The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The value of mentors has been flaunted the world over and with excellent reason. They are the gateway to making it as a business as they share their experience and networks. Their wealth of knowledge is fundamental in the initial stages of a startup as they act as the winch that pulls out of murky waters that plague new businesses. However, even with their undeniable benefits, we forget that we too are tasked with passing on the help we gained and continue to learn.

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Networking Technical Review Operations Startup 82

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

An essential part of the hiring process for any company are reference checks. They are a great way to get some context on a potential employee and hear from people they have worked for, with, and around over an extended period of time. The typical process is to ask for 3 references that can speak on someones behalf they they supply that they have worked directly with.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Should You Allow Board Observers on Your Startup Board? Photo by Antenna on Unsplash A board observer is somebody who attends your board meeting but doesn’t have a voting right. There are also certain points in a board meeting where you can ask the board observers to step out of the room unless they’ve negotiated specific rights that preclude this.

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Strategic Investors Startup Stock Options Venture Capital 255

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Regardless of the niche, nature of commercial activity, budget and other concerns, websites will have to focus on SEO, or Search engine optimisation to remain visible and accessible to the target audience. When you want to generate revenue from your website, being positioned on SERPs is necessary, and that’s exactly what SEO is all about. In association with Moon Marketing , we are decoding the most important SEO trends you need to watch in 2019 and how to adapt to each like a pro. 1.

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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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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

According to Census data reported by Quartz at Work , a home office was the principal place of business for about 5.2% of U.S. workers in 2017, up from just over 3% in 2000. Meanwhile, a Gallup survey using a far less strict definition of working from home found that nearly half of all American workers spent some time working remotely from their residences. .

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

When people think about merchandising, images of a product that has been oversold quickly come to mind. However, merchandising is all a part of branding a product line and it can be a fantastic way to retain customer loyalty, get customers to easily recognise your product, and raise awareness about your brand. If done creatively, you can create a campaign that helps sell a lot of units of whatever it is that you are selling through your company.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Google Assistant (or GA) is an ingenious product from Google that was presented to the general public in mid-2016. Meant as a replacement of Google Now , the app represents the next step in the development of AI-powered cloud-based services. Though it is pretty similar to Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, it provides a much smoother and more enjoyable user experience.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Amy and I are long-time supporters of the Boulder International Film Festival. The 2019 fes tival starts soon and runs from February 28 to March 3rd. Bias , one of the documentaries that we helped fund, is making its Colorado Premier and showing on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 10:00 am. Robin Hauser, the director, is spectacular. Amy and I supported her previous moving Code: Debugging the Gender Gap , which was dynamite, incredibly informative, and very accessible.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Building a non-profit organization for a noble cause is a great thing to do in order to contribute to society. Just like a for-profit organization, there are hurdles and challenges the organization needs to face in order to keep going. In order for the organization to continue working and providing the people that it supports, it needs funds and resources which are usually acquired by donations.

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Philippines Campaign Social Media Hosting 113

YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Problems will always be a part of a business, but how you deal with them matters most. Here's a look at how to deal with unhappy clients.

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Customer Management 103

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

“Pink sheets” are stocks that are trading in the over the counter (OTC) markets. Over the counter markets are well known for small cap stocks. Pink sheets and penny stocks go hand in hand, and the name pink sheets often means penny stocks to many people. What are Pink Sheets? Pink sheets LLC are a private company situated in New York, who are completely unlike any other exchange.

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Our Own Start-up

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Sachin Bansal, who left Flipkart in 2018 invested INR 650 crores ($92 million) in Bengaluru based ride-hailing company ‘Ola’ which turns out as the largest investment made by an individual in the fundraising.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Periscope Data is emerging as a quiet juggernaut, one of those rare, ultra-relevant startups that also packs a ton of heart and hustle.

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Bootstrapping Startup Analytics 64

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 22, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in Transportation and Delivery , which will pitch at 9:30 am Saturday, March 9, Electristructure is an infrastructure developer for electric charging stations for pub

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Israel is a nation full of booming tech startups. In fact, according to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Tel Aviv has more startups per capita than anywhere else in the world, earning it the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, or better known as Silicon Wadi. At the same time, cities like Jerusalem are also producing their own tech unicorns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Every mature company I know is looking for more innovation from within. They are painfully aware that tenure on the list of S&P companies is shrinking – from thirty-three years back in 1964, down to twenty-four in 2016, and predicted to be just twelve by 2027. They need inside intrapreneurs who think and act like the outside entrepreneurs who are disrupting their business.

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