Wed.Jan 13, 2021

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

This year will mark the 10 th year anniversary of NextView. I’ll be writing a number of posts looking back over the first decade of the life of this firm. In some ways, this feels like an eternity. But in the grand scheme of things, 10 years is a blip, and one that had a continuous bull market in tech. So whatever conclusions or observations I draw should be seen in this context.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Takeaways from 2020

Hearpreneur

The start and ongoing of a business can be rewarding and exhausting at the same time. Running a business successfully encompasses learning from mistakes that happen along the way which in the end, helps your business to be more strategic and to get back on track. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the tough lessons they have learned in 2020. #1- Balance is key.

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How to Future-Proof Your Legal Obligations

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you run a business, you’ll have all kinds of responsibilities and obligations to maintain. If you don’t keep on top of them, you run the risk of ending up with all manner of litigation problems. One thing you must absolutely enforce in your business is your legal obligations. The last thing you want to happen is for your company to get sued by customers, employees, or even the government, for failing to adhere to your legal obligations.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: How To Prepare Yourself For Opening A Business

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business can be a daunting experience. As an entrepreneur, you need to ensure that there is enough demand for your offerings in the marketplace and have the right systems in place to meet those demands. With so many different aspects of your business to manage, it’s important that you have a clearly defined plan in place before you open your business to the public. .

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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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DivInc Announces Nominees for its Third Annual Champions of Change Awards in Austin

SiliconHills

DivInc, the nonprofit accelerator focused on fostering diverse startups, has announced the finalists for its third annual Champions of Change Awards. The virtual event will take place online on March 4th. DivInc’s 2021 event has a goal to raise $100,000 for its “2021 Social Justice Innovation Program which supports social justice innovators addressing inequities and […].

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How To Find Trending Products For Dropshipping

YoungUpstarts

eCommerce is booming as more shoppers and merchants are buying and selling online. The increase in internet commerce has led to the rise of dropshipping as merchants find opportunities to sell goods without dealing with inventory or heavy overhead. The dropshipping market was projected to grow by 28.8% between 2019 and 2025. The way to remain competitive in a growing dropshipping market is to choose the right products.

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Six Best Time Tracking Software For Accountants

YoungUpstarts

Finding it difficult to track time and money at the same time? Here are six time tracking software particularly helpful for accountants. The post Six Best Time Tracking Software For Accountants appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How Is The 54th Week of 2020 Going For You?

Feld Thoughts

At lunch today, Amy said “Welcome to January 112th.” I just got an email from a friend that included the line, “I’m writing off the first 20 days of the year, so here’s to a much different 2021 starting next week!” I didn’t really mark the end of the year as the “end of this phase.” The Covid crisis continues.

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Set Your Atomic Habits

Mike Michalowicz

We just had our quarterly retreat. And while there was some good fun, including a murder mystery (I didn’t do it), we also got down to the nitty gritty. We asked each other, and ourselves – Are you creating better habits to achieve your goals? Gulp. At our retreat a year ago, we created goal boards and hung them up on a wall in the office for all to see.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Pivots or Changes They’re Making in 2021

Hearpreneur

Every new year brings with it a new form of excitement and anticipation. The reason is that every new year brings about a “newness” for lack of a better term when we are able to start fresh and change those things that we did bad or things we have been thinking about doing. For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. So that’s why we are excited about 2020 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses.

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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Shared Governance Models for Higher Education?

Board Effect

Of the thousands of industries that have been badly affected by the impact of COVID-19, higher education ranks high on the list. In the interest of safety, colleges and universities the world over have had to make drastic decisions like canceling or postponing classes, canceling international programs, switching to online courses, and in some cases, shutting down onsite classes altogether.

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No More Rejection! Here’s How You Can Get Your Loan Approved

Women Entrepreneurs Can

‘It is easy to get a loan unless you need it’ – Norman Ralph Augustine. A harsh truth, right? Every day you might get hundreds of calls, texts, or emails from different banks and financial institutions ready to provide you a personal loan. However, suddenly, when you need a loan, it becomes next to impossible to get your loan approved. In fact, Digital Finance Analytics research showed that around 40% of the loan applications and 48% of the refinance applications were declined in 2018.

