Fri.Feb 14, 2020

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Top 5 Esports Trends Entrepreneurs Should Keep An Eye On In 2020

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Manship , co-founder of Gamer One. Pick up the sticks, put on your headphones and get ready. Esports finally hit its stride in 2019, and with momentum behind it, the industry’s growth shows no signs of slowing down in 2020. When the first year of the new decade ends, esports fans around the world will number 307 million. Imagine all of America tuning in to watch the world championship of Fortnite, League of Legends, or Overwatch.

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Core Steps for Effective Board Meeting Preparation

Board Effect

Preparing for board meetings used to be laborious and time-consuming. Technology gives boards the capability to streamline many of the routine pre-meeting planning and activities. With many of the routine matters out of the way, boards can more easily focus on strategy and oversight. A board portal system will cut down meeting preparation from several weeks to several days, or maybe even a few hours.

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Choosing The Right Engagement Model When Hiring A Web Design Agency

YoungUpstarts

So, you figured out that your business finally requires additional online presence with a company website. However, since you are not a web design company, you will need the assistance of a web design agency to take care of your creating your website and launching it. One of the things you should think about before hiring one is the engagement model for working with it.

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5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term

Startup Professionals Musings

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive c

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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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Tech Career Advice For People Looking To Enter The Industry

YoungUpstarts

As the tech industry advances into new levels of highs and popularity, this also means that careers in this sector are becoming more and more lucrative. It’s without a doubt that the tech industry can present applicants with some of the most rewarding and record-breaking employment opportunities. These job openings can benefit those who have no diploma at all but have a lot of tech knowledge and expertise, and those who know technology, programming, and other related matters from A to Z.

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How to Set Up Your Small Construction Enterprise

The Startup Magazine

Working a life in which you’re an employee can be a little tiring. You work hard every day – often in a role that you feel you could do all by yourself – only to be paid a wage, with the profits siphoned off at the very top. It’s this feeling of unease that leads many people, especially those with practical and hands-on experience, to set up their own companies, trading privately with their own clients.

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I’ve gone plant-based for a month, here’s my experience

VC Cafe

While this blog is normally about startups and venture capital, I wanted to share a personal experience. If you don’t care about nutrition, you can stop reading now… A couple of weeks ago, I watched Game Changers on Netflix. Produced by James Cameron and narrated by James Wilks, a former UFC fighter and martial arts trainer, the movie includes an all-star team of co-producers (Arnie, Hamilton Lewis, Serena Williams, etc).

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Tips For Getting Your First Marketing Strategy Setup

YoungUpstarts

All businesses have to do marketing activities if they intend to survive, especially if the competition is intense in the industry they operate in. Thus, if you’re a business owner, you’ll probably have to learn how to make a marketing strategy and then implement it in real-time. Without marketing, your business will not get enough customers to survive for the long term and will die a natural death.

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6 Ways To Love Your Employees and Customers Better

YFS Magazine

Want your customers and team to love you? Chocolates are enjoyed and forgotten. Roses eventually wilt. But heartfelt leadership endures.

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4 Modern Mobile Business Ideas That Can Work For You

YoungUpstarts

Making an impact in business is always somewhat dependent on enthusiasm – if you have an idea you believe in and the energy to make it succeed, then you can get a lot done. For many people, though, this determination and will to make a splash doesn’t sit well with hours spent in an office trying to make it happen. If you’ve considered going into business for yourself, then you might feel – as many others are beginning to – that the right move for you is to start a mobile busine

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Creating a successful business

The Startup Magazine

Oleg Yavorovskiy, Founder and CEO of Guardian Debt Relief, provides The Startup Magazine with his insights on the key success factors of starting a business… Solving a problem and helping people are common motivations for launching a business. Before launching Guardian Debt Relief, a debt settlement firm with a vision of helping regular people eliminate debt, I knew credit card debt was a painful problem for many because I lived through it myself.

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The Fallacy Of Move Fast And Break Things

YoungUpstarts

by Dawn Parzych, Developer Advocate for LaunchDarkly. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. Companies wanting to be the next unicorn decided this must be the way to operate. The race was on to release more, ship faster, never stop. If moving slowly and methodically wasn’t working, doing more had to be the key to success.

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Market to Your Ideal Customer

The Startup Magazine

Customers and clients have shifted the way they view who they want to purchase from quite a bit from previous years. Nowadays, a customer is looking for companies and brands that not only sell the products that they love but also clearly express their willingness to interact with their audience in a transparent and honest way. Implementing techniques to improve engagement helps you find that ideal customer.

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Tips For Getting Your First Marketing Strategy Set Up

YoungUpstarts

All businesses have to do marketing activities if they intend to survive, especially if the competition is intense in the industry they operate in. Thus, if you’re a business owner, you’ll probably have to learn how to make a marketing strategy and then implement it in real-time. Without marketing, your business will not get enough customers to survive for the long term and will die a natural death.

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