Fri.Jun 26, 2020

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Guide To Improving Customer Communication – A 2020 Edition

YoungUpstarts

When running a business, there’s one element that is more important than any other: the customer. If you don’t have customers purchasing your products or services, your company will quickly cease to exist. It’s that simple. Due to the importance of customers, your communication with them should be a primary concern. Not only can this help to convince potential consumers into buying your wares, but it’s also a significant factor in ensuring current customers keep coming back for more.

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Humans Just Don’t Understand Complex Systems

Feld Thoughts

A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth as crowds flock to the beach. Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images. My first reaction to this photo was “you’ve got to be f **g kidding me.” My next reaction was the title of this post, “Humans Just Don’t Understand Complex Systems.” The Covid crisis is a complex system. I’ve had my head deep in complex systems for the past year as I worked with Ian Hathaway on our new book The Startup Community Way.

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How To Lead During A Time Of Crisis

YoungUpstarts

by Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-Founder and COO of Chargebacks911. The world is in a state of uncertainty. Cases of COVID-19 continue to spread and millions of people are experiencing upheaval in both their personal and professional lives. We’re in a period of rapid change, which can be a scary, confusing, and frustrating experience. Now more than ever, people look to leaders to encourage and support them through the turmoil and confusion.

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What Can a Startup Lawyer Help With?

The Startup Magazine

The early days of a business’ journey require the founders to pour their energy into focusing on getting their product or service perfected and out to customers in the marketplace. Getting your business up and running is also of supreme importance. But if this is your first time getting one going, you may feel way out of your league when it comes to the legal implications and compliance issues that may arise.

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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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Dermatologist And Entrepreneur Dr. Tim Ioannides’ Journey To Curating A Meaningful Career

YoungUpstarts

When most people think about medical professionals, they seldom consider the business aspect of a medical career, nor would they relate entrepreneurship with the same individuals. However, aside from providing patient-centric medical care in their particular niche of medicine, medical professionals seek to curate careers that allow them to partake in important research, remain professionally fulfilled, explore a passionate field, and provide the services they render to be most important.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

The world has changed… Two months ago, if I told you that remote work would be the global norm by mid-April, you’d have thought I was hanging out with Elon Musk too much. And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring.

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3 Businesses That Have Fared Spectacularly During The Lockdown

YoungUpstarts

In the shark-infested waters of business, startups are teeny tiny plankton being gobbled up by the bigger, more intricately evolved aquatic species of the corporate world. Most of them will be devoured before they even learn how to swim. But every now and again, there’ll be a start-up platform that grows a fin and some legs, and swims its way to the top of the food chain.

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How to Create an Effective Coming Soon Website for Your Business

Up and Running

Think back to the last time that you literally sat on the edge of your seat with anticipation. Maybe it was in the last 5 minutes of an incredibly close sports championship. Or when seeing your favorite band live in concert for the first or seventh time. An effective coming soon page for a website should elicit a similar response from your visitors.

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4 Good Reasons Why You Should Revamp Your Home Office

YoungUpstarts

A home office is where you want to work more comfortably and productively. If you are planning on starting up a business or work from home, you want your home office to reflect professionalism yet feel comfy. A disorganized and cluttered room is not conducive while working. There are many ways to make your home office feel productive, organized, and clutter-free.

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These 5 startups are using yoga, meditation and wellness programmes to keep employees motivated during pandemic

Our Own Start-up

Startups are ensuring that employees do remain motivated throughout the lockdown and are not stressed because of the pandemic.

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Three Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

YoungUpstarts

by Rizwan Virk, author of “ Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School “. If you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong. Well not, wrong exactly. Most startup advice, like most myths, have a kernel of truth to them, but you have to know when to apply it and when to skip it.

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Here is what Indian entrepreneurs have to say regarding scrapping of H-1 B Visa by Donald Trump

Our Own Start-up

The move has not been appreciated by most but entrepreneurs see a ray of hope for Indian Startups now.

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Top 7 Best Marketing Tactics In 2020

YoungUpstarts

There are more small businesses in the U.S. now than there have ever been before. In fact, recent surveys show roughly 30.2 million small businesses. In other words, you have a lot of competition. However, that shouldn’t discourage you from starting or continuing to run your business. If you have a good idea, fantastic products, or unrivaled services, the world deserves to see them.

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