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Business Travel Decline Due To COVID And Environmental Concerns

YoungUpstarts

by Simone Semprini, CEO & Co-Founder, TourScanner. A few months after the world discovered the first Coronavirus case in China, a general lockdown has completely changed the lives of billions of people. It was a surreal situation with over one billion people confined at home. Effect of the lockdown in the travel industry. The measures to prevent the spreading of the virus induced a global reduction of the travel demand.

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From Satisfactory to Sensational: What Makes the Difference for Customers?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you run a business, you might have noticed that customer reviews have become increasingly commonplace in recent years. Now, more than 84% of buyers consider online reviews as trustworthy as referrals from friends and family. If you’re on a mission to attract sensational reviews, rather than satisfactory ratings, here are some key elements on which to focus.

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Open Banking Is Becoming The Norm In The Banking Industry: Here’s What You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

You may have received a loan from a bank at some point to finance a large purchase such as a house, car, or boat. You probably also use your checking account for paying most of your monthly bills. Beyond these basic services offered by your bank, technology is creating more and more options when it comes to your banking activities. New technologies are transforming the way the banking industry operates by creating more efficient and cheaper financial services.

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Drive the Meeting

View from Seed

One thing I strongly believe is that founders should drive the agenda of a fundraising meeting. This is something that is easy to do, but only happens a minority of the time. What does it mean to not drive the meeting? To me, it’s showing up and relying on the investor to tell you how they want to structure the conversation. There is nothing inherently wrong with this.

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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 You Can Increase Productivity In Your Small Startup

YoungUpstarts

When you are running a small startup business, you will want to make sure that you keep on top of your work and meet as many deadlines as possible. It is likely that you will want to be able to grow your business and make it a success and to achieve this, you will need to increase productivity. To help you with this, we are going to discuss how you can increase productivity in your startup.

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That’s gotta hurt! Injuries and accidents that plague the workplace

The Startup Magazine

Is your employer taking your health and wellbeing seriously? If they’re not, then you and your fellow employees could be at serious risk of accident and injury. Ignoring workplace safety means time off work, rising medical bills and an uncertain future. There are plenty of signs that show your employer is taking workplace safety seriously. Good, consistent training, plenty of high-quality signage, safety equipment, emergency drills etc, but is your employer familiar with the most common workplac

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Definition of #GiveFirst

Feld Thoughts

Jaclyn Hester, one of my Foundry Group partners , recently asked if there was an online definition of #GiveFirst. I spent some time looking around, and, while it’s embedded in numerous podcasts and video interviews, I couldn’t find a clear definition on the web. The closest I found was from January 1, 2013, in a post titled Give Before You Get.

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The Best Way to Begin Profit First

Mike Michalowicz

I’ll level with you. I receive a ton of email about my books, and Profit First is no exception. Oftentimes, business owners are reluctant to implement something new – even if it could very well be the saving grace of their business. For this reason, may I suggest – just start slow! It is human nature to feel overwhelmed when it comes to starting something new.

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Startup E-Commerce Business Tips

The Startup Magazine

If you’ve just started your own e-commerce venture or looking to launch, congratulations, you’ve already overcome the first step. We’ve put together some sensible ideas that will benefit your burgeoning e-commerce business – let’s look at a few of them: Get your finances in order from the beginning. Most e-commerce businesses have great products and services to sell, but don’t know where to start when it comes to their finances.

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How to Address Common Workplace Discrimination

Up and Running

If you think discrimination doesn’t exist in the workplace, you simply don’t know what it is. According to The 2019 Workforce View in Europe Report from ADP, 49% of UK workers aged between 25-34 have reported facing some type of discrimination. That’s almost one in two people that have been discriminated against. For some people, this won’t be surprising.

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Kevin Zhang Discusses How the eCommerce Millionaire Mastery Program Can Give Your Family Financial Success

The Startup Magazine

With the onset of the pandemic, many families are finding that they need more flexibility and financial freedom. With traditional industries like air travel and hospitality in a slump, many parents have lost their jobs. Parents who want to safeguard against the threat of job loss and build additional streams of income have several different options to consider.

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10 Reasons why entrepreneurship is awesome

Our Own Start-up

There are endless reasons for why entrepreneurship is great. Here are ten simple but powerful reasons, in no particular order, why entrepreneurship is so awesome.

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What needs to be true?

Eric Friedman

I reconnected with a CEO recently that launched their business about three years ago. We chatted about the long, harrowing lead-up to their first product launch. The list of things to do was long, the road ahead was unclear, and there was no end to the todo list in front of the team. At some point during our strategy sessions I asked what needs to be true to launch ?

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5 Tips for improving your employee onboarding process

Our Own Start-up

The most important decision you'll make as a manager is how well you keep your team together. Your team is the key to your company's success.

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Why Rent Your Marketing When You Should Own It?

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Rent Your Marketing When You Should Own It? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with South City Print . In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Clem Huffman, owner at South City Print and Alexa Arciero, marketing manager at South City Print. Clem Huffman started South City Print in 1988 and a lot has changed in those 32 years of running a printing business.

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From failing to crack IIT to assisting aspirants, Aditi Avasthi’s ed-tech startup Embibe is all about helping students

Our Own Start-up

The startup has received a total of 590 crores since February 2020 as funding from Reliance Industries.

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Startup Founders Should Focus on Managing Expectations Before Managing KPIs

YoungUpstarts

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? The start of a new quarter prompts common questions from start-up founder’s and executives across Asia: What are our revenues and sales targets?

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Should You Use Navigation on Landing Pages?

ConversionXL

Navigation gives a user control, which is generally a good thing—but what about on a landing page, where the motto is “one page, one goal?” Should you use navigation on landing pages? While there’s not a one-size-fits-all answer (there never is in optimization), we do have some good data by which we can make a decision. Landing page optimization.

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. You’ll also find the video recording of the presentation at the end of this article and t he slides are available here. We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe.

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