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Top 5 Innovative Business Ideas For Civil Engineers

YoungUpstarts

When we talk about a few of the most impactful industries, the construction industry comes at the top. No matter what we do or how bad the economy gets, there will always be a need for housing and that’s not all, there will be a need for more infrastructure too. When we talk about infrastructure, the construction industry has singlehandedly become the biggest contributor when it comes to the overall development of infrastructure.

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The SBA Needs To Get It’s Act Together On The PPP

VC Adventure

The SBA’s implementation of the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) has been a mess. The intention was to provide needed relief to businesses that were impacted economically by the COVID-19 crisis. But, while very well-intentioned, it’s implementation has been flawed. In particular, the SBA has given inconsistent guidance that continues to change and evolve, leaving companies left to wonder if they qualify or not.

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How Your Mindset Has To Evolve To Match The Business

Startup Professionals Musings

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business.

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How To Build Your Brand’s Visibility With Instagram Videos

YoungUpstarts

Whether you’re uploading to your story or on IGTV, Instagram videos are a great way to increase your brand visibility and attract new customers. You can do anything with a video; advertise a product, make the customers laugh, appeal to their emotions, or even partner up with an influencer to get more product exposure. Today, we’re going to cover some tips for increasing your brand’s visibility by using Instagram videos.

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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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Celebrate Governor Polis’s Birthday With Me

Feld Thoughts

On May 14th at 5:30pm, a group of us are going to have a virtual birthday party for Colorado Governor Jared Polis. I’m co-chairing the party with my wife Amy Batchelor, my partner Seth Levine, his wife Greeley Sachs, and our friends Mo and Jennifer Siegel. Congressman Joe Neguse is joining as a special birthday guest as his birthday is the next day.

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How Not to Get Your Time Wasted by VCs

This is going to be BIG.

VCs are notorious for kicking tires. VCs take a meeting just to learn about an area. If deal flow is slow, a VC will take a meeting if you and your team seem mildly interesting even if your product isn’t. Sometimes, if you seem well connected to other founders or VCs, that will get you a meeting—because you don’t want to miss something everyone else has seen.

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How to Run a Small Shop

Women Entrepreneurs Can

In the current business landscape, running a physical shop can be a major undertaking and a real challenge to keep going. With competition online, declining footfall on the high street, and an uncertain economic climate, retailers of bricks and mortar shops have to be more innovative and focused than ever if they want to run a shop that is going to be successful.