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5 Startup Intangibles That Can Energize Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision. In the last few years, perhaps in reaction to the business integrity issues leading to the recession way back in 2008, I am seeing a renewed focus on other less tangible attribu

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The Refrigeration Business Is Making Big Strides In 2019

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to the refrigeration or the heating and cooling industry there has always been a lot of controversy surrounding Freon. Freon is that gas that allows refrigerators and air conditioners to cool. Without this gas, a refrigerator or air conditioner wouldn’t be able to lower cool. Even though the gas is so important to the industry it has been highly regulated and changed over the years.

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5 First-Year Startup Mistakes

The Startup Magazine

So you’ve got a great idea for your business and you’re ready to open your startup company. However, you’re also scared about the well-known statistics surrounding startups. Whilst global startups have always embraced entrepreneurial flair, statistics also show that eight in ten of its companies fail within their first year. You need to know how to become one of the two that makes it through this challenging time without startup mistakes.

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How Small Online Businesses Can Compete With Amazon

YoungUpstarts

We’re still fresh on the heels of the holiday shopping season. This shopping season, which once counted on the effects of shoppers storming brick-and-mortar retailers on Black Friday, is now much more dependent on the sales from internet retailers on what’s dubbed Cyber Monday. Adobe Analytics recently reported that e-commerce sales alone hit $8 billion this Cyber Monday!

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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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Sevens Don't Get Funded

This is going to be BIG.

Ask any VC how excited on a scale of one to ten they are about their latest deal, and they’ll tell you eleven out of ten. Veterans will probably be a little more cautious and tell you they’re at a ten out of ten—but despite knowing all the risks, a VC simply isn’t going to get over the line unless they’re pretty blown away by an idea. That’s because of the simple math of competition.

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5 Benefits of Training and Development in the Workplace

The Startup Magazine

Every business has some form of employee training , but there are reasons to go above and beyond the basics. Having engaging, ongoing worker training and development at work can bring a range of positive outcomes. Here are five potential benefits that can come from investing in the development of your employees. Improve Collaboration Between Workers.

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How To Run A One-Person-Show Business

The Startup Magazine

When an entrepreneur is starting, a lot rests on their ability to multitask. Revenues at this point cannot support having another staff present, and therefore they have to run the company alone. It is exciting at the beginning, but it does take a toll on one’s mind and body, as companies are not meant to be run alone. Growth is what pushes most people to expand.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: November 11th – January 5th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my three most popular tweets for the past eight weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top Three Tweets. Amen: “about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -Steve Jobs [link].

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Getting Started With Earning Multiple Income Streams

YoungUpstarts

by Brian King, Marketing Director for Compass Offices. It’s always nice to have a little more money to spare. Whether it’s to finance your next getaway, upgrade your car, or to fund your new startup. Yet there are only so many hours in a day you can put in for work. Unless you’re in the kind of job that pays by the hour, it’s hard to earn more just by working longer hours.

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Universal Manufacturing Corp: Tips for Successful Marketing in the Digital Age

The Startup Magazine

Showing one’s products to the right people is the foundation of maximizing sales. In fact, knowing how to advertise is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of long-term success. In 2018, this is further amplified by the fact that competition in every single market is fierce. After all, it is practically impossible to think of an industry where one can enter and not face extensive barriers.

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