Fri.May 29, 2020

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6 Keys To Startup Wins Without Disruptive Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

As an investor, innovation is a term I certainly like to hear these days, but many of you entrepreneurs try to take it to the next level, by claiming to have a “ disruptive innovation.” What you probably don’t realize is that the term disruptive brings its own set of baggage, implying to investors extra high risk, high market building costs, and a long slow ramp before payback.

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New Normal: Conversation with Tom Brennan and Dave Stephans of Rootstock Software

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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4 Things To Do When Moving In A Hurry

YoungUpstarts

In a perfect world, you would have ample time to prepare for any move that you have to make, but alas we don’t live in one, and we have to face a lot of uncertainties. Moving out of your homes where you have been living for quite some time can be very difficult, and when you add the extra pressure of limited time, everything seems to be collapsing on you.

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Contact Tracing and Technology Conference ? 6/3/20

Feld Thoughts

On Wednesday, June 3rd, a team led by the COVID Tech Task Force is putting on the first of several free public conferences on the topic of Contact Tracing and Technology. Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, NYU’s Alliance for Public Interest Technology, TechCrunch, Betaworks Studios, and Hangar are also part of organizing the effort. I’ve gone extremely deep down the contact tracing and exposure notification rabbit hole.

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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 To Hire The Right PCB Design Service For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

There are way too many service providers in every industry. While this saturation may work in favor of buyers in a way, it also causes a lot more trouble. Too many services in a small market may get you better rates, but it also makes it difficult to find the right service provider. You want the best service, but the seller wants to earn maximum with minimum effort.

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Top 3 Reasons Why Veterans Make Successful Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

The mission comes first. Here's a look at three key reasons veterans often have what it takes to become successful entrepreneurs.

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On-Demand Money Making Business Model for Startups

ReadWriteStart

It wasn’t so long ago when we used to stand in queues waiting for taxis or go to local stores for grocery shopping. However, owing to the rise of on-demand businesses – stepping out of our homes for our daily needs seems to be an idea of another era. And the COVID-19 crises has sealed the deal. On-demand business, what is that? The on-demand business model is also known as an access economy or a shared economy.

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

Like many people, one of the things I've become aware of since the pandemic began is the lack of coordination and organization for people who are looking for ways to help. Out of the Crisis #6 is my conversation with someone who not only saw that deficit but did something about it--literally almost overnight. Radu Spineau is a serial entrepreneur. He's also one of the people building HelpWithCovid.com, a clearinghouse for matching volunteers with all kinds of COVID relief and COVID-related proje

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3 Lawsuits You Would Want To Avoid As A Startup In Chattanooga

The Startup Magazine

The most precarious time for any business is in its first year of operations. This is the time when reputations budgets are built or destroyed when finances are at their tightest and when clients and customers are hardest to come by. A lawsuit brought against your Chattanooga business is something that you will want to avoid no matter how old your business is.

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