Fri.Apr 17, 2020

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5 Tips To Help You Lead And Experiment During COVID-19 

YoungUpstarts

by Melanie Parish, MCC, author of “ The Experimental Leader: Be a New Kind of Boss to Cultivate an Organization of Innovators “. These are crazy times we are living in. As a leader, during COVID -9 (or any crisis) it can be hard to find your feet and to feel confident in your path. You may feel inadequate, unsure and out of your depth. That is to be expected.

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Make4Covid Is Having An Impact In Colorado

Feld Thoughts

Make4Covid is a new Colorado-based volunteer organization of makers working on making stuff related to the Covid crisis. They were started 26 days ago, have 2023 community volunteers, are working with 105 organizations, and have delivered 14,335 pieces of PPE as of this morning. I’ve been in the Slack channel from inception and it’s just amazing to see what they’ve done.

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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Social Media is a funny place. We’re all used to seeing countless celebrities flaunting themselves in Instagram stories, or the endless stream of “lifestyle bloggers” writing about how to decorate your house for fall, and what nail polish goes with auburn hair highlights. There is a new breed of blogger (and vlogger!) making waves across the platforms; the medical professionals.

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Four Ways Business will Change in the Near Future

The Startup Magazine

With the rapid development of technologies, the way we work is bound to change. And it really does. The way we work is changing every day. But with all the slacking, video conference calls and chatting, business are changing and it’s always interesting to see how exactly it reacts to outside influences and adapt to significant changes. So, from changing the way companies are hiring, where the vast majority of the work is done and how they provide their services, let’s go over four things that a

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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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5 Steps to start your dream business online

Our Own Start-up

Here are a handful of the basic steps you need to take in order to put your business in a position to be successful.

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How to choose a proposal management software

The Startup Magazine

Hearing “Send me a proposal” from a prospect feels good. But actually sitting down and writing a proposal from scratch may seem like a daunting task. Luckily, long gone are the days when you had no other choice but to send your proposals in Word, PDF or other uncomfortable formats. These days, sending a winning proposal is a breeze thanks to modern proposal management software.

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“Did I intend to stay there for seven years? Hells no. But man, it’s a tough place to leave.” Five Questions on Startups, Newsletters & Life Post-Airbnb w Lenny Rachitsky

Hunter Walker

Our friendship began as many do – in a bar a few days after I’d been told that Lenny (a) just left airbnb and (b) was smart. Upon receiving the tip I clicked over to his Twitter profile where I saw that indeed he had left airbnb and that he was clearly super duper smart because he already followed me. A DM-slide and poof! cocktails and product management war stories ensued.

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6 reasons Indians choose not to become entrepreneur

Our Own Start-up

Check out six listed reasons why Indians choose not to become entrepreneurs.

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7 Winning Business Writing Pointers For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter.

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Creative Ways to Advertise Your Business

The Startup Magazine

As a business, it’s your job to figure out how you’ll reach your target market. Advertising has long been an effective way to capture attention, but the problem is that the average person is bombarded by 5,000 ads per day. You may not realize it, but you’ll see potentially hundreds of ads browsing the internet, not to mention any ads you see while you’re out and about or in stores.

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The impact of Covid-19 on Livestreaming adoption

VC Cafe

Humans are social creatures. We want to connect and communicate. In my previous post I looked at virtual events in the age of social distancing. Benedict Evans wrote an excellent piece on forced experiments on a large scale as a result of Covid-19. The first mass experiment is remote working. The tools for working from home went from a nice-to-have, to must-have, almost overnight.

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Building Referral Traffic Through Content Marketing and Link Outreach

The Startup Magazine

In the world of website traffic, there are typically three types of traffic that’s driven to your site: search engine traffic, direct traffic, and referral traffic. Each traffic type brings its own unique value and serves a specific purpose for a website but what makes referral traffic so great is that it’s driven by merit and websites wear it like a badge of honor.