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Make your products differentiating through lip gloss box

Our Own Start-up

Packaging with informative details about the items would influence the buying decision of shoppers. The post Make your products differentiating through lip gloss box first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Capture the Profits with These Unique Photography Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

‘Photography isn’t about capturing what can be seen by naked eyes. It’s about exploring the unexplored and presenting it to the world.’ Do you love to capture the uniqueness of the world in your camera? Is doing photoshoot more than just a hobby? Do you want to travel all over the world, click pictures and earn money with them?

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4 Ways to prevent accidents at your workplace

Our Own Start-up

Regardless of the industry and occupation, every business needs an action plan and the full participation of the staff to prevent workplace accidents. The post 4 Ways to prevent accidents at your workplace first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Now’s the Time to Add Some Green to Your Premises

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Now is the best time to transform your business premises. Indeed, as the pandemic has forced many companies to temporarily move their business processes online, most teams are working in a home-office environment. Empty premises become a playground for improvement projects and decor upgrades. On this note, there’s an essential question to ask. Will all businesses carry on operating with remote teams once the pandemic is over?

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5 Proven strategies on how to market your gym

Our Own Start-up

A gym owner must learn how to promote their business to accommodate the needs of all their clients. The post 5 Proven strategies on how to market your gym first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Low Volume Manufacturing Benefits

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When creating a part or product, the production volume you choose has a large impact on its overall success. In many cases, low volume production is highly advantageous. Low volume manufacturing generally refers to production volumes between 50 and 100,000 parts. It serves as a middle ground between rapid prototyping and full-scale production. To learn about low volume manufacturing benefits, continue reading.

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5 SaaS strategies to take your B2B Customer experience a notch higher

Our Own Start-up

Before learning more about the strategies, you can implement to take your customer experience to the next level, you need to understand why it matters a tad more in the SaaS landscape. The post 5 SaaS strategies to take your B2B Customer experience a notch higher first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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What I Learned Publishing 200+ Blog Posts on CXL

ConversionXL

This is my last week at CXL. It’s bittersweet. I started on a Monday and published my first post on a Thursday. Since then, it’s been rinse and repeat for nearly two-and-a-half years. In sum, I wrote 46 posts and edited another 156. That works out to about a half-million words and a new post every 4 days for 870 days. Through it all, here’s what I figured out—and what I failed to solve. 5 things I learned. 1.

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4 Ways to spread the word of mouth about your new startup location

Our Own Start-up

While there are many ways to build word of mouth, here are a few of the ways that work most often. The post 4 Ways to spread the word of mouth about your new startup location first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Can You Turn Your Love Of Sports Into A Business?

YoungUpstarts

One of the single best ways to create a business model that you can put your passion and effort behind is to work in a field that matches what drives and interests you. Some people find their path easily, but others might wonder how exactly they can turn their passion into something sustainable and profitable. For instance, you might be into sports but, without being an athlete yourself, how exactly do you make money from that?

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6 Market Environments Where Execution Trumps Planning

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business adviser, I often see entrepreneurs practicing what Tom Peters calls the “ ready-fire-aim ” go-to-market strategy to their detriment. Yet even I have been known to recommend that approach, in cases where you have a highly innovative product, speed is of the essence, and no clear existing market is available. In fact, you probably won’t get it right the first time anyway.

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Seven Things Every Leader Should Stop Doing In 2021

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change “ The times they are a-changing… and so is the nature of our work. And as our familiar world crumbles around us (thanks, COVID-19!) — and technology keeps snapping up more and more of the tasks humans have always done — we’ll need a whole new set of skills. And that means leaders have some very bad habits to break.

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How I Moved from Counting Calories to Supercharging My Workouts and Massively Improve My Fitness…

Both Sides of the Table

How I Shifted from Just Counting Calories to Supercharging My Fitness Workouts This is part of a weight loss and fitness improvement series that I’m writing to share how I went from 222 pounds and unable to bike more than 20 minutes on a Peloton to 153 pounds and running 8–12 miles / day in just 18 months. I’m no superhero and I’m not going to give you some unrealistic story that is unachievable.

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#AMA with :20 Min VC

Reid Hoffman

You asked, Reid Hoffman and Harry Stebbings answered. The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. In this episode of Greymatter, Harry guest hosts and extends the conversation with Reid that covers everything from Hoffman’s early days as a “baby entrepreneur” launching SocialNet and his subsequent startup experience as an early execu