Thu.Nov 08, 2018

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Health Care Entrepreneurs: Why you need Medical Indemnity Insurance

The Startup Magazine

Nearly all health care providers are entrepreneurs. As a surgeon or other provider, your job can be very stressful and challenging so it is important that you know what you are doing. Of course, as it is for any entrepreneur , there are always times when things don’t go completely according to plan and you need to deal with the consequences. To help you protect yourself and your profession against any sort of issues that you might come across, you should think about getting some medical indemni

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Money is not the only measure of success.

Berkonomics

I am sure you heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs that motivate our behavior, in which Abraham Maslow laid out a human’s needs – from the physiological, to safety, then love and belonging, on to esteem and finally self-actualization. A little too esoteric for you? Let’s make it more personal. So, where are you in that hierarchy? Let’s assume for a minute that you have just sold your business, or come into money beyond your current needs….

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5 Things To Look For In A High-End Supplier

YoungUpstarts

No business works without competent suppliers to keep the firm fuelled. This might be as fundamental as the electricity provided to a building, but of course is mostly emphasized with stock ingredient deliveries, tech suppliers and even your food inventory for the daily canteen operation. However, some suppliers are perhaps more valuable to your firm than others.

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5 Tips for Starting a Successful Clothing Brand: The Definitive Guide (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Many people want to start a clothing brand or clothing line. After all, how difficult could it be? The truth is that successful clothing brands become successful in part because they’re created by people who are passionate about clothing. But, a clothing brand needs more than just exquisite apparel design to create a lasting business. It needs all the trappings of a successful business as well.

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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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Startup Opportunity: Volvo iLabX Accelerator – Capital and Mentors

The Startup Magazine

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting Volvo Financial Services in its launch of its iLabX global innovation program for technology entrepreneurs. We encourage all startups to consider applying to this rewarding startup accelerator. Corporate accelerators are one of the best ways for startups to access capital, advice, and markets. iLabX Technology Accelerator.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Best startup city rankings have reflected this truth for a long time. But this is becoming less true today, as more and more entrepreneurs find their way across the U.S.

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The Secrets Of Successful Growth Behind YourParkingSpace

YoungUpstarts

by Charles Cridland, Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace. YourParkingSpace almost didn’t take off. The company began from my bedroom, back in 2006. It didn’t take a pound in revenue for seven years. During its infancy, YourParkingSpace was just a website that put drivers in touch with homeowners who had empty driveways and garages.

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A conversation about diversity, inclusion, and design with Lean Startup Conference 2018 speaker Liz Jackson

Startup Lessons Learned

Ragen Chastain, our Inclusion and Accessibility Manager for this year's Lean Startup Conference , spoke recently with Liz Jackson , an advocate and consultant and founder of The Disabled List , who will be presenting at the conference on Designing with Disability. We created Ragen’s role to further our long-standing efforts to make sure the conference is open to all.

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Voice Search Strategy: Surviving (and Thriving) in Ecommerce and B2B

ConversionXL

Earlier this year, at CXL Live , you asked us about voice search (a lot). More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? How will voice search work given the human urge to shop around? Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? This post has answers. They range from straightforward technical optimizations to complex, long-term efforts to differentiate through a superior consumer experience.

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Startup Culture: The Benefits and Challenges of a Remote Workforce

Transformify

The digital revolution will continue to transform the way we work. It’s brought people closer together, and it’s made it far easier for businesses to understand themselves and their target audiences. And it’s also helped usher in a new era where remote and freelance work are now mainstream. And it appears this shift towards working out of the office is going to continue.

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37 Websites with Amazing Free Stock Photos and Images

Kodorra

Finding good and free images is not as hard as it used to be, if you know where to look. Here are some great free stock photo sites divided between 100% free photos under the Creative Commons (CCO) license (free as long you don’t say the photos are yours) and those under different Creative Commons licenses (usually they just want you to give them credit, that’s all).

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Why Cloud-Based Desktops Can Be Safer Than The One You’re Sitting At

YoungUpstarts

by Robin Hau , founder and CEO of SimplyClouds. According to RightScale’s 2018 “State of the Cloud Report,” a staggering 96 percent of respondents report some reliance on the cloud. Cloud-hosted platforms are powerful and reliable, and they untether you from your office system and allow access to applications and files from any device and location.

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Juice Your Startup’s Marketing Plan: Wow (and Convert) Prospects

The Startup Magazine

What’s your startup’s promotion plan? Your new company certainly won’t get much mileage from a tired marketing plan that plugs away at the same old strategies month after month after month, hoping against hope for a better result. Source: Pexels. You can effectively market your startup without breaking the bank, provided you’re willing to think outside the box.

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A Starter’s Guide To Launching An Online Business

YoungUpstarts

While budding entrepreneurs might be filled with ambition and many unique ideas about their products, brand, and services, they might lack the knowledge and experience to successfully execute a new business online. Get off to the best possible start by embarking on the following sequence of steps, which will ensure your new venture is a roaring success.

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Our careers as projecteers

Start Up Blog

The riskiest career choice of the future will be to have a single job. When we have a job, we not only have 100% of our cashflow linked to a single customer (employer), we see less of the changing world. For the best part of 200 years – craftspeople, artisans and farmers couldn’t compete against the industrialisation of pretty much anything.

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2018 Logo Design Trends: Your Guide to Navigate Hot Trends and Avoid Fads

crowdSPRING Blog

Logo design with bright colors, creative typography, and signage mock-up by zeste/crowdspring. Small businesses and startups have to compete in an increasingly noisy world, often against large, dominant businesses. Customers who are just discovering your brand need something to remember you by, and your logo serves as a symbol of your business. A great logo will help boost your marketing.

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