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6 Observations On Key Challenges Facing Every Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. They are devastated when their business growth never starts or stalls, and they have no idea how to get it moving again. As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and

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Burning Platform: Career advice for new Tech World

deal architect

In episode 12 of the Burning Platform series, Brian Sommer and I talk about career advice we would give to the younger Brian and Vinnie if we were starting our careers today. We also discuss changes employers should be making.

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Why Buying a Mobile Office Could Save You a Ton of Money in the Long-Run

Women Entrepreneurs Can

In the past few years, the U.S. modular construction business has almost doubled in size and has reached $8 billion. There are many reasons behind this staggering popularity, and one of them is cost-efficiency. With its multitude of features, mobile offices promise significant cost-savings and are becoming the go-to option for many businesses across the country.

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5 Ways To Flip Your Home Fast

YoungUpstarts

Selling your home isn’t always easy, but if you’ve spotted the next prime property that you would like to purchase in order to live in permanently or renovate and sell on for a profit, you might need to free up funds from your existing home first. You’ll need to make a move reasonably quickly if you don’t want to miss out and any improvements you make will have to be completed fast and economically.

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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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Book: Becoming Monday

Feld Thoughts

I read G. W. Constable’s near term sci-fi book Becoming Monday. If you are a fan of near term sci-fi, AGI, or the singularity, go get a copy right now – you’ll love it. I woke up in a customer service booth. Or perhaps more accurately, since I couldn’t remember a damn thing, my new existence began in that booth. If you’re born in hell, does that make you a bad person?

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Benefits Of A Business Continuity Plan

YoungUpstarts

There are various benefits of a business continuity plan , especially when it comes to preparing for an emergency. You don’t want your company to be left hanging when it’s dealing with a crisis. After all, momentum is important when it comes to being competitive in the marketplace. Think of it as a kind of insurance plan that you can make yourself.

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5 Ways A Commercial Lawyer Can Help You With Your Business

YoungUpstarts

It takes a lot of work and effort to run your own business, but there are some things that even the most competent business owners may need help with when they finally start to trade. It can be hard to navigate all of the paperwork and policies that you may need to have in place when you are running your own business, so it is a good idea to get some help from someone in the know.

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Five Questions (And Answers) To Fuel Business Success

YFS Magazine

Questioning is a uniquely powerful tool for unlocking value, personally and professionally.

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Hiring For The First Time? Here Are The Type Of People To Look Out For

YoungUpstarts

Hiring and expanding a team is always an invigorating experience. A fresh mind is joining and might actually be what the team is needing to reach their targets or make a massive change in how they do stuff. But with that said, how do you hire? Many people think hiring is an easy thing. Well, it somewhat is, mostly it’s on luck. But when you start reading and really getting into the matter of hiring and recruiting, you begin to see that it’s not all that simple.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “Life Is a Game of Inches”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Every week or two, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur (particularly during this pandemic). Indeed, whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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What To Do When You Lose Your Workers’ Compensation Appeal

YoungUpstarts

by Veronica Baxter. This article will address your options if you are an employee who was injured or contracted a disease or condition while working, whose claim has been denied, and who has lost your workers’ compensation appeal. No matter where you live, state law provides recourse at every step of the process – don’t give up! Insurance companies often deny worthy claims with the hope that the claimant will not pursue an appeal.

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Why Understanding Customer Experience is Essential to Success

The Startup Magazine

In today’s economy, most companies want to make sure that they are delivering on every single customer request, and customer service can be a very important factor in this process. Customer experience does not only occur on the inside of a company. It also happens on the outside of a business. Rate your experience customer satisfaction review Five Stars on mobile phone screen.

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Project Management for Construction

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There are many project management roles that cover one niche very deeply. Becoming specialized in that area. Construction project management covers a wider range of construction jobs, and then some. Not only does construction project management cover the project they are undertaking, but they should be able to cover all of the typical jobs too. The construction industry has unique challenges, and it is estimated that a construction project manager will cover over 120 responsibilities.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. The company’s bad behavior was nothing new. Just weeks before, Uber was fined $20 million for recruiting drivers while publicly exaggerating claims of their earnings potential.

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