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8 Simple Steps to Start an Online Business With No Money

Kodorra

Many people have a presumption that it is difficult to start an online business due to lack of money. However, thanks to economy of scale, prices for online venture necessities like web hosting and Internet data have dwindled significantly. Affordable co-working spaces are expanding across the world and cross-border employment such as freelancing is becoming a norm.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #8: Bootstrap or VC?

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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How To Identify And Solve Customer Pain Points With Greater Efficacy

YoungUpstarts

You can’t grow a startup into a successful organization with a selfish or business-centric mindset. In order to truly thrive, you must adopt a customer-centric mentality that addresses customer pain points in a head-on manner. But before you can do this, you have to know what those pain points are. What are Your Customers’ Pain Points? In the most basic sense of the term, a pain point is a specific problem consumers have in one or more area of their lives.

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UK Property Investment – More Than London

The Startup Magazine

London has long been seen as a great location for property investors from around the world. The capital of England, with its huge population, wealthy residents and thriving industry have made it an ideal location for many prospective property investors, including entrepreneurs. However, in recent years the London property market has been under increasing pressure, with skyrocketing prices and diminishing profit margins from rental yields.

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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 (Licensed) Music Can Increase Overall Productivity In Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Many people believe that the best working environment is noise free and if possible, sound free. Only then are they able to perform at their optimum. There is sense with a work environment with as few distractions as possible but this doesn’t mean being so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Licensed music can be a great way to improve the working conditions of the employees.

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Business Ideas You Can Start Today, By Yourself

The Startup Magazine

Having a business of your own sounds both exciting and overwhelming. The responsibilities that come with a serious business plan might seem scary, but a perfect way to avoid it is to start small. And a side hustle is a great way to start. Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash. If it’s hard for you to determine what businesses are best for starting small, in this article you’ll find more than 10 ideas than you can start today.

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Construct a More Grounded Small Business

The Startup Magazine

Making good use of time in today’s world is something that everyone seems to be struggling with. There are a lot of different time management tools that help track how you use and spend your time. Apps like Harvest can really help track all of your activities down by the minute. The book, I Know How She Does IT , by Laura Vanderkam can really open your eyes on how you’re spending your time, and why.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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Top trends and secrets in the restaurant business

The Startup Magazine

Are you looking for top trends and secrets for your startup restaurant business? Being able to spot the latest restaurant trends is one of the best ways of starting and keeping your restaurant business alive and booming. Photo by Ishan @seefromthesky on Unsplash. As a restaurant owner, you need to identify and adjust to the latest trends in the food industry to ensure that you’re always a step ahead of your competitors.

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Lessons On Startup Success From An Olympic Champion

Startup Professionals Musings

Willingness to take a risk is the hallmark of a serious entrepreneur. That’s why one of the first questions that potential investors ask is “How much of your own money, and friends and family, have you put into the new business?” If you won’t risk yours, you won’t get investors to risk theirs. A while back I read the classic book “ When Turtles Fly ” by Nikki Stone, an Olympic champion, which explains this well.

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How To Cash In On “Cute Culture”

YoungUpstarts

When young business professionals start to think about establishing their business, naturally they will want to approach their start up with maturity. Yet, ‘cute’ doesn’t just sell in Japan, it sells all across the world, especially with the millennial market. Of course, the media will use any excuse to slam millennials in tabloids, and their spending habits are definitely no exception.

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What the World Could Learn from an Internet Blackout in the World’s Most Connected Country

Kodorra

On a fateful Saturday morning of November 24, a fire broke out at Korea Telecom (KT) operation building which caused an Internet blackout in the metropolitan city of Seoul. The disruption lasted more than half a day in multiple districts causing Internet withdrawal havoc within South Korea, popularly known as the world’s most wired country. According to Wikipedia, KT is the largest fixed-line and high-speed Internet service provider in Korea.