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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

Gust

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation.

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What Is Employer Negligence And How Can It Affect Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

Employer negligence refers to an employer’s failure to take appropriate safety measures to protect workers from injury or death while on the job. The post What Is Employer Negligence And How Can It Affect Your Business? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Founder Mental Health Pledge

Feld Thoughts

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. This stress accelerated on Friday when the FDIC shut down and took over Silicon Valley Bank. By late Friday, anyone who banked with SVB was concerned about … well … everything. Once it became clear that payroll accounts needed to be funded on Monday to make Wednesday’s payroll, we focused on the immediate short-term to ensure our portfolio companies’ thousands of e

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5 Hacks For Great Video Meetings

YoungUpstarts

It’s time to use video meetings and experiment with new ways to deliver information, incorporating speed, melody, tone, pauses, eye contact, body language, and interactions. The post 5 Hacks For Great Video Meetings appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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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Colossal Aims to Revive Woolly Mammoths by 2028, Says CEO Ben Lamm at SXSW Conference

SiliconHills

Colossal is on track to produce a woolly mammoth by 2028, said Ben Lamm, the company’s CEO, and Co-founder. “I think we’re on the path for that,” Lamm said during a discussion on Colossal’s De-Extinction Mission at South by Southwest Tuesday afternoon.

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5 Habits Every Business Owner Needs To Have

YoungUpstarts

From emotional intelligence to communication skills, there are some habits and behaviors that all business owners need to have. The post 5 Habits Every Business Owner Needs To Have appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Maximizing Your Potential: How To Match Your Personality Traits With The Right Career

YoungUpstarts

Every individual has a one-of-a-kind set of abilities and characteristics that make them more suited to certain vocations than others. The post Maximizing Your Potential: How To Match Your Personality Traits With The Right Career appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Fractional Consulting Project Template in Notion

Eric Friedman

I have been doing Fractional COO work for the past few years. Throughout this time I deliver operational excellent to companies that need to avoid mistakes, see around corners, and efficiently run their business. These consulting projects have led me to a system that I use will almost every client in Notion. For the first time I am giving it away through Gumroad – here is a link to my Fractional Consulting Project Template in Notion.

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Understanding Short-Term vs. Long-Term Goals (Examples Included)

Board Effect

Every board needs directors who are great visionaries, and understanding the difference between short-term vs. long-term goals can help bring your nonprofit’s vision to life. Beyond the obvious, knowing the differences between short-term and long-term goal planning can help nonprofits navigate a course from the present to the future while showing demonstrated progress toward achieving their goals.