Mon.Jul 22, 2019

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Nonprofit Policies and Procedures

Board Effect

As new board directors get indoctrinated into their positions, they quickly see how much a nonprofit board of directors handles. The wealth of policies and procedures alone provides many hours of reading material. The benefit of having clear and accessible policies and procedures is that they ensure that everything gets managed consistently. Nonprofit policies and procedures ensure that the organization responds fairly and equitably in all situations.

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Tim Cook - Book Review

deal architect

I read the Leander Kahney book on Tim Cook on the long Emirates flights to and from India. In India, I had a conversation with an Apple consumer like me (not really that knowledgeable about the operations of the company).

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Digital Gold: Why It’s Worth the Effort To Increase Your Business’s Instagram Appeal

YoungUpstarts

As of January 2019, Instagram is used by an average of 500 million Americans each day, according to the data of Statista. Every business owner should recognize the fact that the number represents consumers that could discover and patronize your brand. Using Instagram to boost your business will require your constant commitment to understanding its different trends and features.

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Guide to Amazon’s A9 Algorithm: How to Rank your Listings

The Startup Magazine

We all know how hard it can be to sell a product online. There are just so many people out there looking to do the same thing, and the sheer number of products similar to yours makes it increasingly difficult for people like us to sell anything. This is especially the case on huge websites such as Amazon, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be successful- you just have to know how to get your product out there.

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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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Starting A Travel Website: 7 Practical Tips To Consider

YoungUpstarts

Do you love to travel? What about writing related to it? It is a great idea to start a travel website wherein you will publish posts about your trips. The website will serve as guide to other travelers who are planning to visit places you’ve visited too. This can be a source of extra income so make sure to carefully plan everything before going public.

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How Startups Should Think About Employee Benefits

YFS Magazine

Benefits can be bothersome and expensive for a startup. But it is important to appreciate that a business is only as good as its employees.

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A Guide to Early Fundraising for New Businesses

Up and Running

A telling success factor for new businesses looking to make an impact in their industries is whether they can attract investment at an early stage of development. . Whether you’re a private company looking for venture capitalist funding or a growth-stage company looking to be listed on a public exchange, early investment has proven critical for inspiring further funding in later rounds. .

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Austin-based Homeward Raises $25 Million in Debt and Equity Funding

SiliconHills

A real estate tech startup, Homeward announced on Monday that it has raised $25 million in funding. That includes $4 million in equity funding and $21 million of debt funding. Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners led the equity funding and Genesis Capital and Keystone Bank provided the debt funding. “Founding team members of Opcity, ApartmentList, and […].

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Introducing Techstars Talent

David Cohen

Techstars is always adding to our worldwide network through our accelerators, our community programs, and more. Because we attract such amazing people, our network is basically a giant pool of awesome talent. We launched Techstars Talent because we saw an opportunity to connect every stakeholder in our network with companies they care about. The real reason we’ve created Techstars Talent, of course, is to help entrepreneurs succeed.

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Transformify announces a global partnership with Jobsora

Transformify

Transformify , an award-winning HR Software company providing equal access to jobs and secure payment to everyone regardless of location, race, gender, origin, age or personal situation, announced a global partnership with Jobsora , a job search engine having a global reach. In the past 4 years, Transformify expanded globally and is now trusted by recruiters from 150+ countries.

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13 Important Branding Lessons from the Top 4 E-Commerce Giants

crowdSPRING Blog

Online commerce has taken the world by storm and forever altered the way we do business. Today’s consumers can make purchases from virtually anywhere – as long as they can connect to the internet. And they do. But, that doesn’t mean that all online businesses are created equal. Simply showing up online isn’t enough to guarantee success.

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Monday Motivation: INNER STRENGTH – Powerful Motivational Speech

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Fall still fighting. The more the sun, the more the strength. Figure it out yourself, you’ve got all it takes. You can be great if only you will. You are the handicap you must face. The post Monday Motivation: INNER STRENGTH – Powerful Motivational Speech appeared first on Hearpreneur.

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Construction & Safety: Top Tips To Keep Employees Safe

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It doesn’t matter which field of construction that your business is in, any job in the industry is partnered with a whole host of different risks and potential issues that put your employees right in the center of harm’s way. From falling debris to misusing equipment, many situations within the workplace can put several lives in danger when you fail to take the correct precautionary steps to secure and protect your staff and gain control , so it’s vitally important that you can regul

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Buyer’s Agents vs Seller’s Agents

Our Own Start-up

What are the other differences between a buyer’s agent and a seller’s agent?

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Mobile App Chat

Women Entrepreneurs Can

App development can be split into two general categories – enterprise apps and consumer apps. In this post, we are going to take a look at the latter. Consumer apps are, of course, designed with your customers in mind. Read on to discover the reasons to consider investing in this type of app for your business. There are many reasons why you should consider investing in the services of one of the leading app development firms.

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9 Ways to Use Pull Marketing When Push Doesn’t Work

Startup Professionals Musings

More and more customers these days are doing their own marketing research, scanning internet reviews and feedback from friends, rather than trusting messages that you push out through advertising. This is called inbound marketing, where customers are pulled to you, rather than feeling accosted at every turn by your brand messages via email, newspapers and television.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Making Your Business More Profitable

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you want your business to be more profitable then you have to make all the right decisions. You also need to budget too, and this can be difficult if you’re navigating brand new territory. Don’t Spend too Much Time on Activities That Don’t Generate Money. You know what your time is worth. If you’re wasting your time with accounting or even with answering customer enquiries all the time, then this won’t be doing your business any favours.

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Are You Making The Single Worst Brand-Building Mistake A Company Can Make? 

YoungUpstarts

by Lindsay Pedersen, author of “ Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide “ In late 2008, Seattle’s adored Washington Mutual Bank (known locally and affectionately as WaMu) failed and was subsumed in a shotgun wedding with Chase Bank. Seattleites were reeling in the early days of the Great Recession, and WaMu’s going under was salt in that raw wound as they watched thousands of friends, family members, neighbors, and colleagues get laid off.

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Is Temperature Sexism Thawing Your Office Environment?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As a woman in the working world, you know full well some of the female workplace struggles. While sexism has come on leaps and bounds, there’s simply no denying that we still have a long way to go. Women still struggle to get their voices heard in the boardroom , for instance. More recently, we’re realizing that even office temperatures have a touch of sexism behind them.

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