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4 Key Business Culture Drivers You Have To Get Right

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. What does it take to create a positive workplace culture?

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5 Lessons Public Speakers Can Learn From Stand-up Comedians

YFS Magazine



For an aspiring public speaker, stand-up comedy can do more than crack you up. Here are 5 lessons to improve your next keynote.

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How To Provide Top-Quality Support For Online Customers

The Startup Magazine

If your business works with customers through the Internet, providing top-quality support is absolutely essential. When someone interacts with your business, they should have a good experience from start to finish. This includes making sure that their questions are answered and that they can easily get the help they need whenever they need it. Developing a strong system for providing customer service support through the Internet can have a major impact on how successful your company is in the fu

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3 Ways To Sell Your Expertise And Become An Industry Leader

YFS Magazine

Ready to become an industry leader? It's no longer a question of "if" you should sell your expertise and skills online, it's simply a matter of "how".

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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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Startup Grind Fuels Gibraltar Entrepreneurship

The Startup Magazine

Gibraltar might be in a state uncertainty at the moment as the UK has begun negotiations to leave the European Union after the nation voted in favour of Brexit. Yet that hasn’t stopped Gibraltar from furthering its reputation as a business and start-up haven, with the news that Startup Grind have now opened their very own hub in the community. Startup Grind itself is an organisation created by Derek Andersen and Spencer Nielsen that was founded in 2010 that aims to mentor and teach people who wo

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Why we need to start before we finish

Start Up Blog

There’s something interesting entrepreneurs and technologists can take from rock bands. When playing live of stage and someone in the band makes a mistake, they don’t stop, they just keep on playing. When rehearsing, it’s important to play the song right through to the end, regardless of mistakes. The only way to practice, is to do.

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15 Must Watch YouTube Channels for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners

crowdSPRING Blog

Video content is becoming more and more popular. Last year, video continued to skyrocket in popularity and represents 74% of all online traffic in 2017. In fact, studies suggest that people prefer video content to written content, and are more likely to learn from it. For entrepreneurs, this is important because they are constantly working on personal growth.

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How Startups Manage Increasing Financial Trade

The Startup Magazine

As a business earns more money, requires bigger loans and accepts larger quantities of payments, things can get complicated and they need more effective payment processes. Many companies in their first year or two may not realize the payment issues they need to consider later down the track. As businesses receive greater trade they will need to scale up their payment processes and financial systems with quicker deals and larger quantities of money.

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Do I need a PPM for my startup’s financing?

Austin Startup

TL;DR : Legally speaking, probably not. Most tech startups never prepare one. PPM stands for “Private Placement Memorandum.” You can think of it as the private company equivalent of an S-1 , the long disclosure document that companies produce when going IPO. PPMs are lengthy documents that include risk factors, financial projections, business plan information, etc.

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5 Marketing Automation Tools to Increase Lead Conversions

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Marketing Automation Tools to Increase Lead Conversions written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing automation helps small businesses compete with large organizations by helping them accomplish more with less manpower and time. Automation need not necessarily be expensive, contrary to popular beliefs. Most of this software offer affordable monthly subscriptions.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: May 4th – June 9th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past five weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. I’m still getting calls & emails regarding our Startup Package. Here’s my favorite clip with Uncle @Jason discussing pricing, etc. => [link]. still love this: “whoever needs the deal least has the most leverage in a negotiati

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Distribution

Ben's Blog

“I’m into distribution, I’m like Atlantic.

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Monthly Match: The Human Utility #GiveWater

Feld Thoughts

Does it surprise you that some people in the United States don’t have regular access to water? Our month match for June is The Human Utility. Fred Wilson, Joanne Wilson, Amy Batchelor, and I are matching up to $20,000 of contributions via our #GiveWater campaign. Hunter Walk introduced us to The Human Utility at the beginning of the year. Access to water has always been something that Amy and I support.

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The 5 things you need to build something great

Jeff Hilimire

I gave a talk yesterday at an AMA event about 48in48 , the nonprofit I co-founded with Adam in 2015. The talk was about the genesis of 48in48, but I started by going through my entrepreneurial journey and identifying the 5 things that, when present, allowed me to find success. And when any one of them was missing, I failed badly. I wrote them on a whiteboard throughout my talk (see above.). #1 Passion.