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8 Software Small Businesses Should Check Out For Efficiency

The Startup Magazine

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, small businesses face the ongoing challenge of streamlining operations, maximizing productivity, and staying competitive. Image Source Gone are the days when small businesses had to rely on manual processes and spreadsheets to manage their operations.

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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

Although it’s tempting to blame it all on the coronavirus situation and its formidable ripples, the pandemic only accelerated the processes of globalization and digitization that have been underway for decades. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. The world of work is transforming.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. But unlike some other categories of commerce, I’m not convinced Amazon is the ultimate winner here. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. American Apparel.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

Up and Running

With the rise of new cannabis companies, it is important to differentiate your cannabis company from the competition, whether you are opening a farm, extraction operation, or dispensary. The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy. Your operations plan. Operations. Extraction operations?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

Nonprofits are certainly social enterprises, but many for-profit companies fall into this category by making the conscious decision to have their focus be an altruistic cause, rather than the maximization of profits. A social enterprise is defined by its mission, specifically that it makes a positive contribution to a social cause.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.