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How To Find The Best Atlassian Plugins, Addons, and Marketplace Apps

The Startup Magazine

With all the work we have to do, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything. In a team, people expect you to always be in check with your role and the tasks you have to do. You expect the same from them as well as you all strive to fulfill the organization’s goals and objectives. In realizing these, you want your team and organization to be innovative, creative, adaptive, and organized as ever.

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Why Customer Relationships Are the Key to a Successful Restaurant

Up and Running

What is it about your favorite restaurant that always makes you come back? Is it the quality of the food? Reasonable prices? Maybe the location is incredibly convenient? Sure, all of those things are important for running a successful restaurant , but they often don’t matter if one thing isn’t handled properly. Customer service. Think again about your favorite place to dine out and why you like it so much.

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The Analyst Cam: Plex Systems Dataset - COVID-19 impact on Global Manufacturing

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Jerry Foster, CTO at Plex Systems walked me through anonymized customer manufacturing data from.

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The Untold Benefits Of Optimizing Your Website For Mobile

YoungUpstarts

by Samuel Johnson, Managing Director at Mercury IT Solutions. The Internet is an ever-changing beast, and it is in a business’ best interest to flow with it. Nowadays, the average Internet user is able to access the web in an array of different ways. Aside from the average computer – tablets, watches, games consoles and, of course, mobile phones, are all exceedingly popular ways for visitors to find your website.

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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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VC Fund Returns Are More Skewed Than You Think

VC Adventure

Some of the most popular posts I’ve written over the past couple of years were the two that focused on just how rare outsized returns for an individual deal are in venture capital. You can see the original posts here and here. In those posts I was analyzing data from Correlation Ventures that showed just how skewed venture returns are, specifically that 65% of investment rounds fail to return 1x capital and only 4% return greater than 10x capital.

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Why Working With A Collection Agency Is Worth Every Penny

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve ever had the bad luck of having outstanding bills that debtors wouldn’t pay, you know how much of a hassle it can be to contact them time and time again in the hopes of getting them to pay. If all your tries haven’t resulted in anything, it’s time to change your tactics. Hiring a collection agency (Dutch: incassobureau inschakelen ) can help you out.

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How To Build High Quality Backlinks To A New Website

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve just launched a brand new website, you’re in desperate need of some quick traffic. You have no clout in the search rankings and you’re entirely reliant on paid traffic. But it doesn’t have to be this way for long. With a commitment to sound SEO principles, you can improve your search rankings and watch your organic traffic surge over time.

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Monday Motivation: Believe In Your Dreams

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Here are some takeaways from the video: Most people give up on their dream before the compounding is allowed to kick in. Accept you going to be relentless, keep coming, be repetitious, and you will win in life. Winner stay excited until their job is done.

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September 2020 Trends in Growth Capital Financings

Growthink Blog

Our investment banking arm – Growthink Capital – just released its assessment of growth capital financings that occurred during September 2020. We tracked $5.7 billion in new venture funding in September 2020, with the month’s biggest funding event being the online payment platform Klarna raising $650 million. Other $100 million+ funding events in September included the […].

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The Top 3 Financial Perks of Launching a Startup Company During College

The Startup Magazine

The idea of starting a business while you’re still in college may sound ludicrous. It is, in fact, the best time to jump right into entrepreneurship. Many will sit on the fence pondering if they can manage the added pressure of a college startup with exams looming. Others may worry if they can afford it or even possess the know-how to pull it off. .

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Austin Startup Week Kicks off in the Virtual World

SiliconHills

Austin Startup Week kicks off Monday with a focus on women in technology. But this year, instead of gathering at Capital Factory in downtown Austin, everyone is joining remotely from home offices everywhere. It’s the 10th annual event and no one could have imagined that a decade later this event would need to take place […]. The post Austin Startup Week Kicks off in the Virtual World appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Turn Leads Into Loyal Customers: A 5-Step Guide for Startups

The Startup Magazine

Without an effective lead-nurturing strategy, a young startup will quickly find itself in dangerous territory. Leads are the lifeblood of any company. And without a steady, sustainable stream of new customers, cash reserves will dwindle, revenues will dry up, and bankruptcy will inevitably ensue. Lead generation is crucial. That’s why it’s essential for startups to commit to continually improving their lead nurturing sequence.

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What Affects Nonprofit Executive Compensation?

Board Effect

Nonprofits need strong leadership and that comes with a price. Yet, donors generally pass over nonprofits that seek funds to pay for executive compensation. That means funds have to come from somewhere else. Nonprofit boards need to find ways to offer competitive executive salaries because effective leadership is necessary to reach their goals and serve their communities.

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4 Ways Product Packaging Impacts Sales

The Startup Magazine

In simple words, product packaging has a strong impact on sales. Because of the highly competitive business environment, investors are spending money on the packaging because it can influence the growth of a business. A strong product packaging can improve sales, magnify your reputation in the market, and open up several other opportunities for your firm.

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Commercial Building Maintenance Tips for New Business Owners

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Becoming a business owner is more than just taking care of incoming orders and employees; you have a new building to maintain as if it were your second house. Keeping your commercial property safe and appealing to customers should be your primary concern. With proper maintenance, you’ll have less work to do each passing year. Look after your company’s building with our quick list of commercial building maintenance tips for new business owners.

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Shapoorji Pallonji exiting Tata Group: All you need to know

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we take a look at everything you possibly need to know about the feud between Shapoorji Pallonji.

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Reinventing the SPAC

Reid Hoffman

One of the hottest topics in the technology and finance world right now is an old idea that has suddenly found new life, the special purpose acquisition company or “SPAC.” SPACs, which are sometimes referred to as blank check companies, are entities that go public and raise money from investors so that the IPO proceeds can be used to invest in and acquire companies.

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Don’t Make Business Decisions Based Only On Intuition

Startup Professionals Musings

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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How To Prepare Your Online Store For The Holiday Season During COVID-19

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph Heller, CEO & Founder of The/Studio Technologies and SuppliedShop.com. We’re already getting super hyped for the holiday season. From delicate snowfalls to generous gift-giving to spending time with family and loved ones, it really is the most wonderful time of the year. But if you work in retail, the holiday season can mean something VERY different.