Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2021

Happy new year! We hope you’re well rested and recharged from the holidays! While 2020 brought unprecedented challenges, it’s also been a time of great innovation and perseverance. We’ve seen our startup companies find new ways to keep moving forward. Here’s a quick look back at some of the biggest (public) highlights of Q4. It’s incredible to see how much everyone has been able to accomplish despite the fact that every aspect of life has been dramatically altered.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 4, 2021

So much gets lost in the translation when communication isn’t clear. That’s never a good thing when it comes to board communication. Communication is difficult enough when you’re speaking face-to-face. Prior to the year 2019, the business world had been making a gradual move in the direction of virtual communication. With the onset of the pandemic and the need for safety, boards scrambled to set up virtual communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

After working many years in business, both in large companies as well as startups, I’ve realized that you can learn more from peers and mentors than from any formal education program. Of course, nothing beats learning from your mistakes , but that’s a painful and very time-consuming journey. Best of all, I find mentoring to be fun and fulfilling for both the giver and the receiver.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2021

by Derek Halpern , Senior Vice President of Sales for Nvoicepay. The pandemic, though terrible, has given us much-needed time to pause, reflect, and perhaps make some changes to the way we live our lives. We have a chance to reevaluate what is really important to us. What brings us happiness? What drains our energy? What experiences add meaning to our days?

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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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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

The difference between a small business success and a swift crash and burn is often the foundation you build from day one.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2021

The main way to maximize rewards from your business purchases is by using a credit card with a benefit or reward system to make said purchases. In the sea of ??credit cards that offer you rewards, credit cards with cashback stand out for how simple they are. The refund you generate when making a purchase with this type of credit card does not require conversion, transfer or redemption to maximize its value.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2021

by Shayne Tilley, Head of Marketing at 99designs. As we round the corner on what’s been one of the most challenging years in history, many business owners and entrepreneurs are already planning for a brighter future in 2021 with brand makeovers or even new product launches on the horizon. . Whether you’re looking for creative inspiration for a new brand or thinking of ways to freshen and modernize an existing business, being aware of emerging trends is a good place to start.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2021

Like you, I consume a whole lot of reports every day – company data, public data. Many are acceptable, some are very good and all the rest leave me extremely frustrated with both the ink and the think. People make so many obvious mistakes. Sometimes repeatedly. Just yesterday I was quietly seething because none of visuals included in the report contained any context to understand if the performance I was looking at was good or bad.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2021

The end of 2020 cannot come quickly enough for the majority of startups and small businesses. The arrival of 2021 brings the new tax season, which could be a difficult one following the programs introduced to combat the financial problems caused by COVID-19. The 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has brought several changes for startups to cope with, according to Business News Daily.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2021

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Here are some takeaways from the video: The secret to real happiness is progress. Value your time. Start right here and now. Take control of the process. Decide to change if you’re not going to be a wimp. Resolution is cutting any possibility apart from that you have committed to.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2021

Victims of accidents or crimes may think that there’s plenty of time to pursue a case. That would depend on the state in which they live, due to the limited time that the law allows to file a case. This term is called the statute of limitations. The statute of limitations also depends on the severity of the case. However, it does not apply to severe crimes such as crimes against humanity, war crimes, violent crimes, among others.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 4, 2021

Back in April, not long after COVID-19 hit, Lew Visscher from Lew’s List , Phil Vottiero from High Plains Advisors , and I launched the Covid-19 Finance Assistance Network (FAN) The network partnered volunteer CFOs with small businesses that were in need of financial guidance on carrying their business through the crisis and navigating the Federal programs from the CARES Act.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 4, 2021

Creativity is a Choice and a Habit. Join the Creative Flow Challenge. Starts Jan. 11th — 18 Days to Creative Power. Learn How to Apply Creativity to All Your Projects. Yes, you can improve your creativity. It doesn’t matter if you think you’re creative or not. It doesn’t matter if you can’t draw, write poems, paint lovely pictures, play guitar like Eric Clapton, sing like Joni Mitchell, or improv like Robin Williams.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 4, 2021

Are you thinking about attending a trade show with your business? This certainly presents a lot of potential for a company or brand. However, you do need to make sure that you are taking the right steps here. These are some of the options that we recommend that you keep in mind. Make It Memorable. First, you need to make sure that you understand some of the best ways to guarantee that your appearance at the trade show is memorable and catches the right level of attention.

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Our Own Start-up

JANUARY 4, 2021

Security is likely one of your main concerns in protecting your company and the employees from external physical threats. The post How to protect your business from potential threats while gaining your employees' trust first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 4, 2021

Having women in leadership positions is very important now more than ever. Gone are the days when women were confined in the kitchen or at home, but now, they can confidently go for any position, including the presidency, without fear. Although women have to break stereotype barriers to get into leadership positions, they portray that they too have the same if not better leadership qualities as men.

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Our Own Start-up

JANUARY 4, 2021

There are many ways to simply but effectively introduce your company to the public. Giving out promotional products are a great way to put your company’s name and logo in public view. The post What's in a name? Effective promotional items that will get your business's name out first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 4, 2021

When it comes to growing your business, hiring a new employee is arguably one of the largest expenses that you need to consider. Posting your job listing on multiple websites and getting it noticed can cost a lot of money. The recruitment process itself can also be expensive, especially if you’re not taking it seriously. As such, there are going to be lots of hidden expenses in the recruitment process that will cost you more money than you might think.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2021

Having a career in the fashion industry doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to launch your own fashion brand. Although this may be a dream for many, there is an array of jobs available in the fashion sector including positions like, textile designer, fashion buyer, stylist , photographer, fashion merchandiser, and illustrator. The possibilities are endless; however, the fashion industry is highly selective and difficult to tap into.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 4, 2021

While you are running a business, you are in charge of ensuring that your employees are as happy and as healthy as possible. Whether you have salaried employees working for you full time or you pay an hourly staff, you need to ensure that they are not burning out on the job. Exhaustion in the workplace is very real, so you need to ensure that the people working for you are using their time as efficiently as possible no matter what.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 4, 2021

Email marketing has resurfaced as one of the most effective ways to reach audiences. While many companies spend entire budgets trying to improve their social media presence and get heard above the noise, email campaigns offer a more personalized and direct approach, even when it comes to new audiences. That being said, nobody likes spam. The current rise of newsletters as an informative and entertainment medium has proven that audiences are drawn to receiving content that’s not just interested

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 4, 2021

Running a business is difficult these days. There are countless different factors to consider when making decisions for your business and it’s also difficult to get the assistance that you need with minimal investment. Sure, most people are fine learning via trial and error, but it gets to a point where you simply can’t afford to waste any more time.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 4, 2021

Can you run a business without keeping records? The obvious answer to this question is ‘no.’ There is no way you can run a business without keeping records, irrespective of your business’s size. Data is the backbone of your business since even the law requires you to document everything happening in your business. You need to keep your business data safely and in an organized manner.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 4, 2021

Technology has made the majority of things easier and more accessible and since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, going digital has never been so important. Any businesses that rely on files of paper and documents which aren’t digitized will have struggled when employees have to work from home in the last year. While it seems like a given that everything is just online and digitized now, it can easily be forgotten that this is not the case.

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