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8 Challenges For Startups With A Neighborhood Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though the world is getting smaller, due to easy global connectivity, people still feel alone if not well-connected locally. There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” The term first appeared at least ten years ago, but the model is now very common.

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Changing Shape & Big Tech

Start Up Blog

In 2019 I wrote a manifesto on what we need to do to fix ‘Big Tech’ because I was concerned with how powerful the top six tech firms were becoming. At the time Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Alphabet and Tesla had a collective Market Capitalisation of US $3.9 trillion dollars. It is now US $8.9 trillion (28/6/21). Since then we’ve had a global pandemic stretching 18 months.

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PowerDrip case study: Helping social ventures discover their best market opportunities

Where to Play

Dora Marosvölgyi is a certified ‘Where to Play’ consultant, and manager of the Jumpstarter Program for early stage startups at EIT (The European Institute of Innovation and Technology). In this post, she shares with us her experience and insights from helping PowerDrip – a double-bottom-line venture – identify their first market using the Market Opportunity Navigator and the recently developed.

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Tidiness and Space Offers a Helping Hand with Home Design

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Renovation is great, but when there is a distinct lack of order, there is no way that you can adapt the space to your needs. Do you lack storage space in the house? Cladding one of the walls in the living room in a closet adjusted to a depth of at least 60 cm is an excellent solution for storing all our equipment. You can choose a cabinet with opening doors by pressing, which creates a smooth cabinet with an elegant and clean look.

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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 Things To Consider When Choosing Freight Forwarding Companies

The Startup Magazine

If you have expanded your business and started shipping products overseas, chances are that you will need help in the process. I’m not saying that you might not be able to handle all the work that needs to be done when it comes to producing and preparing your products. I am simply saying that the shipment process might be a bit more complicated than you might have thought, which means that you might need help in the area of freight forwarding.

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How Outdated Hiring Practices Can Derail Your Recruitment Efforts

ReadWriteStart

Too often, recruitment departments are sidelined as simply a call center or cost function of a business, with the sole purpose of getting people to attend interviews and accept offers. This attitude and practice couldn’t be further from the truth, as quality hiring provides the foundations for cohesive and successful teams. Many companies stick to old hiring processes, which often prevent their recruiters from getting their hands on top talent.

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