Wed.Nov 11, 2020

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5 Things You Need To Know To Successfully Manage A Remote Team

YoungUpstarts

by Matt Martin, Co-Founder and CEO of Clockwise. Morale has dipped during COVID-19. We’re separated from our friends, families, and colleagues but busier than ever. The majority of workers are reporting higher stress, greater anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. Employers have a responsibility to help workers get through this. Here are five ways to successfully manage a remote team.

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Nonprofit Board Video Conference Etiquette

Board Effect

The ongoing pandemic is making video conferencing a necessary component of nonprofit leadership for the foreseeable future. Videoconference technology can keep your board safe and connected, which is vitally important to keeping your nonprofit strong and sustainable during these challenging times. As of March 2020, Zoom reports serving 200 million meeting participants, and that number grew to 300 million in April.

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5 Steps To Successful Technology Adoption

YoungUpstarts

The decision to adopt new technology is a big step for any business. It means shaking things up and changing the way you work. There are usually very good reasons to adopt a new system. Perhaps it will improve the efficiency of your outdated systems, provide a new source of leads, or protect your company’s data against cybersecurity risks. But whatever your reasons, there will always be hurdles to overcome before you can seamlessly integrate this new technology into your business operations.

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7 Entrepreneur Stages Help You Assess Your Progress

Startup Professionals Musings

The road to becoming an entrepreneur is a journey , and it’s not a short trip. In my efforts of assist aspiring business owners like you, I find that too many see it as a short sprint to get over that one hurdle, like finding that innovative idea, or attracting an investor. In reality, I find that there are multiple stages to the process, each requiring a unique mindset and focused effort along the way.

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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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Are Silver Backed Stablecoins A Safe Investment?

YoungUpstarts

A stablecoin backed by silver offers unique opportunities for investors looking to diversify their portfolios. Because of the unique attributes of stablecoins combined with the long history of Silver as an important metal and safe haven asset, a stablecoin that is pegged to silver can provide a new layer of security when investing today. This year, just like during previous economic downturns, interest in silver investments has grown significantly.

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How To Find A Business Idea In The Pandemic

The Startup Magazine

With the economy looking like it’ll be suffering for at least the next few years, this may be the perfect juncture to find a business idea that you can market. Business Insider reports that chain restaurants across the country are closing more than 1800 outlets. Some companies, most noticeably providers of storage pods and smaller, more agile enterprises can change their business model and adapt to the changing economy.

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You’ve Got This

Mike Michalowicz

Look at our girl Kasey Compton and her group of positive people at KC Consulting ! This is what I’m talking about! Since we met, Kasey has always exuded an authentic kindness that I admire, and I love that she’s got her team in on this t-shirt situation! So, I’m, a cool vest wearing gent, at the same time, I love a good, fun t-shirt.

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The Future Of Your Organization Is Now: How Your Leadership In The Next Three Months Will Determine Your Impact In The Next Three Years

YoungUpstarts

by Dan Bruder, author of “ The Blendification System: Activating Potential by Connecting Culture, Strategy, and Execution “ Businesses have experienced one of the most dramatic shifts in history over just a few months in 2020. While many leaders are hoping that the market and economy will return to their pre-COVID-19 state, it is likely many of the factors we’re experiencing now will remain and potentially accelerate.

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How to Create Systems and Increase Profits in 5 Steps

Mike Michalowicz

You can’t grow your business without systems. Systems are how you scale business. Systems allow your business to run smoothly. They do the work for you. If you have your systems in place, your business will be more streamlined and more productive. The results? More profit. Oh, now I have your attention! With systems doing the work for you, not only are you a smarter entrepreneur, you will have more time to focus on your vision (and of course, building yet more systems to streamline your p

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Save Money For Your Business – Use A Smart Thermostat

YoungUpstarts

Isn’t it immensely fulfilling to run a micro business? While in a bid to offer the best in the community and contributing to the economic growth, there’s often a significant menace that threatens the micro enterprise’s survival. High energy cost is not only frustrating but also eats into the business revenue and profits. That’s why it’s essential to think of smart technology in a small business.

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The Laws of Attraction

Mike Michalowicz

It’s not a new concept but dang, does it sound fresh in this podcast ! If you equate money with happiness, David Meltzer has news for you. David had enjoyed all the elements of success, but found he was completely unfulfilled and unhappy. Now he shares how The Laws of Attraction, including gratitude, forgiveness, accountability and understanding opened the door to abundance.

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Starting A Business From Your Bedroom: What You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business from the comfort of your bedroom is an exciting period of growth, personally and professionally. You’ll be calling all the shots, giving yourself a more flexible lifestyle and doing it on your terms – so here’s our top advice that you’ll need to know when starting a bedroom business. Keep your space separate and organised. First of all, make your bed.

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Freelancer's Guide: What business expenses can you claim as a self-employed person in the UK?

Transformify

If you're self-employed, you have to submit a self-assessment tax return to HMRC every year to make sure you pay the right tax. You only have to pay tax on the profit that your business makes, not your total earnings. To calculate this, just deduct your business expenses from self-employed income. You can also claim a discount on the money you have invested in the tools needed to run your business known as capital allowances.

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The various ways in which getting Solar Energy can help you

Our Own Start-up

It has become very important to be energy conscious and save our environment. That is why people are nowadays preferring to switch to renewable energies.

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The 1 lakh cr Snacks and Sweets industry in India

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we take a look at the Mithai and Namkeen, aka. Snacks and Sweets industry in India. We.

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How shoppable images can increase your brand’s festive sales

Our Own Start-up

Shoppable images are the social shoppable posts with pictures that offer the consumers a direct opportunity to buy a product with just a few clicks.

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Exciting Business Pallet Ideas You Can Explore

YoungUpstarts

Do you intend to start a pallet business? You need to understand a few things about this industry and how to begin. The plain pallets plastic pallets industry is a viable business that can be profitable if approached correctly. There are several pallet buyers around the world because pallets are used in almost every single business. Therefore, if you get into this niche, you may be sure that your business will last because this industry isn’t likely to fall any time soon.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal

Steve Blank

We just held our eleventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Military Applications of Cyber.