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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program

VC Adventure

Quick break from Covid related topics for a moment to post something I’ve been intending to write about for a few months but haven’t had the chance to commit to paper. It’s perhaps a boring topic – Options and your company’s option program – but an important one. Despite how much time companies talk about the importance of their employees and, in many cases, how every employee is also an “owner” of their business through their option program, most

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7 Characteristics Of Startup Founders Who Enjoy Life

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always disappointed to see founders who seem stressed out most of the time, and more annoyed than energized by the abundance of challenges they see in building their startup. The entrepreneurial lifestyle is a tough one under the best of circumstances, and it’s one you have to love in order to succeed.

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Starting Your Own Business As A Student: Where To Start?

YoungUpstarts

Some of the world’s most profitable companies, including Facebook and Microsoft, were first started by university students whose expertise allowed them to be able to identify and solve problems. Of course, you don’t need to be a computer genius to come up with a worthwhile idea. And the area of business you decide to set foot into needn’t even be related to your area of study.

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Scenario Planning - the Workfront angle

deal architect

I have long been a fan of long-term scenario planning and this Harvard Business Review article describes in a fair amount of detail the big thinking around such planning at Shell and other large companies and at government agencies. I.

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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 IT Support Can Boost Your Marketing Efforts

YoungUpstarts

Technology plays a significant role in virtually all small business today; as such, it plays an equally significant role in marketing. Think about how marketing currently operates as opposed to when common strategies were making cold calls or going door-to-door to make sales. What’s most important now is your business’ website, advertising or answering clients via email, online stores, virtual ads, social media, and so on.

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A Guide for Financing a Growing Business

The Startup Magazine

Are you running a successfully growing business? First of all, congratulations are in order. You are succeeding in a way that many fails to do. Yet if you are reading this article, one point is clear: you are still not satisfied with your company’s position in your chosen industry. You want to grow. You want to gain additional customers and generate more sales.

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7 Marketing Hacks for Your CBD Oil Company

The Startup Magazine

Due to the growth in popularity of CBD products, how you choose to market your company is going to make all the difference to your success. You need to understand the right way to have your CBD business stand out from the CBD crowd. So how can you best market your CBD business? 7 Marketing Hacks. Find the Right Target Market. You need to understand the most popular age group willing to try CBD products, and target for them.

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Coach Helping People Deal With Traumatic Situations

Hearpreneur

Momentum Education’s Executive Director Robinson Lynn would never have imagined that 11yrs after the passing of his mom, the groundwork she had laid out would prepare him to become interim Executive Director and help so many people globally deal with traumatic situations. By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities.

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Introducing Circulate: Creating Better Networks for Future Founders from Black and Other Underrepresented Communities

This is going to be BIG.

One of the core beliefs that I had when I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures was that most of the next 50-100 important companies to be built in New York City were going to be started by people not on most VC’s radars today. To that end, my goal was to make the firm the most accessible VC fund in New York—showing up across diverse communities, getting rid of barriers to access like requirements for warm intros, and being conscious of which patterns of success I believe in and which only serve to r

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Coach Helping People Deal With Traumatic Situations

Hearpreneur

Momentum Education’s Executive Director Robinson Lynn would never have imagined that 11yrs after the passing of his mom, the groundwork she had laid out would prepare him to become interim Executive Director and help so many people globally deal with traumatic situations. By age 25, Robinson Lynn had assumed leadership of a Manhattan training and development company, acquired a second location for it, doubled its client base, and reinvigorated its philanthropic activities.

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5 Ways to Protect Your Property from Crime

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There is no doubt that your home – and your business –are your most important and expensive investments. As countries across the world report rising crime rates, it is important to ensure that your home is safe and secure at all times. Simple security measures can be great when it comes to avoiding crime incidents from taking place. However, most of us feel that something of this nature is never going to happen with us.

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Transformify Freelancer Management System (FMS) Partners With Xoxoday to Boost Its Expansion Across Asia

Transformify

Transformify , a UK-based Freelancer Management System (FMS), has partnered up with Xoxoday , an HR Software company based in India that has offices in Singapore, Australia, the US, Ireland and the Philippines, to boost its expansion across Asia. As millions of businesses in Asia have shifted to external workforce on-demand to optimize costs and increase flexibility, it comes to no surprise that the demand for the contingent workforce management solution provided by Transformify Freelancer Manag

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5 Things Everyone Suspected of a Crime Should Know

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Many people believe that if they have not done anything wrong, they will not be imprisoned or falsely accused of a crime. This is a mistake, which you should not make under any circumstances. Being stopped by the police is not something, which automatically makes you guilty. In this article, we are going to discuss some rights, which you should be aware of when you are being suspected of a crime of any nature.

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Key Tips For Enhancing Your Team’s Remote Selling Abilities

YoungUpstarts

If your business is just getting started with remote selling, you may find your team feeling unsure about how they will adapt to the setup. However, the transition to remote selling doesn’t have to be a challenge. There are effective ways you can help your team improve their selling abilities. No matter how big or small your remote selling teams are, whether you focus on a single niche or multiple ones, you can help your team adjust and do their best with remote selling.

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Making Our Commercial Spaces Safer for Women

Women Entrepreneurs Can

No matter how strict the laws and regulations become, or if the companies happily embrace them or not, it would still be inadequate to ensure the safety of our women colleagues at the workplace. And, surprisingly, increasing reports of mishandling, eve-teasing, and molestation cases at the workplace against women are proof of this statement. So, what else can we do to ensure safety for women?

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How To Get Started With A Real Estate Investing Business

YoungUpstarts

Real estate is a risky investment, but once you know the market, it’ll pay off and can be lucrative. This is the reason why many people show interest in starting their own real estate investing business. Unfortunately, not all are knowledgeable on how to get started. If you’re planning to put up your own real estate investing business, make sure to keep the following in mind: Set Your Business Goals.

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Small business startups – Is it possible to succeed with an internet-only business

The Startup Magazine

2020 has been a strange year for business, and the economic climate right now is more challenging than at any point in recent memory. With the markets in turmoil and the on-going threat of Coronavirus shutting towns and cities around the globe, you might be forgiven for asking if there’s any point trying to start a business at all right now. Traditional high street shopping has been struggling for many years, and the effects of lockdown most certainly haven’t helped smaller local bus

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8 Ways To Keep Your Business Protected In Hard Times

YoungUpstarts

No matter what the reason, when things take a turn for the worst, it is important that you take strategic actions to sustain your company. Therefore, in tough times, you need to know some tips for your small business survival. A good company plan should be set into action under these tough market conditions to enable you to protect your business well.

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The Future of Work at Capital Factory Post-COVID

Austin Startup

[link] The Future of Work at Capital Factory Post-COVID Coworking is dead until COVID passes. Capital Factory has gone fully virtual with daily Ask Me Anything sessions in and hundreds of Mentor Office Hours each week. We’re hosting massive virtual events in our new virtual office that are teaching us new ways to engage that will last long after COVID is gone.

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Your A to Z Guide to Personal Branding

Women Entrepreneurs Can

What comes to mind when you think of companies like Fenty Beauty? Likely, you thought of the company’s founder, Rihanna. This connection between her brand and herself is a great example of personal branding, the idea that your skills, personality, and experience make up how people view you and how you can market yourself to the world. But what is personal branding, and how can you use personal branding to stand out ?