Fri.Jan 24, 2020

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5 Most Common Startup Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

The Startup Magazine

So, you’re preparing to launch a startup of your very own: congratulations! You’ve made it past the ideation phase, perhaps you’ve got a business plan in place, and now you’re ready to watch your business grow. Not too fast. Before you start earning profits and making an impression on the startup market, you’ll want to learn from your colleagues’ common startup mistakes.

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Four Marketing Automation Solutions Every SMB Should Have In 2020

YoungUpstarts

by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. Marketing automation isn’t a thing of the future — it’s very much a part of the here and now for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) across the world. However, there are a variety of marketing automation tools that many are unaware of and have the ability to help SMBs reach customers in a timely and effective way.

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Board Meeting Etiquette for Today’s Board Members

Board Effect

It’s an honor to be appointed and serve as a board member for any organization. Those who accept a position on a board should have a high standard of conduct by virtue of their position. Board meetings are formal events because important business takes place in boardrooms. For board meetings to be productive, there needs to be order and protocol. Board meeting etiquette also ensures that boards observe legal and ethical principles.

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7 Lessons For Mobile App Developers To Beat The Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit.

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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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5 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Take Advantage Of Networking Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

Are you always looking to find new ways to develop your network of other entrepreneurs? You’re not alone! According to 78% of entrepreneurs , networking is crucial if you want to be a success in your industry. Many people become entrepreneurs because they want to be their own boss. But, that doesn’t mean you don’t need anyone else.

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The Montana Future In A Dream

Feld Thoughts

I’ve always been a vivid dreamer, but I’ve been getting a lot more REM sleep due to the combination of a CPAP machine and the prostate reduction surgery I had last year (solving a “getting older” problem.). Every now and then I write out a dream after I have it just to remember it. Here are a few: Life in 2050 , Crazy Vivid Travel Anxiety Dream , and Metabolizing Stress and Anxiety.

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Quiet Giants

Eric Friedman

Some years ago the advice was to try join a rocket ship at all costs. Get on, hang on, and the success of the company will lift you to new heights. Perhaps this best encompasses the past decade of startup lore – get off the treadmill of corporate work you are on and step aboard the rocket ship of awesomeness that awaits within a high growth startup environment.

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Variables To Consider When Investing In Pallet Racking

YoungUpstarts

Choosing appropriate bed racking for your distribution center is a multifaceted procedure with a few considerable viewpoints to bear in mind. Choosing an inappropriate sort of racking may antagonistically influence your distribution center’s efficiency – or even lead to a costly re-fit inside a short time span. Be that as it may, whenever sourced in accordance with your business needs and existing offices, your stockroom can be fitted out with an exceptionally successful racking arrangeme

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Pacific Collection Group Offers Solutions For Customer Debt Collection

The Startup Magazine

Businesses need credit to run smoothly, however, the risk posed by delinquent accounts can stifle cash flow and roll back other business gains. According to Forbes magazine , businesses operating in the US have up to $650 billion outstanding consumer debts in some stages of delinquency. The situation is exacerbated by reports showing as many as 7 million small businesses are experiencing challenges collecting payments from consumers.

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Tips On Travelling For Business Meetings

YoungUpstarts

. Depending on your role and workload, you may have to frequently travel for business. While this does sometimes disrupt your routine at home, if the trips are well organised, they needn’t be stressful. Here are some of our top tips on travelling for business meetings. Give yourself enough time to prepare for whatever you want to achieve when you’re there.

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Cash and Bail Bonds: Employer Options to Assist Key Employees?

The Startup Magazine

In the unfortunate instance of a person being arrested, for whatever reasons. Not only can the arrest be a company crisis that can influence the company’s credibility, but it also puts strain on the trust within the company’s management system. When the person behind bars is a key employee it will definitely cause distress within the company, particularly for a startup.

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7 Ways to improve on your startup that will lead to investment increase

Our Own Start-up

There is something to be said to gaining experience through real-life problem-solving in your business ventures, but you can save time by not learning lessons the hard way and fast-track your path to business success.

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Make it Easy – and Improve Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

No, I am not showing you a photo of this guy’s (my son, of you must know) legs. See that blue line? That may be the one of the most simple ways I’ve ever seen to boost customer satisfaction. My son and I went to our local Wegman’s to pick up our groceries. If you know Wegman’s, it’s not exactly a small store. There are a ton of aisles – and a ton of distractions!

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Social Media Marketing: How to choose the right channel to fit your customers and business needs

Our Own Start-up

Top 3 things to consider before choosing which platforms to use for your business.

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7 lessons from Jim Collins (Good to Great) that are spot on, and 1 that I think is bologna.

Jeff Hilimire

Great by Choice is the book I’m having my leadership team at Dragon Army read in Q1 2020. It’s a top five business book for me. Jim Collins is one of my favorite authors. In fact, one of his books, Great by Choice , is in my top five business books. Good to Great and Built to Last usually get the main stage, however, and chances are that you’ve read at least one of them.

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Leadership and Motivation in business: 4 Factors that can be decisive for good leadership

Our Own Start-up

In the business world, leadership and motivation have been subjects that have attracted the attention of many entrepreneurs over the years.

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3 courses every self-taught entrepreneur needs to take in order to be successful

Our Own Start-up

To make up for the lack of skills, an aspiring entrepreneur could always look to take courses to enhance his venture’s reach.