Wed.May 27, 2020

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What to Expect from Cryptocurrencies in 2020

The Startup Magazine

The cryptocurrency market continues to evolve despite an increasing number of critics claim it’s doomed to fail. In fact, since the market tumbled in 2018, a lot of developments had occurred, and the trend for cryptocurrencies is expected to continue during 2020. If, as an entrepreneur, you want to know what aspects should be monitored to learn to trade cryptocurrency as a beginner , here are the top expectancies for this year. # Volatility.

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9 Subscription Model Variations To JumpStart Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new business quickly realizes that revenue coming in every period on a committed basis is the Holy Grail to survival and growth. Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), has become the norm for new products and services.

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CNC Manufacturing: Top 5 Maintenance tips for your CNC Machines

The Startup Magazine

CNC machines have taken the manufacturing industry by storm – that’s no secret. They are now available in almost every industrial floorspace. The reason for this success is their impact on productivity and efficiency. To some industries, these machines have been the key to gaining a competitive advantage in the market. However, for CNC machines to deliver the best results, they need to be well maintained.

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Half-stepping into video

Jeff Hilimire

Everything’s changing, amirite? I think Bill Murray said it best while explaining the situation in New York in 1984 when the ghosts were let out of the…well, I don’t want to spoil it for you, let’s just say it led to this epic line: Side note: is it just me or is there some weird acting going on by his partner in the background ? So yeah, things are nuts.

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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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8 Simple Ways To Market Your New Business On A Budget

YoungUpstarts

Anyone who’s looking to start a new business or has recently set up a company will understand how important budgeting is. You’ve got to buy equipment; you may have employees and then there is marketing. Decades ago, marketing used to be a barrier to entry for new firms, however, online platforms have completely changed the way companies target customers.

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How To Validate Your eCommerce Product Idea

Up and Running

You’ve got a great eCommerce product idea and you’re ready to get started building a new online business venture. But, before you dive headfirst into developing and producing your product you need to do some serious fact-checking. One of the most valuable things any business owner can do before launching a company is to determine that there’s a demand for whatever they want to sell.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Break Through The Noise With Their Business

Hearpreneur

How do you gain the attention of your preferred audience in an era of stiff competition? The truth is, both new and existing business struggle to create a sustained buzz around their business. But it’s not always difficult as it sounds, it starts with thinking like the consumer, creating an experience for them and ensuring your products align with their values.

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Life Lessons You Learn When You Take Financial Risks

YoungUpstarts

If you want to make serious money in this world, you have to take ownership of capital – or in old-fashioned language, the means of production. When you do, you’re faced with a choice. You can either leave your money in a diversified portfolio and wait for the economic tide to deliver returns. Or you can go into the hectic world of trading and try your hand at timing the market. .

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The Most Effective Law Firm Marketing Strategies for 2020 and Beyond

The Startup Magazine

To increase clientele, law firm marketing should be memorable, credible, and most of all, visible. Check out the best techniques here. If you own a law firm, you know marketing is one of the most important tasks you have to do in your business. Without an effective marketing campaign, there would be no clients and your business would fail. Although marketing is important, it can also be confusing and overwhelming.

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4 Biggest Challenges of Working Remotely and 13 Strategies to Overcome Them

crowdSPRING Blog

You dream of the free-range, work-from-home life. You even have friends who work from home, and you envy the freedom they have. Remote work provides flexibility and freedom you may not find in an office. The truth is, 10 years ago most people had to go out of their way to nail down a career that allowed them to work remotely. But, times have….

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Injury at work ? do I need a lawyer?

The Startup Magazine

Any position within gainful employment will come with inherent risk factors in terms of worker safety. Even something as innocuous as a part-time role working for a company that manufactures bubble wrap, knee pads, elbow pads, helmets, sponges, and foam mattresses could lead to injury through obstructed walkways, poor lighting, and electrical hazards (your friends and family may never let you live down the irony of being injured in such a place, but all the same, the sentiment remains that injur

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Focus on Your Customer to Grow Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Focus on Your Customer to Grow Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Simon Severino. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Simon Severino, CEO of Strategy Sprints GmbH, where their goal is to coach CEOs and their teams to ensure higher NPS (Net Promoter Score), higher sales conversion and faster execution.

