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5 Risks You As A Consultant Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

Consultancy is a career option for professionals in a wide range of industries – marketing, finance, accountancy, architecture, business management, the list goes on. It’s a good idea to back up all documents, for example by using an external drive or cloud software. by Erin Yurday, CEO, Co-founder and Editor of NimbleFins.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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4 Things I’ve Learned As An Entrepreneur Right Out Of College

Up and Running

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. More often than not, whatever it is you are building will require a complementary skill set, whether that’s business/finance, sales/marketing, or design/engineering. It’s not just startups.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g. However each component will change dramatically.

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10 Characteristics of Successful Board Relationships

Board Effect

High-quality board directors are willing and able to serve in specialized roles, such as succession planning, finance, fundraising and communications, as needed. Taking it a step further, they need to be able to review their results objectively and to make decisions based on the results. The board chair should be selected carefully.

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Demystifying the Various Tax Exemptions: 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4)

Board Effect

IRS tax code. Community associations that are dedicated to preserving the community traditions, architecture, and appearance and representing such interests before authorities in matters related to zoning, traffic, and parking. 501(c)(16) Cooperative organizations to finance crop operations. 501(c)(13) Cemetery companies.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences.

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