Mon.Jul 29, 2019

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9 Success Inhibitors To Overcome For Rapid Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

A common complaint I hear from my startup clients and many entrepreneurs is that rapid growth is more difficult than ever anticipated. The assumption usually is that more money is needed for marketing, or another round of new development is needed on the product. Yet I find in digging deeper, the challenge is just as often getting the right people and culture , rather than money.

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Why Use Website Builders For Your Online Business?

YoungUpstarts

Starting an online business is not hard. All one needs is an idea, product/service developed from the idea, a website, and proper marketing. Out of this four, except for “idea”, the other three demands time and money – and that’s what one tries to save when in initial stages of a business. One of the element (of the process) where both can be saved is in the website development.

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How to Land Funding From Angel Investors

Up and Running

Are you wondering how to land funding from angel investors? Of course, any real answer depends on where you are and the specifics of your business. This article focuses on angel investors in the U.S., and the process of raising angel investment for high-tech or high-growth startups. It’s different in most other countries—and almost impossible for established businesses without high potential for growth. .

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How Getting A Doctorate Can Benefit Your Business

YoungUpstarts

There is a stereotype that the education after the Master or Doctor of Philosophy program is necessary only for those who are engaged in research of the science field and going to teach at the academy. However, the business sector no less needs specialists who have received a doctoral education. Especially such experts are in demand in business consulting, analytics, financial sector, and the stock market.

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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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The Impact of Branding

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to branding, most people think only of what they see in terms of color and logo. While these are a part of branding, there are many other elements that makeup branding as a whole. As a company, your brand is not only about your visual identity but also about your personality. It is how people perceive you. Think about it as an individual person.

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How to Start a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Business (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

For entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves, cut through a decent chunk of bureaucratic tape, and hand over some cash upfront, opening a medical dispensary is a great opportunity. A dispensary will allow you to be a pioneer in what is soon to be a massive, national industry. . Marijuana Business Daily projects revenue generated by dispensaries and retail stores to reach between $6.5 and $8 billion in 2019.

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5 Mindset Shifts To Overcome Your Sales Anxiety

YFS Magazine

Discover the key strategies that can shift your sales mindset, so you can drop the anxiety and pick up some excitement.

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A Guide to Making Your Business More Appealing to Customers

The Startup Magazine

You’ve likely heard the saying many times before, but when it comes to running a business, your customers come first. Without customers, your business is more or less non-existent. The golden question then becomes what you can do to keep your customers interested and happy. The answer is likely to be different for every business as your customer base varies.

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4 Things To Consider Before Hiring A Life Coach

YFS Magazine

The very nature of life coaching depends on the quality of the coach, so it's only natural to want to pick the right person.

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Becoming an experienced business negotiator

The Startup Magazine

There are several factors that come into play during a business negotiation. Becoming a master at this skillset is not easy and takes much practice. Business negotiation, a skill acquired over an extensive period of time, is one that can be highly beneficial to all. Source: Priscilla du Preez on Unsplash. In order to become the most experienced negotiator in the room, there are certain steps and techniques that can be used to your advantage.

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Startupbootcamp Australia Travels to Austin to Scout for 2020 EnergyAustralia Program

Austin Startup

Startupbootcamp is a world-leading accelerator that scouts innovative and top-tier startups that are looking to disrupt the current industry status quo with diverse solutions. During the intense 3-month accelerator program, the selected startups receive hands-on mentorship from over 100 industry experts, free office space, seed funding, and access to a global network of investors with the ultimate goal of scaling their businesses and becoming industry-leading companies.

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Data Governance Framework for Boards

Board Effect

Most companies have sort of a fragmented, haphazard way of gathering and storing data. It’s not uncommon for companies to take a siloed approach to obtaining data, with each department gathering data on its own and designing its own rules for how to manage it. In looking at the big picture, companies may use the same data for differing purposes. Without a data governance framework, staff often duplicates efforts because there isn’t a designated way to locate needed information from a central sou

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Building Bridges: John Crossman on fostering diversity through scholarships and mentoring.

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is John Crossman, CEO of Crossman & Company , one of the Southeast’s largest retail leasing, management and investment sales firms, with over 28 million square feet of properties in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee.

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Top 4 Reasons to Be a Lawyer and Start Your Own Firm

The Startup Magazine

There’s no doubt, a law career is one of the most pursued career paths. So if you’re looking to become a lawyer and start your own firm, you’re in good company. Did you know the number of lawyers in the United States has been increasing steadily since 2007? Today, there are about 3.5 million lawyers in the country, up from 1.4 million in 2007. But what if you’re on the fence about pursuing this career?

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Jonathan Lemkin Is Taking The $32B Supplement Industry By Storm

YFS Magazine

A brand called the UnNaturals isn’t an obvious choice for a supplement company. However, for Lemkin, it's a truth the fitness industry desperately needs.

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How Sales Coaching Technology Drives Sales Performance

The Startup Magazine

Technology is changing the lives of individuals, and even that of businesses, for the better. While it is out there in the market today, it is up to you to take advantage of it and use it to improve the way you run your business. In terms of sales, there are new ways you can apply these to your company, all thanks to using new sales coaching technology in your sales process.

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