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Uncertainty

VC Adventure

I’ve been reading a lot recently about the relationship between uncertainty and mental health. Specifically, it’s well-documented that uncertainty drives significant anxiety. This is logical on many levels but what I didn’t realize is just how deep-seated it is. In a time when there’s an incredible amount of uncertainty, I think this is something that everyone needs to take a step back and understand.

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The story of Vera Bradley: From sewing bags on a ping pong table to becoming one of America’s most loved brand

Our Own Start-up

Together, Barbara Bradley and Patricia R. Miller founded Vera Bradley, a popular American handbag, and luggage design company.

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Selling Your Company? Here?s a Legal Checklist

Scott Edward Walker

I’ve been handling M&A transactions for 20+ years, including nearly eight years at two major New York City law firms. During that period, I have seen numerous significant mistakes made by founders and entrepreneurs in the context of selling their company. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to provide a legal checklist of key issues, which includes links to prior posts for a more detailed discussion.

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Financial Preparation Through a Crisis: How to Make Sure You Thrive

Women Entrepreneurs Can

More than 15 million Americans have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, and they are only part of the vast number of citizens that are struggling financially due to the virus. Even people who are still working have faced pay cuts, reduced hours, or lower workloads. Executives from companies that range from Disney to Marriott have taken reduced salaries, and it’s affected the day-to-day workers as well.

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Transformify Partners With Paymo to Take Contingent Workforce Management to the Next Level

Transformify

London, May 2020. Transformify HR Suite , a UK-based HR software company has joined forces with Paymo to provide a seamless contingent workforce management solution. As businesses of all sizes are shifting to an on-demand workforce to optimize costs and increase efficiency, it became obvious that there are very few Vendor Management Systems / Contingent Workforce Management Systems addressing the needs of small and medium businesses (SMBs).

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Criminal Defense – Why You Need To Be Honest With Your Attorney

YoungUpstarts

Criminal charges are surely not good news for anyone and if you face them, you should see a defense attorney sooner rather than later. Obviously, they would have a set of questions right in the first meeting. They would also expect you to give them every detail of the event so that they can start working on the case. Certainly, you would have some concerns as well.

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8 B2B Link-Building Strategies That Never Go Out of Style

ConversionXL

There are only a few things I love as much as link building. . Owning a new pair of high-end shoes has to be one of those. Damn, I’ll admit—I even have a tradition of treating myself with a beautiful new pair after a successful business trip or client acquisition. As a result, my closet is full of shoes that I’ve bought and worn only once. Above, you can see one of my fav pairs of those red-soled shoes (you got the brand, right?

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What Is The Forex 3-Session Trading System And How To Leverage It

YoungUpstarts

The foreign exchange is unique in the financial market, as it remains accessible to investors 24-hours a day and six days a week. This is just one of the reasons why the market is so lucrative, with an estimated $6 trillion now traded every single day globally. Interestingly, the 24-hour forex market is broken down into three geographical sessions: namely the North American, European and Asian sessions.

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Navigating the Nuances of Communicating as a Woman

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Women in the workplace face a lot of unique issues, especially as they rise to prominence in their companies. Promotions and positions of authority bring with them frustrations and new forms of gender discrimination. Communication is one of the biggest obstacles for career women, and it only gets worse as they get higher up the ladder. Some of the common communication behaviors women do are called self-sabotage or disadvantageous.

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

Out of the Crisis #5 is a conversation with three people who pivoted their biotech company to help fight the coronavirus. Akash Bakshi , Nadja Mannowetz , and Andrew Bartynski are the co-founders of University of California, Berkeley-based YourChoice Therapeutics. When they realized the drug they were working with for an entirely different reason had potential to be repurposed as a COVID-19 treatment, they "dropped everything and got to work.