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5 Essential Tips For Entrepreneurs Opening A Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Eddie Navarrette, founder of FE Design & Consulting. Opening a business can be an intimidating endeavor. From creating a viable concept to implementing cost-effective processes to ensure continual progress, building a business takes time, strategy and the right kind of advice. Check out my five helpful tips for budding entrepreneurs looking to open their own business: 1.

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Haste makes waste; but to lag is to sag.

Berkonomics

Close. Let’s examine the relationship between time, quality and competitiveness. If you are getting the impression from these many insights that complex relationships cause simple problems, you are right. We have heard the “haste makes waste” ditty since childhood. There is little need to reinforce the obvious. On a larger scale, there are epoch stories of giant companies eating massive losses in a recall of product, often based upon limited testing before release.

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Top 3 Apps To Use When Opening An Electrician Business

YoungUpstarts

Being an electrician today is far easier compared to if you were a decade ago. But why? Well, it’s because technology is advancing at a very rapid pace. And with it, apps surfaced into mainstream culture, making electricians more productive in doing their job. If you are an electrician and you want to run a business surrounding your trade, then it’s best if you take advantage of these apps for electricians.

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It’s Time to Change the Way We Interview and Build Teams

Austin Startup

Together, we will see our workplaces develop new strategies to improve diversity the right way. Let’s face it: Interviews are nerve-wracking situations. The thought of being picked apart for your dream job by a simple sheet of paper, and the best explanation of your entire career in an hour-long meeting, can make even the most experienced professionals have sweaty palms.

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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 Ways to Make Your Online Store Stand Out

The Startup Magazine

Ever wonder why established businesses like McDonald’s or Coca-cola spend millions on brand building? Building a solid and easily recognizable brand gives you a HUGE advantage over the competition because products have limited life cycles but brands can be remembered forever. For online stores, the same brand building emphasis is critical. Carefully building your brand identity from the start is as important to your online store as picking the right e-commerce platform to build from.

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How I Renovated My East Austin Home In 20 Days

Austin Startup

My new living room! *Click here to see before & after pictures* My Background I moved to Austin right after college in 2012. I fit the stereotype of a typical Millennial. I wanted to live a certain lifestyle and working for a company with limited options seemed suffocating. I had a lot of big ideas and no clue how to implement any of them. Despite not having a stable salaried job, I was determined to buy a house in Austin.

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Female Founders: Two Women Disrupt Shower Head Industry

The Startup Magazine

Two girls with a love for beauty and wellness are helping consumers rethink their daily shower by sharing information on shower water quality, and raising awareness on the importance of water conservation. Vitaclean HQ is a lifestyle product with a sustainability twist. A Vitaclean is a shower head with three levels of filtration for instant soft hair and skin.

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6 Tips To Help Fulfilment Departments Keep Up With Company Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Melissa Fox, Director of Shipping and Receiving for Readers.com. As ecommerce becomes a larger percentage of retail business it is imperative that ecommerce companies are able to keep up with the growth of the industry. While many departments are relatively easy to scale, a company’s fulfilment department is not always as easy. Substantial growth may require an entirely new warehouse layout and additional staff.

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A 10-Step Process to De-Risk Your Redesign Projects

ConversionXL

What we know today as a “website redesign” isn’t what it used to be. ‘Radical’ website redesign – where the company embarks on a ‘big-bang’ website overhaul – is becoming less common these days – which is generally a good thing, and there are a number of reasons why. Pretty much every UX/CRO expert and company will advise you to tread lightly when it comes to radical redesigns.

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3 Strategies To Increase The Value Of Your Financial Legacy

YoungUpstarts

by Rich M. Groff II of www.TheMoneyMD.com , a third generation Certified Financial Planner and entrepreneur. After a lifetime of accumulating money, it’s common to start thinking about your legacy and what you want to leave to your children, grandchildren or a favorite charitable cause. But despite the dollar signs you see on your investment and bank accounts, there’s no guarantee your loved ones or your chosen charity will get the full amount.

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How To Create An Innovation Initiative For Your Business

YFS Magazine

The right innovation portfolio can ensure you protect and expand existing business while also maximizing the likelihood of success years into the future.

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What Are The Limits of Tolerance?

Feld Thoughts

I’ve had an emotionally challenging morning so far. I woke up too early and was deeply agitated. I tried to get rolling, couldn’t, and went back to bed. But I wasn’t able to fall asleep and my brain kept cycling on all the political chaos and societal hatred that is going on. I’ve tried to compartmentalize it but it broke through again the last couple of days after Charlottesville.

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The Basics of Event Planning

The Startup Magazine

Depending on the size of the event you’re planning, you may be panicking when you stand back and look the big picture. When approaching an event of any size it’s a good idea to approach the very basics of event planning to ensure that the underlying structure is sound. You don’t want it to begin and you find out you’ve forgot to hire toilets or you’ve underestimated the number of guests attending.

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Is Your Start Up Idea Gold or Goop?

Austin Startup

Is your business idea an undiscovered gem, or a flaming dumpster fire leading you to your doom? Here’s a quick rule to help. A lot of entrepreneurs ask me to look at their business ideas since they know what I do for a living. Some are gold, some are meh, most are flaming dumpster fires. It stinks to tell people when their ideas are smoldering rubbish, so most VCs don’t and just politely decline or ignore bad business pitches.

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Fresh from the SPRING: goodfather

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to create logo as fresh as a cool splash of water on a hot summer day. Let us start the slow clap for goodfather. Check out more great work on goodfather’s profile page.

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The Engineer’s Dilemma

Austin Startup

Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash One of my earliest memories in life, around 2 or 3 years old, is about putting together a Lego set, a big pirate ship, lined with cannons on the sides and decked in pirate flags. I haven’t stop building things since then. I wholeheartedly believe that I didn’t choose to be an engineer, “it” chose me. I can’t even tell if it was nurture or nature since my mother, my step-father, my step-brother and his wife, are also engineers.

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Fresh from the SPRING: goodfather

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to create logo as fresh as a cool splash of water on a hot summer day. Let us start the slow clap for goodfather. Check out more great work on goodfather’s profile page.

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Why Leaders Eat Last with Simon Sinek

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Leaders Eat Last with Simon Sinek written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Simon Sinek. Podcast Transcript. For this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, we’ll revisit my conversation with Simon Sinek , author of Start With Why and the most recent Leaders Eat Last. First off, if you’ve not read either of these books, I suggest you get both.

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Transcript of How to Create Ridiculously Good Content

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Create Ridiculously Good Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Sanebox. Get some sanity back in your inbox, take control of your inbox. Get all that stuff outta there that is dragging you down.

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How To Write Content That Boosts Your Bottom Line

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Write Content That Boosts Your Bottom Line written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. What is the greatest marketing challenge in the digital age? For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, it lies in creating content profitably and sustainably over the long haul. When virtually all of your customers are spending their waking hours reading, searching for, and sharing content online, it makes total sense for you to write and publish content online.