Tue.May 05, 2020

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What Small Businesses Can Do To Survive And Thrive During The Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

by Itamar Gero, founder and CEO of SEOReseller.com . Uncertainty and fear have been going through people’s minds as the pandemic continues to affect most aspects of human life around the world. The US economy has not been immune to this. In fact, the last few weeks have been particularly devastating for the market. According to ABC News, another 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, adding to the approximately 10 million people who have already filed for benefits amid the outb

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6 More Days to Apply – Calling All Founders

View from Seed

We’ve been pretty blown away by the initial response to our Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator that we announced two weeks ago. Both the volume and the quality of submissions have far exceeded our expectations, and we are starting to schedule and conduct interviews this week. One of the core reasons for creating this accelerator was to expand the aperture of the founders we have a chance to interact with.

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Overcoming Unconscious Bias In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

by Anita Sanchez, Ph.D., author of “ The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times ”. Professional training menus include unconscious bias training in the USA and around the world. The reasoning behind this trend is sound. It’s grounded in a commitment to the advantages of workforce diversity , which include attracting a wider pool of skilled employees, fostering increased creativity, improving decision-making, enhancing teamwork, and achieving exemplary customer service and communi

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GivingTuesdayNow – Colorado COVID Relief Fund

Feld Thoughts

If you have a job, have been working from home, and haven’t been spending extra money on Starbucks (or local) coffee, lunch or dinner out, or other random things you spend money on during the day while at work, please consider making a donation to the Colorado COVID Relief Fund today. All contributions made today up to $250,000 will be matched by an anonymous donor.

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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 To Find Initial Success With A New Startup

YoungUpstarts

The early days of a new startup after launching can be incredibly stressful as you will be desperate to start attracting customers so that you can bring some money in while starting to build a reputation for yourself. This is not an easy task, though, and this is the period where many startups struggle, which often, sadly, leads them to fold shortly after.

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Michael Moritz column on the winners and losers in the wake of Covid-19

VC Cafe

In his opinion column on the Financial Times titled “ The business world can never go back to the way things were “, famed Sequoia partner Michael Moritz articulates what he believes are the winners and losers in the wake of the “New Normal” post Covid-19 lockdown. Winners ? (all conduct their business over the internet). Services to the home Cloud kitchens Remote work Grocery/ pharmacy deliveries Online exercise equipment Video streaming services Telemedicine Edtech Secu

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5 Greatest Myths About Working From Home and Are They True?

Up and Running

For many of you, the benefits and challenges of working from home have become your reality over the past month. You may feel like you’ve really gotten the hang of it; you have your routine of waking up, heading straight to the coffee pot, then getting right to work in your own little office space you’ve created. However, your boss, coworkers, friends, and family (or maybe even you) aren’t fully convinced that working from home is a potential path to success. .

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Globalisation vs Nationalism – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

Last week I was invited by TED to lead their live Circles event discussion. The topic was Nationalism versus Globalisation. As preparation, all participants had viewed this TED talk on how nationalism and globalisation can co-exist. I then led a discussion to take a deeper look at the subject, in the context of a post-COVID-19 world. These are my conclusions, which I think provide a solid template for examining the global economy: The False Dichotomy: We don’t live in a world that is eit

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How to Make Money From Home Today

Women Entrepreneurs Can

With the current restrictions on which businesses can be open and functioning during the shelter in place orders in effect throughout most of the country, many people are finding themselves out of work, with reduced hours, or generally struggling to make ends meet. Many families are having to find new ways to make money. Check out this guide on how to make money from home.

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AMP for Email: Everything You Need to Know

ConversionXL

AMP for email is, at this point, a trend. Will it become a standard practice? There are pros and cons. The latter, in particular, relate to the still-in-progress status of the technology and required skills for implementation. But there are potential benefits, too. This post walks through everything you need to know. What’s the point of AMP for email?

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B2B Companies Need to Market to C-Suite Executives. Forget the Rest

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Economists like to say that the “consumer” has sovereignty. It’s a silly way of saying something self-evident – people decide what they buy. But that’s the consumer market – the end-stage of the market system. It doesn’t apply to all the transactions that occur behind-the-scenes between businesses. Nor does it account for the entire edifice of production and the millions of relationships between suppliers across the chain.

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What We are Missing in the Virtual World

Duct Tape Marketing

What We are Missing in the Virtual World written by Jenna Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steve Blank. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Steve Blank, considered one of the fathers of modern entrepreneurship – is a seral entrepreneur-turned best selling author and educator. Steve focuses on how startups are built, how entrepreneurship is taught, and how big companies and the U.S. government innovate.

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The 4 Factors That Determine the Value of Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

How do you make your business worth as much as possible and make it appeal to many more buyers at the same time? What makes a $500K business different from a business that is worth $750K? Aside from the annual profit, there are a litany of factors that will contribute or detract from the value of your business. For simplicity, we classify these factors into four larger categories: risk, transferability, growth prospects and verifiability.