Thu.Dec 12, 2019

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Here’s How Conducting Online Surveys Benefits An Organization

YoungUpstarts

With the rise in the usage of digital media, businesses have shifted to online portals. This has created an enormous space for quick market research and survey, with larger sample sizes. Every organization is now strengthening its online presence and using surveys as an essential means of gathering user reviews and views. Here is how and why you should also get started.

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What to look for in a payroll service

NZ Entrepreneur

Payroll is a big part of any business. It includes every employee, from paying and recording their salary or wages to calculating bonuses, benefits, deductions, taxes, and leave. It starts on the first day of employment and can continue after a person leaves, with the calculation of notice entitlement and your legal obligation to keep records. In most companies, payroll is one of (if not the) largest expenditure item and it’s every company’s responsibility to ensure it’s done c

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How To Avoid The Risks Of Bitcoin Trading

YoungUpstarts

Digital currency is the future of next generation. Trading and doing business online and doing business online is future. Bitcoin, Libra, ripple, Altcoin, Litcoin are some of the digital currencies were popular among people and people are today more interested in investing in these digital currencies as compared to the stock-market. So, it will be no shock if crypto-currency replaces the government backed paper currency one day.

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The Evolution of SAP Analytics

deal architect

I had been invited to an SAP Analytics influencer summit earlier in the year. Many of the sessions were under NDA, so I had not written about it. However, my notes showed: Ambitious, exciting vision, but fragmented execution across portfolio.

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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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Workplace Flexibility Boosts Remote Teams’ Loyalty

Transformify

Our guest today is Chris Lacinak, President of AVP. Chris, many software companies work on a project basis. Is this why you decided to introduce remote work at AVP? Remote work initially came about at AVP in a couple of different ways that were the result of seizing the opportunity. The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City.

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Why Businesses Should Offer Healthcare Benefits

YoungUpstarts

Health Insurance is now required by law for individuals. Larger companies are also legally obligated to carry health insurance for their employees. However, businesses with under 50 employees don’t have to offer health insurance. Many choose to anyway. 25% of small businesses offer health insurance, and another 22% plan to offer it in the next year.

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How To Gain Buy-In To Your Company’s Cultural Transformation

YoungUpstarts

by Colin D Ellis, author of “ Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work “ . Organizational leaders talk about culture transformation as a critical strategy for giving them a competitive edge. Yet, they look for every possible way to avoid addressing culture change because it involves risk, time and money. Research shows that a massive 92 percent of senior executives cite culture as a critical driver to their companies, yet only 16 percent said their culture is “where it shou

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Bringing The Helium Network to Boulder

Feld Thoughts

My partners at Foundry Group have decided to bring the Helium Network to Boulder. We’ve ordered 50 hotspots and, with your help, will set up a LongFi network throughout Boulder. If you are asking, “What’s Helium?” here’s a fun video to get you started along with a deeper explanation of the technology. As an LP in USV, we are small indirect investors.

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These Three Simple Steps Can Help Make Sense Of Things After A Wrongful Job Termination

YoungUpstarts

Practically any employee who has lost a job for a reason he or she feels is unfair can relate to the feeling of confusion and helplessness that can accompany such a situation. The loss of income is frustrating enough, but the added stress of looking for another position while processing the entire ordeal can really disrupt anyone’s life. While the steps outlined below will not instantly clear up all of this uncertainty, they can go a long way toward restoring some sense of normalcy to what

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Sana Benefits is Disrupting the Healthcare Insurance Industry in Texas

SiliconHills

Sana Benefits moved to Austin a year ago from the San Francisco Bay area with a focus on disrupting the insurance industry and providing healthcare coverage for small to medium-sized businesses. “We had this idea for how to fix small business health insurance and the barriers to starting it California were really high,” said Will […]. The post Sana Benefits is Disrupting the Healthcare Insurance Industry in Texas appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Sales Training As An Essential Investment

YoungUpstarts

The competition in the business environment today requires skilled staff to help sustain your customers. You have to use unique business strategies to remain above the competition. Studies have shown the ability of a salesperson to influence clients to buy products and services in a B2B environment. Investing in sales training is an effective way to ensure your company is not only growing, but also maintaining its status.

