Thu.Mar 19, 2020

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Machine Learning Is Your Secret Weapon For Customer Acquisition

YoungUpstarts

by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. If you’re looking for a strategy to get ahead when it comes to customer acquisition, machine learning can be your secret weapon. While machine learning does fall under the larger category of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s a bit more specific and can be extremely effective technology to pair with your customer and prospect database.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Tim Stewart, trsdigital. An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. But nothing gets better if we stand still. Work can be a welcome intellectual distraction. It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times.

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Industries In Hyderabad With Ample Job Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

In 2018, the Oxford Economics Institution conducted an interesting survey across 780 cities to determine which ones would make it to the list of Top 10 wealthiest cities in the world by 2035 on the basis of their annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Well, here’s what was interesting about the report – all the ten cities that made it to the list were from India!

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3 Ways to Make the Most of the Technology in Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Running a business can be challenging, but one of the best ways to make it easier is to rely on different forms of technology to automate tasks and make certain things simpler and more streamlined. There’s virtually no business out there that doesn’t use some kind of computer or digital technology to make their company more successful and easier to manage, but how do you make sure you optimize those technologies and ensure they can help you for a long time to come?

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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 positive impact of COVID-19

deal architect

Somebody once told me I could make a brown paper bag sound interesting. Not sure if that was a compliment but I do find interesting aspects to most anything. While there is so much doom and gloom around the coronavirus.

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AFWERX’s Virtual Conference Previews What’s Next for Our Startup Scene Amid Coronavirus…We’re…

Austin Startup

AFWERX’s Virtual Conference Previews What’s Next for Our Startup Scene Amid Coronavirus…We’re Going Virtual! With big plans to organize, host and promote multiple days of complete programming at Capital Factory House, an official SXSW venue, you can imagine the impact on the team when SXSW was understandably canceled due to concerns surrounding the spread of COVID-19.

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Important Productivity Apps And How They Help Small Businesses Achieve Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Atman Rathod, co-founder at CMARIX TechnoLabs Pvt. Ltd. It is no brainer to say that businesses today need to go digital to remain productive. From maintaining and safeguarding the company’s data to managing operations to reaching out to the customers and managing team members across locations, every company irrespective of their size or niche needs a digital presence.

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Four Reasons Business Leaders Should Never Stop Learning

YFS Magazine

Continual learning sounds great, but how do you make it happen? Here's how small business owners can prioritize ongoing education.

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Beginner’s Guide To Investing

YoungUpstarts

Almost every financial expert agrees that investing on the stock market is the best way to make money, but putting that first dollar down can be scary. You don’t know what stock to look for and there is always risk involved. This article will take things slow and introduce you to the world of investing. How to Start Trading. Trading stocks is easy once you know how to start.

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Timeless Habits for Cultivating Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Timeless Habits for Cultivating Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Stephen M. R. Covey. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is speaker, author, and Global Practice Leader at the Global Speed of Trust Practice, Stephen M. R. Covey. M. R. Covey is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, where he helped his father, Stephen R.

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Complete Guide To Retirement Planning

YoungUpstarts

People need to spend some time preparing for their retirement so that they can relax and avoid unnecessary road bumps. While you may want to prepare for retirement, you might not know how to go about the planning process. Luckily, you can look over this guide so that it can help you figure out your retirement plan. Budget Money for Retirement. If you want to retire, then you need to look over your income, see what you should save and the amount you will need for retirement.

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3/19/2020 Thoughts

VC Adventure

I had a few things on my mind related to the startup environment right now as it relates to Covid-19 and the massive market disruption that we’re in the middle of. It’s a struggle to get them all sorted out in my mind so apologies in advance if these are a little disjointed. As you can imagine we’ve been having conversations all week across the Foundry portfolio (which includes not just companies but also our ~ 35 fund investments; between those we have look-through into a few

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Five Things to Make Your Business Coronable

Austin Startup

After talking to entrepreneurs over the past two weeks, it seems most businesses are imploding or exploding, depending on how well their business model can adapt to a post-corona virus world. There are five general things you can do now to make your business coronable: survive and thrive in a viral world. If you have a physical good, start selling online, leveraging Amazon, Shopify, etc. to make it easier for people to buy what you have.

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Do you even know what questions to ask?

Berkonomics

Great executives and managers seem to intuitively know what they don’t know. But it is not at all uncommon to not even know what questions to ask. Who would have thought about COVID 19 and public’s panic responses? Image credit: Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay. One week we all thought we had our responses dedicated to supply chain disruptions. By the next week it was protecting our associates and employees.

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COVID-19 NZ Government business support package – are you eligible?

NZ Entrepreneur

The COVID-19 outbreak is at the front of many people’s minds right now, especially for business owners. The New Zealand Government has activated a business relief package to help affected businesses navigate these challenges. Here’s what you need to know. The business support package. The government announced its $12.1 billion support for New Zealanders and business.

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Making it to the Other Side

The Entrepreneurial Mind

(Photo source: Image by Ralf Unstet from Pixabay) When our world was turned upside down by the coronavirus, my mind quickly began racing through my mental rolodex, wondering how everyone is doing. Certainly my immediate concerns were for family and friends, especially those with health concerns. Soon my web of worries shifted to all of […]. The post Making it to the Other Side appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Managing Your Fleet Like A Pro

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you have the responsibility of managing your own fleet of vehicles, there are so many different factors that you have to consider to ensure that you can keep your employees working at the most productive levels possible. Making the highest levels profit from your fleet is a major daily agenda, but finding out exactly how you can do this can often seem fairly difficult to decode.

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Help for Growing Small Businesses

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Owners of growing small businesses are facing unprecedented challenges due to the coronavirus. Amplify, founded by Belmont University alum Ben Cooper, connects growing small businesses with a team of outsourced COOs. In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, Amplify is offering two programs to help small business owners. Programs Amplify is partnering with the Austin […].

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Setting Up a Start-Up for Success

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There are a lot of people that have ideas for a business. Some of them are going to be good ideas. Some of them are not going to be good ideas. But having an idea doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to have what it takes to make the business a success. It can sound like something that is intimidating, but you will want to make sure that you are set up for success, and get the business off to a good start.

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Small Businesses Seek Cash Flow

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Image by Nattanan Kanchanaprat from Pixabay As the new realities of our coronavirus economy sink in, entrepreneurs struggle as their small businesses seek cash flow. Kabbage Inc., which helps small businesses with working capital funding, earlier this week launched www.helpsmallbusiness.com. The model is simple, yet potentially powerful, enabling anyone to purchase an online gift certificate […].

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Action Today for CFO’s

Steve Blank

Jeff Epstein is on the board of Shutterstock, Twilio, Kaiser Permanente, and was the CFO of Oracle, DoubleClick, Nielsen and King World and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He teaches the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford with me. And the minute he talks about financing I shut up and take notes. He sent this message to the CFOs of his companies yesterday.

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How to Improve the Efficiency in Your Manufacturing Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Every single business aims for efficiency. It doesn’t matter what the sector is, your company will be in a dire position if it didn’t seek to be more proactive about efficiency. If you are running a business in the manufacturing industry, efficiency is even more critical. The better the processes in a manufacturing environment, the more a company can be efficient – and that’s the goal.

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