Sun.Oct 06, 2019

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Why Startups Should Focus On Software Testing

YoungUpstarts

by Hardik Shah, Tech Consultant at Simform. According to Capgemini’s World Quality Report 2018-19 , Companies are now spending an average of 35% of their IT budget on QA and testing — a 9% year-on-year increase. The report was based on a global survey of IT executives and testing leaders from different countries. It’s actually good that the companies have started realising the importance of the testing phase in the software development life cycle.

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6 Lessons For Business Leaders From Military Training

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to be extra tough mentally to start a new business venture. While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it’s too late, and never give up on achieving their objective.

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Employees: Your Best Line of Defense Against Cyber Attacks

YoungUpstarts

Contrary to popular belief, cyber attacks can affect small businesses. In fact, hackers often target smaller companies because they expect them to be less prepared and fortified. As a business owner, understand that your employees may be your best line of defense against these attacks. Protecting, Empowering, and Leveraging Employees. According to data published in the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report, 43 percent of all cyber attacks target small businesses.

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Elevate Your Networking

Mike Michalowicz

The cornerstone for running a profitable business is to remember that as an entrepreneur, we are here to provide a service and to build our business and local communities. This means you must build a hearty relationship with them. One of the key strategies to obtain that relationship? Networking! Yuck. At least, yuck, if this is the visual: A mandatory and artificial meet and greet with a bunch of people in their Sunday best mulling around a convention hall, pitching their wares and handing out

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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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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.