Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 29, 2019
Image via Max Pixel Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Yet I find the people building teams are usually product experts, often with no experience in team building.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
Want more traffic to your business’s site? Give your visitors a better experience. Here’s how to improve a website by redesigning the user interface. Your website is your right-hand man for boosting your online marketing efforts. When you have a bad user interface, it can cost you major blows. So how do you improve user experience and make your customers happy?
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Board Effect
MARCH 29, 2019
We rely upon history to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them. The Enron scandal and the other major corporate scandals that followed it taught us many things. Corporate boards have learned that they need to stay on their toes. Boards also learned that fraud and corruption can happen to any company where boards fail to practice good governance.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. As we delve deeper into 2019, the international business environment has changed dramatically with paradigm shifts in trade. NAFTA was replaced with USMCA – a new trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. It remains to be seen which U.S. businesses will be positively or negatively affected.
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
The Next Web
MARCH 29, 2019
There’s little arguing that artificial intelligence is one of the hottest sectors of the tech industry. From recommending personalized content in your YouTube feed to translating text, diagnosing cancer and driving cars, the number of domains that the AI industry is touching is constantly expanding. With so much hype and money surrounding the AI industry, it’s as good a time as any to be an AI company.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
With only 1 in 5 new businesses making it past the 5 year mark in the U.S., it’s vital to have the largest initial investment possible. As an entrepreneur, you already know that unexpected costs can come from any direction when least expected. You may have enough capital to set up your initial business model, but at any time you could need more funds.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
Starting a business is a dream for many. It is, however, difficult to do, with many start-ups failing in the first couple of years. What can you do, though, to have a better outcome for your future business? To ensure you have the best chances possible, the following guide is highlighting the five elements you will need to make your business a success. 1.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 29, 2019
Sunday is the Knoxville Marathon. My plan was to run it, collect the finisher medal that has become part of the marathon ritual, eat whatever I wanted for dinner on Sunday night, and head home Monday morning. Amy and I are heading home today. While some aspects of our week in Knoxville have been good, I came down with a nasty cold early in the week.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
When you first stepped into the world of entrepreneurship, you probably knew that sooner or later you would need to apply for financial credit. Whether it’s a laptop for freelance consulting or a warehouse full of inventory, credit is part and parcel of any business, and it plays an even larger part in your business growth plans. Yet it pays to approach the process carefully.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 29, 2019
Have you ever wondered how to make your Instagram profile SEO-friendly and attract the right followers? Here's a look at 3 simple tips.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
As traditional retail stores continue to close up shop across the nation, business en masse is moving online. Behemoths like Amazon and eBay are increasingly taking the place of Kmarts and Macy’s that we’re used to. Even large retailers like Walmart are ? investing heavily ? in their online presence to compete with the major shift. But large brands like this aren’t the only ones fueling retails’ digital frontier.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
MARCH 29, 2019
Manufacturing is an industry driven by innovation. Growth in manufacturing technology is constantly changing the industry, propelling it forward to meet the demands of a worldwide market. To stay on top, manufactures need to not only adapt to changes, but also position themselves as pioneers of innovative thought and technology. Top manufactures know that this means keeping ahead of industry trends.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
There will come a time in your business – and probably more than one time – when you will have to raise your prices. Increasing supplier costs, increased wages, and the need to make more profit generally will be behind your decision. You should never feel guilty for doing this; it’s your business, and if you want it to make more money then there is no reason why you shouldn’t.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 29, 2019
I get asked fairly regularly for book recommendations. Possibly because I’m always asking other people for their recommendations! Recently a friend asked me to share some books I love for a trip she was taking, and I thought I’d post what I sent her: Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years. This book gives a great inside look into the Obama years…can we go back, please?
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
Your business is doing well and expanding, making it possible for you to increase your output, and maybe even move to a larger location, and that’s great news: All of your hard work is paying off. But with all this growth, you might also run into some challenges. With the current low unemployment rate and hot job market, hiring hardworking employees who have the background and experience required for the job openings you need to fillcan be difficult, especially in industries such as retail and h
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 29, 2019
Have you ever noticed that, in attempting to enhance the available means of communication for your employees, you seem to inadvertently weave an increasingly complex web that your workers are left to untangle? The “paradox of choice”, it seems, can beset even the workplace. As you add more and more apps and services to your firm’s communications palette, you could leave your staff wondering which of them they should choose on what occasion.
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