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7 Myths And Reality On Employees Thinking Like Owners

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business.

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How To Save Money In Business: 10 Tips For Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses and young entrepreneurs are in a difficult position in the market. They have to make their little voice stand out in an already loud area. And they have to do it fast or else – they’ll run out of money. Around half of all startups fail by their fifth year. Of those, 29% running out of cash as their reason for failure. This explains why saving money as much as you can is important – not only because you have limited capital, but also because you risk losing money the longer you s

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Using Bitcoin Profit in Your Startup Financial Processes?

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin is what is known as a cryptocurrency. It can be used online to make payments if the person receiving the payment will accept the currency.There are currently a number of merchants who are prepared to make trades using Bitcoin and as the advantages of the currency become clear, more and more merchants are coming on board. For startups, the opportunity is twofold.

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How New Technologies Enabled These Young Entrepreneurs To Threaten The Traditional Retail Landscape

YoungUpstarts

The pace of change in consumer behaviour has never been higher than in the last couple of years. While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. Although Amazon is certainly the most dominant player within this field, there are smaller firms which can offer attractive services to consumers and push traditional and slow adjusting retailers out of the market.

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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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Tech Interview: CouponBird’s Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. Here are his insights on the development approach and challenges of building and maintaining a high-quality e-commerce site. . What is your job at CouponBirds?

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Should Your Company Host All-Hands Meetings?

YoungUpstarts

As commonplace as meetings are in the workplace, they’re also a hot-button issue in corporate culture today. Some employees sing the praises of meetings; others feel they’re largely a waste of time. A more moderate stance is that meetings are still necessary in this day and age, but that many organizations could benefit from streamlining their approach.

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Take it Offline! 5 Local Marketing Ideas For Startups

YoungUpstarts

So, you’ve got a new startup and getting it promoted is priority #1. First of all, congrats on the launch. Second, you’re in for a rough time if you expect the Internet to carry its success. Why? Because you and everyone else has a startup. And they’re all going online to do its advertising and marketing. What if you tried local marketing ideas to change it up?

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Do startups need business insurance?

The Startup Magazine

Starting a business on a shoestring budget? Or paying in that initial directors’ loan to get your idea off the ground? For startup owners, the initial stages of business can be the most thrilling and terrifying: it’s time to crunch the numbers, go the extra mile, and make your vision fly. But while early stage entrepreneurs are brimming with enthusiasm, they’re not thinking about how to protect themselves if they’re unable to work for a while.

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Chartered Managers adding leadership value in Australia & NZ

NZ Entrepreneur

Success in business rests heavily on getting a good return on your investment. From producing products, to upgrading technological systems to marketing services, business leaders must be meticulous in ensuring they get top results in return for the money spent. But what about your investment in the people leading your company? Managers and leaders are often overlooked as the most important organisational asset that holds the most potential in determining the business’ success.

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Tips to Help Inexperienced Individuals Get Started in Business

The Startup Magazine

If you have plans to start a business but do not know where to begin, do not worry too much because you are not alone in this situation. In fact, with the latest economic situation, there is an increasing number of people that have found jobs that they thought never existed at all. Other business owners believe that they can help create jobs that go hand in hand with their goal, which is to run their company and be the boss.

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How to Manage Your Money Better in a Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There’s always room for improvement, and that certainly is relevant to any business when managing their money. Making a profit is ideal for businesses, but the bigger the profit, the better the company will benefit, of course. So how can you manage your money better in a business. Here are some top tips for helping you do just that! Master The Art of Negotiation.

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What Type Of Ad Is Best For Your Business And Why?

The Startup Magazine

Organisations spend millions of dollars on advertising campaigns; but with so many different advertisement platforms, how can marketers decide which one to spend their budget on? Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. For a lasting impact, advertisers must make use of various advertisement platforms that work cohesively to reach consumers. Here, we have outlined a variety of advertisement platforms to help businesses choose the best one: Google Ads.

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Neurodiversity: Marie O’Riordan on the sense of belonging

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Marie O’Riordan, Senior Public Relations & Communications Manager at Prepaid Financial Services. Previously, Marie worked as a high-level Consultant and CCO as well as a Media, Marketing, Public Relations, and Communications Experimentalist/Theorist, advised Fortune 500 and NYSE-listed compani

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10 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not There Will Be More Entrepreneurs in the Future

Hearpreneur

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs. Growing empowerment and embracing of individuality is motivating more people to begin their entrepreneurship journey.