Mon.Aug 26, 2019

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6 Myths On Starting A New Business That Can Kill You

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting a new business is fraught with challenges, and none of us has the bandwidth to kill them all. As an advisor to business owners, and an occasional angel investor, my job is to separate the actual challenges from the common misconceptions that distract many promising entrepreneurs while building the leadership team required for your solution, marketing, and finance success.

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Leader Insights: Building a Startup Culture of Prosperity and Success

The Startup Magazine

Below, The Startup Magazine provides an essay from Anna Svirelkina, Chief Operating Officer of BlockShow, the global blockchain technology conference. Ms. Svirelkina’s background as an entrepreneur and product manager give her helpful and unique insights of how we create and lead successful startups. Her perspective is another example of the power of shared entrepreneur experiences found in our founders article series.

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Audit Committee Responsibilities for a Nonprofit Board

Board Effect

Nonprofit organizations have much liberty to organize themselves so long as they remain in compliance with laws and regulations. Nonprofit boards have the option of forming an audit committee or handling the duties of an audit committee through the executive committee or the whole board. Ultimately, the board is responsible to ensure that their nonprofit follows through on its audit committee responsibilities.

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Tips For Legally Establishing A Business Name

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses and medium-sized enterprises account for more than 95% of firms. As an entrepreneur, naming your business is one of the most important business decisions you’ll ever make. Your choice of name needs to be unique, reflect your brand , and not get you into legal trouble. Make it unique. It’s all too easy to choose a business name already in existence.

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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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How to CEO Podcast Interview – Han Jin CEO of Lucid

ReadWriteStart

The world has changed. You can crash and burn or you can get the right tools and information now and change your life, your business and the lives of your employees. In this episode of How to CEO , I welcome Han Jin, the co-founder, and CEO of Lucid. Han Jin and his partner created Lucid in 2015. Their company produces software and artificial intelligence.

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How To Get Rid Of Mould In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Found some mould in your workplace? Getting rid of it could be a top priority. Not only is mould unsightly – it can also be a health hazard. Mould spores can cause respiratory problems if breathed in over a significant period of time, including serious conditions such as legionnaires. Such a workplace danger could even get you into legal trouble if no attempts are made to fix the problem.

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Found the Perfect Small Business Location? What To Know Before You Open Shop

The Startup Magazine

Congratulations! You’ve found the perfect business location for your startup. Whether you found a great cafe space, a convenient office space, or something else, it’s time for you to go into what you’ve been preparing all this time for, and open for business. Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels. Once you’ve crossed that off your list, you want to make sure that the place you’re renting is going to be ready to host all of your future sales.

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Should Brands Build Long-Term Partnerships With Influencers?

YFS Magazine

Two-thirds of marketers experience difficulty in selecting influencers for their campaigns according to a study by TapInfluence and Altimeter.

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12 copywriting myths debunked with Momoko Price

ConversionXL

How do you become a great copywriter? Do you blindly follow copywriting best practices and what people say online? I scoured the internet to find 12 things people say you must do and ran them past my friend, Momoko Price one of the best conversion copywriters out there. You’ll be surprised to hear what she says. [This post contains video, click to play].

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How Retreats Will Strengthen Your Employees and Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Whether you are running a fresh and innovative startup, or you are the Human Resources Manager for a large corporation, or anything in between, as the employer you have a responsibility towards the well being of the people who work for you. After all, if your employees are unhealthy physically or emotionally, it will be your company’s loss. Employee retreats are one solution to keeping a healthy staff.

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Christina Symes: Aussie Completes Elite Interior Design Course In Florence Then Launches ‘We Are Triibe’, One Of The Fastest Growing Design Firms In Australia

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] About eight years ago I was out in my old neighborhood in West End, Brisbane, at a lounge-bar called ‘The End’ At the door to enter the lounge was a friendly lady named Christina, who was checking IDs and […]. The post Christina Symes: Aussie Completes Elite Interior Design Course In Florence Then Launches ‘We Are Triibe’, One Of The Fastest Growing Des

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Monday Motivation: START OVER – Powerful Motivational Video

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. What lessons have you learned from the past? We all get the opportunity to learn everyday. Focus on now. Let go of who you are and focus on who you want to be. Create the best version of you. The post Monday Motivation: START OVER – Powerful Motivational Video appeared first on Hearpreneur.

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How To Get Actionable Feedback And Find Out What Clients Really Think

YoungUpstarts

by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. Everyone knows that clients can offer priceless insight into your business. Your clients have a fresh perspective. They notice things that you don’t. They can tell you if you’re successfully meeting their needs. Or not. And some businesses – like design, marketing, or branding agencies; interior design firms, freelancers, and contractors; among many others – absolutely rely on client feedback and collaboration in order to do their jobs.

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The Essential Guide To Operationalizing The Old Adage That The Customer Comes First

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Why is it that businesses that prioritize their customers tend to be more successful and profitable? Well, it’s because they make sure every part of the process is directly related to what their target demographic wants and needs. In fact, ensuring everything you do from designing the product to marketing it, and even supporting customers is a smart idea.

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Some Seriously Great News. No, Seriously …

Both Sides of the Table

Some Seriously Great News. No, Seriously … Exactly six years ago today I received an email from my friend Ynon Kreiz introducing me to Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto. Ynon had been the CEO of Maker Studios and I trust his opinion a great deal so of course I took the meeting. Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun gam