Sun.Jan 31, 2021

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Here Is When Your New Business Needs A Written Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably already know how to build a business, and even conservative investors won’t worry about the quality of your next business plan. But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money.

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How Managed IT Services Can Help Boost Your Dental Clinic’s Workflow

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Businesses struggle with IT systems. And this is nothing new. Right? Surprisingly, more than 50 percent of the small companies feel that IT disruption influences their overall budget and productivity. The dental field is one of them which uses IT service on a large scale. This simply means with managed IT services, companies, and their employees can minimize risk and drive their productivity.

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Why Colleges and Universities Should be Scared of the On Deck Fellowship

This is going to be BIG.

There’s been an emergence of “pre-accelorator” or “people accelorator” programs—experiences that you can buy your way into with cash, as opposed to potentially valuable future equity, that replicate the education and network provided by the likes of YCombinator. They’re popping up in a variety of different verticals, led by one called On Deck and they’re causing a lot of people to ask the question if a very specific and highly relevant continuing professional education and network is buyable in

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Legal Protection: 5 Things to Consider Before Opening a Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

A lot of us dream of opening a business for ourselves. Who wouldn’t wish to be their own boss? Unfortunately, there are a lot of things you need to consider before opening one. Along with worrying about a business plan, a place, and the cost of your start-up, you also need to think about certain legal matters as well. Succeeding in a commercial market is not easy.

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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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The Importance of the Democratization of Capital

VC Adventure

The democratization of capital may be messy at times, but it’s much better than the alternative. And it’s long over-due. Robinhood’s actions to restrict trading in GameStop stock, as well as several other issuers, was completely the wrong response to an increasingly active capital class. It’s time to give up this old notion that small investors somehow need to be saved from themselves (as they claimed was the reason they halted trading in GME and other issues).

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4 Tips for Saving Money on Your Business’s Electricity Bill

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Have you ever gotten your utility bill at the end of the month and dropped your jaw in shock? Electricity has a way of spending itself if one isn’t careful. There are a few tips business owners should consider in order to prevent large expenditures on electricity. 1. Seek Experienced Professionals. Whether you are building your shop from scratch or moving into existing real estate, it is essential that all of your electrical wiring is done properly the first time.