Wed.May 20, 2020

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A Bigger Truth About Restaurant Food Delivery

Both Sides of the Table

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash I was listening to Dan Primack’s podcast on Pro Rata and he was interviewing Senator Klobucher who is now publicly and vocally speaking out against Uber purchasing Grubhub and has tried to mobilize against this. Her argument is that if Uber buys Grubhub (which itself once merged with Seamless) it would mean that Uber Eats / Grubhub would control half the market and that with DoorDash the two together would control 90% of the market.

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. The assumption was that online platforms would completely automate all supplier-customer transactions including retailing, wholesaling, and procurement. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. Alibaba is an exception.

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How a Business Should Handle Covid-19 Robocalls

The Startup Magazine

Scammer and scam organizations are currently using Covid-19 and the uncertainty of our economy to prey upon the fears of the public for profit. The Lawyers of Distinction teams, along with our members, have received a variety of different robocall scams and we will dissect a few of the most common ones to help you respond should you find your business receiving such a call.

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10 Traits Demonstrate Entrepreneur Character Strength

Startup Professionals Musings

As I was watching the investor show, Shark Tank , on TV the other night, I was struck by how quickly and how extensively the sharks focused on the background and character of the entrepreneurs, compared to time spent evaluating their products. I realized it was consistent with my own view as a former angel investor, that investors invest in you, more than your solution.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Is an online bingo site startup still a viable business option?

The Startup Magazine

It’s been a tumultuous couple of years for the gambling industry. First of all it had to contend with the introduction of tighter regulations. Then there was the COVID-19 outbreak. Without wanting to be too indelicate, casino and bingo site businesses have experienced a boom in terms of player numbers due to the lockdown – people clearly have more time on their hands.

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New Normal: Conversation with Dean Daniel Pullin of TCU

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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New Normal: Conversation with Sanjay Poonen of VMware

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Up With Changing Regulations

YoungUpstarts

by Kelvin Simmons , a partner at Nexus Group. The modern tech leader will encounter his or her share of proverbial hoops and barriers. Whether it’s the development process, staffing, or another variable, your can’t-miss startup solution will probably face an obstacle or two on its way to viability. Regulation is one issue that looms exceptionally large for tech entrepreneurs.

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New Normal: Conversation with Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh of Salesforce

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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Build Your IT Career On An ITIL Foundation

YoungUpstarts

To run things evenly, practically every business pins their hopes on a team of IT professionals. The best way is to build your IT career on an ITIL foundation. It is perfect for you if you are willing to make your career in the IT service management sector. About the same, IT services are in other words, IT activities. The ones, that achieve business advantage to a company’s clients and other internal or external stakeholders.

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How to Choose the Right Company to Help Manage Your Data

The Startup Magazine

Data quality management is hugely important in today’s business world. When data is poorly managed, it can lead to financial losses, wasted employee productivity, and a loss of the company’s reputation. It makes sense that every company needs someone to help with their data management strategy and operation. For recommendations about a Master Data Management provider, Gartner MDM rankings can provide useful analysis.

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Working Remotely – Extending WFH

VC Adventure

A few weeks ago, I posted that Foundry had made the decision to remain out of the office until at least June 1st. We’re fortunate that we’re in the position to work effectively this way – because of the kind of work we do and the way our company is set up (not to mention that we’re a team of 14). While we miss seeing each other, we felt it was safer to keep everyone at home.

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Balancing out the macro and micro influencers

The Startup Magazine

Getting your brand out to clients has always been one of the main challenges of a marketing team. With the advent of social media, however, influencers have taken that mantle with their large spread of daily followers. These individuals have normally created a particular profile through their own making on social media platforms or via their talent elsewhere.

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Generating referrals is your highest payoff activity right now

Duct Tape Marketing

Generating referrals is your highest payoff activity right now written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Many businesses have been displaced during this game-changing pandemic. I hope that you are not one of them. One of the things, however, that few people are talking about is that the massive changes being experienced by businesses are also being experienced by customers.

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Female Founder Interview: Melissa Kehl and Office Design and Manufacturing

The Startup Magazine

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series. We interviewed Ms. Melissa Kehl, President/Owner of Reike Office Interiors. Her early challenges and inspiring successes provided her with a unique set of tools and insights that she uses to grow her business and adapt with new business ideas, especially in this current coronavirus-focused environment.

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Our Own Start-up

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$100,000 Department of Defense Human Performance Investment Challenge

Austin Startup

Soft Exosuit from Harvard Biodesign Lab Capital Factory is pleased to announce the $100,000 Human Performance Investment Challenge focused on startups whose technologies leverage hardware and/or software solutions to enhance physical or cognitive capabilities. The Investment challenge will occur on July 15, at the first annual Fed Supernova which will be a fully virtual experience in partnership with the Army Futures Command’s Innovation Combine and xTechSearch programs.

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How to Use Virtual Technology to Stay Connected with Your Customers

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Though many places are beginning to ease their shelter-at-home restrictions, it’s still going to be quite some time before in-person business-customer relationships are back to normal. In order to make sure your customers are staying interested and invested in your brand, you’ll need to pivot to remote check-ins and a strong, creative online presence.

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TT vs YT: TikTok facing the wrath, ratings drop drastically after YouTuber Carry Minati’s viral video

Our Own Start-up

TikTok Lite has been exposed even more with the rating dropping to 1.1 on the play store. Even, the ByteDance-owned platform is also criticised rigorously for its weak content moderation policies that allows sharing of harmful and abusive videos. many of the TikTok influencers have Initiated an outrage for social media users for promoting problematic contents.

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On-SERP SEO: The Future of SEO

ConversionXL

The SEO game is changing. Long gone are the days when all it took to rank on Page 1 was a good keyword choice and a few backlinks. Google’s search results are becoming so much more than 10 blue links, in part because those links are now richer and more interactive —and sending fewer clicks to sites. A new concept is replacing the traditional SEO approach.

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After tie up with Spencer, Flipkart joins hand with Vishal Mega Mart amid Coronavirus

Our Own Start-up

Flipkart, India's leading e-commerce marketplace, aims to boost its scope of offerings in the pandemic situation. Hence, this is the second such partnership of it.

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