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5 Steps To Successful Problem Solving For A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Perhaps sparked by the now forgotten recession, I’m seeing a new era of the entrepreneur, with startups springing up all around. Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. They have an uncanny ability to find elegant, easy, and fast solutions to pain points in the marketplace, as well as their own challenges.

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Fazt Tech Shares the Top Five Reasons Why Most Startup Companies Fail in the First Year

The Startup Magazine

With over 30 million small businesses in the United States, which include all ventures earning under $1 million annually, the market for sole proprietors is unprecedentedly popular. In fact, they account for a whopping 99.9% of all professional entities in the country. Unfortunately, such a high number does not translate to an equal level of revenues.

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Tips for Aspiring CEOs from People Hacker, Dr. Mark Goulston

ReadWriteStart

In this episode of the How To CEO podcast, I was privileged to speak with sought-after leadership expert Dr. Mark Goulston. Whenever I talk to Mark, I always gain a world of insight and inspiration all within a few short minutes. This podcast episode was no exception. Here are the tips for aspiring CEO’s from People Hacker, Dr. Mark Goulston. Here are a few highlights of what he and I talked about: Going Where You’re Looking and Looking Where You’re Going.

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Skills You Need in Your Startup Business

The Startup Magazine

A startup business is composed of ambition, talent and drive. This article focuses on that middle quality – the one that requires a certain set of skills and knowledge in order to succeed. As such, below you’ll find a concise list of the skills you ought to possess in your company in order to succeed in the startup space where others have failed – a tough and dog-eat-dog world that only the best-prepared and best-equipped teams will flourish.

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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 Importance of Community Involvement

Mike Michalowicz

When I am asked what the top benefits of being an entrepreneur are, sometimes people are surprised by my answer. Service. The sense of service I feel carries through everything I do. From writing to speaking to mentoring those I work with and meet, my strong sense of duty goes beyond the obvious marketing aspects of traditional corporate philanthropy.

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5 Shipping Container Business Ideas For Entrepreneurs

The Startup Magazine

Shipping containers are affordable, customizable spaces for entrepreneurs to startup businesses in. As an entrepreneur looking for an inexpensive opportunity to kick-start your business venture, consider launching your company in a shipping container. Those who take advantage of this idea set themselves up for constant growth. After all, you can move your business location easily according to the market.

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Dennis Farrah Shares Ten Steps to Calculate How Much You Should Be Saving for Retirement

The Startup Magazine

According to Bloomberg, as many as 48% of Americans above the age of 55 had no money saved for retirement in 2016. Additionally, more than 40% of folks between the age of 35 and 64 will not have any money in their retirement savings accounts by the time they end their professional careers. These numbers are easily some of the scariest financial statistics that anyone who has not made retirement plans could come across.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Financial and Business Crimes in the United States

The Startup Magazine

Criminal law is mostly associated with drugs and murder, but it applies in business too. Here’s a guide to financial and business crimes in the U.S. When we think of criminal law, we usually think of the grisly stuff: murder, theft, armed robbery, and all those kinds of dark behaviors. But the truth is, white-collar crime can be just, if not more, damaging than the most commonly thought of crimes.

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The Importance of Bridge Funding for StartUps

The Startup Magazine

It’s no secret that one of the first things you need to do to get a start-up off the ground is secure financing from investors, a bank, alternative funder, or other business. And while a lot of advice for start ups focuses on how to get that crucial initial funding, there isn’t nearly as much information about a secondary but no less serious issue that many start ups face: bridge funding gaps.

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Top Digital Customer Experience Metrics You Need To Know

The Startup Magazine

Speed, ease, and better website personalization is the best strategy to retain customers. Because this digital age keeps spawning impatient consumers. They increasingly demand products and services that provide instant gratification. Making digital customer experience a major brand differentiator. To deliver a smooth customer experience, therefore, you need to measure and optimize customer experience metrics.

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Mobile App Trends to Look Out for in Q4

The Startup Magazine

Mobile devices are constantly evolving as are the apps on offer to consumers. There are currently 5.1 billion unique mobile users , with the number of available apps for download continuing to climb as well. With over 4 million apps available between Android and Apple, there’s no end in sight to mobile app development improvements, which means big things for users.

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