Board Effect

OCTOBER 4, 2019

A nonprofit executive director is usually one of the most influential people in a nonprofit organization. The executive director is instrumental in shaping the culture of the organization. Also, the executive director serves as the public face of the organization. These are issues that make their shoes not so easy to fill. An executive director transition plan outlines how to fill the executive director role for planned and unplanned departures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. What does it take to get to that level?

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deal architect

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As I was filing our quarterly Form 941 last week, it hit me that we have entered the last quarter of this decade. As I flew into LaGuardia on Monday, it took me back two decades to my time at.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In 2011, my now-partner Chris Moody (and then-CEO of Gnip, which I was on the board of) kicked my butt about my endless statements about hating marketing. His thoughts on recasting “marketing” as “thought leadership” appeared on this blog in a post I Don’t Hate Marketing. It remains a great example of one of the reasons I blog, which is to think out loud, get feedback, learn, and iterate.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2019

When you’re a young entrepreneur, the launch of your start-up often depends on whether you can get funding from an investor. However, it can be difficult to get investors to take you seriously when you’re young and perhaps don’t have much experience in your industry. It’s important to be well prepared for investor meetings and presentations, so here are some tips on how to impress. 1.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Adam and I celebrating the completion of our first 48in48 London event with a few pints :). I can hardly believe it, but tonight is the 5th year of 48in48 ! Early in 2015, Adam and I hatched a plan to put on a hackathon at Ponce City Market to try to build 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours with 100 or so of our local Atlanta marketing friends. Fast-forward to today, and the organization (48in48 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a two-person full time staff – both of which are rockstars!

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Business coaches are instrumental people in the start and growth of one’s business. Right from writing your story, attracting/retaining clients and the survival of your business. They can help sharpen your skills and take up a lot more roles. Many entrepreneurs attribute their success to the mere factor that they had a business coach guide them through the process.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2019

There are a lot of ways you could get into trouble financially, but one of the most difficult to recover from is credit card debt. With its common high interest rates, anyone who uses them and doesn’t pay off the balance within the initial thirty days could find themselves struggling. On average, Americans use of credit cards has tripled in the past twenty years, with charges totaling into the trillions of dollars.

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Our Own Start-up

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Verifying the legitimacy of these loan companies can be challenging, especially with the rise of made-up testimonials and sleek-looking advertisements.

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