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5 Tips To Deal With Negative Customer Reviews

YFS Magazine

If you think that negative reviews are dangerous, you’re right. However, if you think every negative review is a lost battle, there's good news.

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Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future

Ben's Blog

Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives–and this is just the beginning. In this conversation from our 2019 Summit, Kevin Kelly (Founding Executive Editor, WIRED magazine) … The post Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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How OKR’s Completely Transformed Our Culture

ReadWriteStart

Any business owner will tell you there is a massive chasm between “concept” and “execution.” More than half of the time, business owners and entrepreneurs will come up with amazing concepts — foolproof plans. And more than half of the time, it’s the execution phase that kills them. Here’s how OKR’s completely transformed our culture.

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The ATAR Disaster

Start Up Blog

I was once invited into a major university to lead a discussion on the Future of Education. I was excited by the prospect of exploring deeply and honestly what higher education is really for, and how it should look in the future. Ironically, I almost go chased out of the room by the same academics who invited me to challenge them. The short version of the story goes like this: We started out by first workshopping what education was for.

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Grit

OnlyOnce

I was honored this week to be in a small group “fireside chat” with Angela Duckworth, author of the book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance , and to meet her and ask a question during an internal presentation at LRN. The session was also webcast, and you can look at the recording here. It’s long, but if you’re in the topic, it’s worth seeing.

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Let’s talk about your banking relationship

Berkonomics

The warning is real. You’ve heard the old one – that a banker always seems willing to offer a loan when you don’t need it. For small businesses, there is such truth in that statement that you can trust the story to be based as fact from experience. Exceptions and good reasons to work on them. There are great exceptions for growing businesses and for businesses that have a track record with a banker.

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Three days of massive progress

Jeff Hilimire

There are always pivotal moments in life where you have meeting, do a thing, have an idea, that create meaningful momentum against your goals. You can always sense it afterwards, realizing that you’ve made a major impact on your ability to succeed. The last three days (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week) I had one big moment after another, most of which set the stage for the next several years.

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3 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Workplace Innovation

YFS Magazine

Will you settle for an obedient workforce or shift to a more collaborative one? Your answer determines the rate of business growth in years to come.

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Which Metrics Should You Collect for Social Media Campaign Success?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Social media is a relatively new form of marketing that offers businesses practically unlimited potential. But knowing which metrics to track (and to what end) can be a challenge. In this post, we’re going to take a look at all of the stats you’ll want to populate your social media dashboard. Check out the following: Click Rates. Click rates measure the number of clicks that your posts or paid ads receive.

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No Vision, All Drive – updated!

David Cohen

This fall, the newest edition of No Vision All Drive by David Brown, my co-Founder and (now) CEO of Techstars was released. As I read the new book, I am again reminded of the times David and I shared building our first company, Pinpoint Technologies. It’s tough to find honest, concise recollections of the entrepreneurial journey, yet No Vision All Drive provides just that.

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Experts Are the Answer to Your Business Troubles

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you become an entrepreneur, there is suddenly a lot of pressure to perform. You need to be at the top of your game all the time and have the answers to every question thrown in your vague direction. But this doesn’t mean that you are the only person you can rely on. If you understand that business is more like a web than a hierarchy, you will find it a lot easier to ask for and receive the help you need to make your business work.

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The world of B2B marketing

Our Own Start-up

The world of marketing had surpassed the technology of days of long ago when groups of people were hired to ‘spread the word’ about a company’s product.

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Prevent Legal Trouble for Your Business: Keep It Safe

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you have business premises that are frequented by either your staff, customers or both, you need to keep it safe. If someone were to get hurt on your business’s property, you could be in big legal trouble. Of course, having the right insurance can help to protect you, but not even that will help you out in every situation. It’s still up to you to do your best to protect anyone who comes onto your premises to prevent them from getting hurt.

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Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

Credit: Jonathan Sprague / Redux Pictures. Silicon Valley can frequently be too provincial in its views of entrepreneurship, strategy, and markets. Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.

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