Mon.Apr 13, 2020

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Top Java Engineers Attracted by DHL ESS, the first and only DHL Freight R&D team based in Sofia, Bulgaria

Transformify

Most people associate DHL with logistics, and few are aware of the fact that DHL ESS team develops Enterprise Software Solutions. What is even more interesting is that DHL Freight opted to base its first and only R&D team in Sofia, Bulgaria. " DHL ESS plays a fundamental role in the Freight Transformation program, aiming at harmonize the existing operational, financial and reporting processes and replace the legacy systems with state-of-the art standards operating procedures and technolo

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What Does It Take To Apply For an EIDL Grant Due to COVID-19

The Startup Magazine

COVID-19 continues to become a global disaster, and various things across the world are affected due to this disease. If you are an entrepreneur, you have already noticed a vast difference starting with the customer turn out. However, it is no doubt that most states across the globe are taking actions to ease the burden on taxpayers. Various programs are in place to help most businesses during this period of time.

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Top Java Engineers Attracted by DHL ESS, the first and only DHL Freight R&D team based in Sofia, Bulgaria

Transformify

Most people associate DHL with logistics, and few are aware of the fact that DHL ESS team develops Enterprise Software Solutions. What is even more interesting is that DHL Freight opted to base its first and only R&D team in Sofia, Bulgaria. " DHL ESS plays a fundamental role in the Freight Transformation program, aiming at harmonize the existing operational, financial and reporting processes and replace the legacy systems with state-of-the art standards operating procedures and technolo

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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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A Complete Checklist To Follow Before Purchasing A Printer

YoungUpstarts

A printer is an important accessory that every office and household requires. A lot of changes have compelled us to look for the best printer that is most suitable for the needs, whether you are buying one for your children’s assignment or just for a small business. A printer should be selected carefully before making an investment as they are expensive and last for a long duration.

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My Mother’s Prom – 1959

Feld Thoughts

It’s another Monday in the time of Covid. Recently my family had an email exchange about prom and it reminded me of the following scene from Contagion. This morning, my mom ( the artist ) reminded me about her email and suggested I start the week off with something joyful. So, I thought I’d write about her prom with pictures from 1959. Her email is in italics below.

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Monday Motivation: NO MATTER HOW HARD IT GETS – Powerful Motivational Speech 2020

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. The destination is more important than the route. What matters is that the efforts get you closer to the destination. It’s not always straight lines but it’s always in one direction. Clear destination makes obstacles easy to overcome.

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BankBazaar bags new investment from Amazon in series D funding

Our Own Start-up

This current funding comes more than two and a half years after the global credit rating agency Experian had led a $30 million financing round into the company. It has raised total funding of more than $110 million to date.

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Settling In

VC Adventure

As we enter week 5 (yes – I had to go back to my calendar and count) of our Covid-19 self-quarantine I find myself alternating between the comfort of my new routine and the uncertainty of not knowing when this will all be over. And for that matter, what “over” in this context means (How quickly will things return to some sense of pre-quarantine normalcy?

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Intellectual property rights: an overview for startups

NZ Entrepreneur

This article is the first of a three-part series by Dr Sudhanshu Ayyagari that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. Here we examine the different types of intellectual property rights and their importance for a business. Patents. A patent is a monopoly for an invention, which confers on the rights owner an exclusive right to use the invention in New Zealand for up to twenty years.

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E-commerce marketing and sales strategies your business should be using

Our Own Start-up

our goal should be to sell more and capitalize on customer acquisition as well as customer retention.

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How To Make Your Blog Posts Convert Visitors Into Customers

YoungUpstarts

Bloggers often brag about their website traffic. So does my friend who has a food blog. Once, she said: “I get two thousand unique visitors every month.”. “That’s great! You did a good job,” – I said. “And how much do those two thousand people pay for your meal plans?”. Then she got all upset because her blog brought her not a single dollar yet.

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Forget the trust fall: Team-building activities for corporate events that people actually like

Our Own Start-up

Most companies want to promote a feeling of togetherness and comradery among their employees. In order to do this, they need to bring everyone together in a meaningful way.

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Time Is On Your Side, Grow Beyond Today

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Curcillo , author of “ Getting to ‘US’: Discover the Ability to Lead Your Team to Any Result You Desire “ This pandemic has caused many entrepreneurs to hit roadblocks if not come to a screeching halt. This slowdown is the perfect time to revamp your business model and plan through the crisis and into the future. Crisis Can Teach Us Lessons.

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10 Post-Coronavirus Trends for Life After Quarantine

This is going to be BIG.

Obviously, the fight against Coronavirus has not stopped, but it’s hard not to look ahead to what’s next. How will having the world on lockdown affect our society in the long run? Here are a few trends I think we’ll see going forward: 1) Work from home is here to stay—at least partially. Absent the additional, albeit temporary, task of having to educate your own kids while at home, many people have reported being a lot more focused and productive while out of the office—not to mention the two ho