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The Willingness to Learn and the Pressure to Be Confident

This is going to be BIG.

Being a founder means showing confidence. It’s nearly impossible to fundraise, hire, or lead without it—but at the same time, founders don’t know everything. There are many things they’re going to be doing for the first time that are ridiculous to expect them to know how to do right off the bat. Just because you start a company doesn’t necessarily mean you’re automatically a good manager, a good recruiter, or good at PR.

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6 Story Attributes Will Highlight Your Business Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

The biggest challenge for every entrepreneur and every startup today is to get noticed and remembered in today’s information overload. The number of entrepreneurs worldwide is huge, starting an estimated 50 million new businesses per year, or 137,000 per day. Every one of these probably has a unique story, but in my years as a startup advisor I only remember hearing a few who capitalized on their story.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Overcome Mistrust And Make Marketing Their New Best Friend  

YoungUpstarts

by Denise Kohnke, founder of the marketing firm House United LLC and author of “ All Of The Other Marketing Books Are Crap “ Eighty percent of CEOs responding to a global survey admitted that they don’t trust their marketing departments, saying they believe marketing team members don’t have business credibility and are too disconnected from the financial realities of their companies.

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AI in the enterprise: a reality check with John Sumser

deal architect

John Sumser, aka HR Examiner, has been focusing on "intelligent technology" including AI and machine learning as it morphs the HCM function. Trends in that function are a forerunner of what we will see across the enterprise. I recently caught.

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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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9 No-Nonsense Social Media Tips Your Business Can’t Ignore

YoungUpstarts

by Rachel Strella, founder of Strella Social Media. With social media a marketing staple for businesses in all industries and across all parts of the globe, it has become more competitively critical than ever for brands to get their acts together. You’ll find no shortage of online articles that offer social media tips, but many of them don’t cover the foundational necessities that are at the core of a successful social media brand presence.

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A Decade of Disruption – Future Scope at Uttishtha 2018

The Startup Magazine

The Startup Magazine was proud to be a media sponsor at this year’s E-Cell, IIM Kashipur flagship entrepreneurship event , Uttishtha’18, on 6 th October, 2018. The theme of this year’s event was, A decade of Disruption – Future Scope. In the past decade we have seen several start-ups disrupting the way we see and conduct businesses. The Olas, Facebooks and Airbnbs of the world have shown us how start-ups can become unicorns without investing in actual assets.

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What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About B2C E-Commerce

YFS Magazine

Knowing the basics of business-to-consumer e-commerce will help you market and sell more effectively. Here's what you need to know.

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How To Build A More Cohesive Team – Better Communication And Collaboration Is Essential

YoungUpstarts

86% of employees and leaders believe that a lack of collaboration and ineffectual communication is responsible for problems in the work environment. The survey carried out by Fierce Inc.com also revealed that 97% of surveyed professionals considered that a lack of alignment within the team had a significant impact on the result of a project. Employees want their leaders to seek and consider alternative opinions before making decisions, and the majority would prefer a culture in which staff are g

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UPshow Founder Adam Hirsen Shares Flight Plan For Success

YFS Magazine

Do our hobbies impact our businesses? Adam Hirsen, CEO and co-founder of Chicago-based startup UPshow, suggests entrepreneurs can learn a lot from hobbies.

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Cars And Business: A Conflicted Relationship

YoungUpstarts

Cars have been an essential asset of a business life since they’ve become a popular mean of transport. Many recruiters ask their applicants whether they have a driving license and a vehicle, meaning that it can be difficult to gain access to all jobs without one or the other. However, for a lot of employees, owning a car can become a real taxing and insuring challenge when you use your vehicle as part of your professional activities.

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Book: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

Feld Thoughts

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History was awesome. Given that Sears filed for Chapter 11 today, I’ll start with some perspective from 1976. America is remarkably dynamic. Humans constantly create narratives about things and how they work. Suddenly, popular books are appearing, such as Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , that challenge the relevance of our narratives.

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Switzerland As A New Entrepreneur Hub

YoungUpstarts

In spite constantly catching global attention as far as quality of life, safety and being a forerunner in the pharmaceutical field for many years is concerned, Switzerland’s role as an entrepreneur hub has mostly been overlooked. Having said that, things have changed dramatically for the better, and even though Switzerland may still lag behind a little than it’s bigger European counterparts, a very rapid ecosystem has been developed to attract new and innovative companies.

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The Benefits Of Using Microsoft Dynamics 365

The Startup Magazine

While there is a buzz about Microsoft Dynamic 365, few people know it enough to understand its benefits fully. As such, below are insights about this cloud service from Microsoft that hopefully will give a better perspective about Microsoft Dynamic 365. But before delving further, it is prudent to explain what Microsoft Dynamic 365 is; this is an all-in-one cloud-based solution design to meet your ERP and CRM needs.

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What Is Forex?

YoungUpstarts

Forex is a wonderful trade which can also be done by beginners. It is popularly known as foreign exchange trade and the asset which is used for trading are the different currencies used worldwide. There are several small and big traders in the field and also small families or individuals who are exchanging currency for a foreign tour can be referred to as doing a forex trade.

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Why Startups Should Use Content Marketing from Day One

The Startup Magazine

Well over 50% of all entrepreneurial startups fail within a year of launch. Some estimates go as high as 90%. It is never enough to just launch a product or idea into the marketplace and hope that it sells. A startup company should know their potential demographic just as well as they know their own product. Why would your demographic need or buy your product?

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Business Philosophy: Asserting Authority vs. Deferring To Experts

YoungUpstarts

Businesses are all about big decisions. Not every decision is going to be correct and not all of them are going to be based on sufficient data. It’s these forks in the road that determines whether you find yourself in the promised land of success, or in the barren wasteland of bankruptcy. I’ve always thought of leadership as being about being the one person in the room who isn’t afraid of looking like they know nothing.

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Pitching Your Tech Startup Products to CxOs

The Startup Magazine

Entrepreneurship is at an all-time high: nearly 150,000 new technology startups are registered every month globally. This global democratization of entrepreneurship means that new innovations are constantly building on one another, bringing us to levels of technological advancement previously unheard of. Source: Pixabay. In order to establish themselves, startups need to develop a customer pipeline.

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