Mon.Dec 10, 2018

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Feld Thoughts

It’s the second week of December, which is about the time that all of the predictions for 2019 start occurring. Last week’s announcements of the confidential S-1 filing of Lyft, Uber, and Slack helped prime the pump for some of these. By the way, did anyone other than me think it was a strange turn of events that companies are now announcing their confidential S-1 filing?

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Power Tips On How To Write Up A Contract

YoungUpstarts

From simple beginnings, trading has turned into a global business. Nowadays, countries would exchange goods or services, a big leap from tribe to tribe bartering. People trade with each other every day via buy and sell, a standard way of conducting trade. Deals are usually closed with words and handshakes; however, it is now wise to have written commitments.

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8 Ways To Prepare Yourself For Business Crises Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs see their new venture as a fun adventure, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. Even with all my years of experience mentoring in business, I can’t predict how you will prepare for and react to pressure situations. I wish I could, since these often make or break your business future.

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Graphic Design Trends of 2019

crowdSPRING Blog

Bold typography. Type is a fundamental part of graphic design. As such, it’s no surprise every year that designers take type in a different direction. Recently we’ve noted an increase in the use of type as a bold, often primary element in design. This goes along with the general trend of design becoming more simple and direct. When you look at the current state of media, the use of bold typography makes sense.

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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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When To Hire A Video Production Company

YoungUpstarts

In a world where videos are the primary vehicle for information and marketing, just getting a video out is not enough. Up to 87 percent of online marketers are using videos for marketing purposes and with platforms like Facebook and YouTube, it makes it harder for you to stand out and get noticed by merely making a video. The importance and impact of video marketing has been substantial with websites that use videos enjoying a 4.8 percent conversion rate compared to 2.9 percent for websites that

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Why Every Entrepreneur Needs A Business Coach

YFS Magazine

Entrepreneurs desperately need skill development and the self-awareness of habits, traits and decisions that impact their companies.

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Can online learning take your startup to the next level?

The Startup Magazine

One of the essential things a startup owner has to do is read and research widely. The information they gain helps to steer them in the right direction in regards to finding more clients for their business. Previously, people could only find reading material in physical educational institutions. However, with the rise of internet learning, you do not have to enroll for a course in such places.

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Attracting Top Talent: It Begins With The Job Posting

YoungUpstarts

by Scholley Bubenik is principal/owner of Premier HR Solutions, and author of “ People Power: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Managing Human Capital “ I love entrepreneurs and startups! People who haven’t done it don’t know how daunting it can be to leave behind a regular paycheck and head out into an adventure where you can always see the end of your income.

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Startup Spotlight: Aequos on a Mission to Deliver the Future Network

The Startup Magazine

As the future unfolds, more and more devices are migrating to the IoT (Internet of Things), particularly in the area of home automation. The latest development is the shift to using SD-WAN (Software Dependent–Wide Area Networking). It allows the administrators to decouple networking hardware from its control mechanism. Source: Pexels. If your company operates in this field or wants to expand into it, you will need solutions that are forward-looking, scalable, efficient, and cost-effective.

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Some Interesting Ways For Your Business To Make The Most Of Bitcoin

YoungUpstarts

You’ll definitely have heard of Bitcoin – the consensus network that enables a new payment system with entirely digital money. Released in 2009, it was the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network to be powered by its users. Nowadays, Bitcoin is considered to be the most prominent triple entry bookkeeping system. You may be looking to expand your business internationally, but you may not have considered how this alternative form of payment can benefit your company.

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CNBC And SurveyMonkey Report Small Business Confidence Is Weakening

YFS Magazine

"The steady, high confidence among small business owners that we tracked throughout 2018 is weakening to close the year,” according to SurveyMonkey.

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Recruitment Process Steps: What To Include To Hire Top Talents

YoungUpstarts

The company’s precious assets are its employees. Your enterprise will only succeed if the people behind its operations are collectively working towards the realization of your goals. If you want to entice the right talent for your needs, you should come up with strong and efficient strategies for your recruitment process. There is plenty of competition for exceptional talent.

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Monday Motivation: How To Motivate Yourself – The Psychology Of Self-Motivation

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Learn to be alone without being lonely. Stop expecting permission from others to do something. They won’t understand. Do what you believe is right.

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Stablecoins Galore

thebarefootvc

Several big announcements this morning: Gemini, headed by the Winklevoss twins, announced that they had received approval to issue its first cryptocurrency, a stablecoin called the Gemini Dollar (“GD”). Designed to facilitate the use of cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange, each GD will be backed by a US dollar, “in order to give it the stability of the fiat currency and the speed and borderless nature of a cryptocurrency”.

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7 Modern Web Design Trends for 2019

crowdSPRING Blog

75% of consumers judge the credibility and trustworthiness of your business from your website’s design. Today’s web visitors are sharper and more judgmental than ever. And, they’re only growing more so, as the generations who have grown up with internet access take on a larger and larger percentage of the population. Don’t take our word for this.

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