Thu.Nov 12, 2020

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Why Startups Are Ready For A Reboot

YoungUpstarts

The pandemic has caused a severe downturn in global economies. Yet despite the overarching negative outlook, startups seem to be weathering the storm. Quartz mentions that startups seem to be dealing with the pressures of the pandemic far more effectively than larger businesses and conglomerates. Much of this success is due to the flexibility of startups and their ability to adapt.

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New Normal: A conversation with Dr. Patti Fletcher and Grant Beckett of Workhuman

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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How To Market Your Independent Store During Covid-19

YoungUpstarts

Independent stores have been hit hard by the pandemic. Lockdown restrictions and social distancing guidelines have led to a loss of customers. However, some stores have found creative ways to get around this, including adopting new marketing strategies. Below are just some of the most effective ways to market your independent store during the pandemic.

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University credit and talent for Techstars alumni

David Cohen

Today, Techstars announced something really interesting – a partnership with leading educational institutions (so far this includes The University of Colorado and Northeastern University) to offer Techstars accelerator alumni instant credit towards degree programs at those universities. Think of it as a head start on an MBA or other degree, based on the direct experience gained from having started a company as part of a Techstars accelerator.

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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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How To Launch A Successful Marketing Company

YoungUpstarts

If you have the gift of the gab and the desire to help other businesses achieve their goals, it could prove to be the ideal time to set up your own marketing business. However, as you will already probably be aware, this is a highly competitive field and not one that you can achieve success in easily. Therefore, you need to make a special effort to get your business right from the start.

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Rebound out of COVID-19

Start Up Blog

I’m pretty excited! My new TV show ‘The Rebound’ goes to air nationally tomorrow, Saturday the 14th at 12.30pm on Channel Nine. In short, the show is all about helping Australian businesses bounce back. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, freelancer, corporate climber or run a business, it’s jam-packed with useful hacks to get you on the fast track.

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Transform Your Image: Men With Perfect Jawlines Swear By This Product

YFS Magazine

In today's personal branding and selfie culture, let's face it –– appearances are a big part of your personal brand.

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Building Better Culture

Mike Michalowicz

How are you motivating your team and maintaining healthy work culture in our current environment? With half of the workforce in the US working from home, you would think attention to work culture would be on the back burner, since face to face interaction is decreased. Not here! I gotta say, we are winning when it comes to the work culture thing. We were before this pandemic, and we are now.

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Never Become The Person Your Twitter Followers Want You To Be

Hunter Walker

Something happens on Twitter after you’ve gathered enough followers to become at least a “semi-public figure” and I don’t think it’s healthy. Expanding outside your immediate social circle of IRL friends and into URL friends tends to include what I’d call “tribe followers” — an increase in the number of people who are expecting a certain type and tone of content in-line with whatever the tweet was that caused them to follow you.

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Meet Our Mission Driven Founders

Version One Ventures

In recent posts, we’ve outlined our updated thesis around backing mission driven founders and explained why we’ve doubled down on searching for such entrepreneurs. There is no substitute, however, for letting these exceptional founders speak for themselves. In that spirit, please see the short video below highlighting a handful of our newest mission driven founders from Fund III.

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Create a great product – the three-step dance method

Berkonomics

Can you create a product in a vacuum? Creating a new product in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that you know what’s best for the customer, perhaps even without interaction with such a customer. It’s probably happened, but not often enough to trust this method as a formula for success. The three-step dance method. So, I’ve developed the three-step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea.

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How AI Tools Can Help You Optimize Your Marketing Budget

Up and Running

For many small businesses, determining your marketing budget is likely an afterthought. Actually spending money on advertising or other marketing costs can feel daunting and fruitless, especially when first starting out. But brand exposure and strategic targeting are crucial first steps for growth , meaning it’s better to outline your marketing budget earlier rather than later.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and (Some) Marketing Statistics

ConversionXL

One of the most challenging parts of producing high-quality content is finding and sourcing accurate statistics and research. You’ll often go down the sourcing rabbit hole only to discover that a statistic is from 2012 or that the study’s sample size consisted of just a few people—and that’s only after you make an effort to dig deeper.

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