Mon.Dec 31, 2018

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5 Strategies For Business Growth Many People Forget

Startup Professionals Musings

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. The traditional approach of implementing stable and repeatable processes, so that your business can run itself, no longer works. Just ask former big brand companies, like Blockbuster, Kodak, Lehman Brothers, and Sears, what happened to them.

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5 Essentials for Starting a Business in 2019

Up and Running

Is 2019 the year that you finally start your own small business or startup? There are a lot of good reasons to consider starting your company this year. You can do it. You don’t necessarily need a degree in business or finance to be successful. But keep reading—there are a few essentials for getting up and running that you won’t want to miss. 1. A great business idea.

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How To Stay Safe If Your Company Gets Sued

YoungUpstarts

No one plans to get sued. But sometimes, the unexpected happens. There are a lot of reasons for this and the response to a lawsuit is going to depend upon the nature of the claim made against your business. As a business owner, it is your responsibility to do everything within your means to limit your risks. In order to keep the business running smoothly and have a legal contact, business owner should interview attorneys.

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My Top 10 for 2018

Start Up Blog

I was thinking about some of the cool things I saw, read, noticed and digested around the world of tech for 2018. A bonus blog post for your holiday perusal. You’ll notice underlying the top 10 is what I regard to be the biggest shift in tech at the moment is the realisation that we have a technology wildfire raging. We need to learn to control it and ensure that what we are building serves the many, and not just the few.

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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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Austin’s Paper Census: Helping Government Break Up with Paper

Austin Startup

Where do you start when you decide to become a smart city ? For Austin, one of the first steps is going paperless. In 2017, Austin City Council passed the Smart Cities Strategic Roadmap. This document directed city staff to identify smart initiatives to solve local challenges and improve city services. The nonprofit Austin Tech Alliance (ATA) noted that the city would need to move past paper-driven processes to fully benefit from smart city opportunities.

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Greatly Improve Your Real Estate Business By Using Blockchain Technology

YoungUpstarts

If you’re fresh in the commercial real estate (CRE) industry or are a seasoned veteran, you definitely know firsthand how cutthroat and utterly unforgiving this business can be. And though many of you may cringe at what I am about to say, we all know it’s true to a certain degree: when consumers think of the least trusted professions, real estate agents fall right in with Congress, telemarketers, and, sadder yet, car salespeople.

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[Interview] Donato Sferra Of Toronto’s Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Toronto’s Donato Sferra comes from a working-class background and credits hard work for a large part of his success as a financial services executive. Building extensive experience in the financial service industry over a twenty year career, Donato Sferra began his financial career as an equity research analyst at TD Securities, specializing in auto parts, solar and automation.

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Monday Motivation: STAY COMMITTED – 2019 Motivational Video

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Discipline your behavior. Hard choices, easy life. The road to power is in taking responsibility. Invest in what you dream for. If you commit to it, it will come to pass.

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[ADV] All You Should Know About Progressive Die Stamping

YoungUpstarts

Progressive die stamping is a type of manufacturing process that is used to cut and form products using a die. The precision stamping die is progressive in nature which means the raw material is pressed simultaneously and sequentially through a series of stations that work on the material until the desired shape is obtained. Progressive die stamping is different compared to transfer die stamping, which transports material from one station to another to work on the part.

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