Mon.Jun 01, 2020

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Many myths surround the subject of startup funding. Here is Startup Funding, a Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs. Pre-Requisites of Funding. Gone are the days where you can get funded based on an idea. To secure your funding, you must establish the feasibility of your idea through proper planning and implementation.

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New Normal: Conversation with Doug Belden of Hillsborough County, FL

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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How to Create an Unbeatable Business Strategy

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Every journey needs a map. A well-drawn map sets you on the right path and helps you get to your destination as quickly and efficiently as possible. And it is just as relevant to business as it is to the great outdoors. Whatever goals and objectives your business may be working to – growth, new product development, digital transformation – you will need a roadmap to make sure you don’t get lost on the way.

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Effective Ways To Hang On To Your High-Potential Employees

YoungUpstarts

If you thought that the war for talent is slowing down, you’re wrong. Even in industries experiencing modest growth, the war for top-notch talent is showing no signs of letting up. You see, high-potential employees are a crucial part of an organization. They are the innovators and future leaders that organizations need to thrive in a competitive environment.

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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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You are Not Alone

Feld Thoughts

On Wednesday 6/3 at 11am Energize Colorado will be launching our Mental Wellness initiative. While we already have a Mental Health Resource section up on the Energize Colorado , we are starting a weekly webinar series called Wellness Wednesdays. One of our goals with this initiative is to destigmatize mental health and support those in need of engaging in service during the Covid crisis.

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Top 3 Ways Your Company Can Attract Employees

YoungUpstarts

If you’re looking to grow your business and attract top talent, you may be looking for some hiring ideas. After all, growth is a sign of a healthy business, and investing in high-quality, capable employees is one of the best investments you can make for your company’s long-term success. While the process of hiring and retaining top candidates may seem daunting at first, it certainly doesn’t have to be – in fact, there are several strategies that can help you build the best team possible.

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Tips for starting a nonprofit

The Startup Magazine

Starting a nonprofit corporation may involve many more steps and costs than starting a for-profit business, but if you are determined to serve your community, it will be most fulfilling. TRUiC is a useful information company that gives you all the free tools to start a business and succeed. Among all kinds of business help offered online, they include a business idea generator, business name generator, LLC formations, and corporate business creation, including starting a nonprofit.

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7 Tips For Expediting The Scaling Of Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The military has long recognized that machine guns are force multipliers for rifles, but businesses have been slow to capitalize on this concept. Sometimes all the planning in the world isn’t enough for business survival, when things change as fast as they do today. Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market.

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The Power of Big Hairy Audacious Goals

The Startup Magazine

You might have heard of the SMART framework for goal setting, where you define goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timebound. It’s a system that served us well for many years, especially while we were growing our start up. Each year my business partner and I would set specific goals that we thought were realistic to hit by the end of the year and that represented strong year over year growth.

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Monday Motivation: 10 Minutes To Start Your Day Best! | REWIRE YOUR MIN

Hearpreneur

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: If you dream big, you better work even harder. Comfort is the enemy of progression. Get outside of yourself. Be prepared in life for a lot of rejections so you don’t get disappointed. Life is one big gratitude test, be grateful first then you become happy.

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Two 14 year olds are giving Mumbai the taste of all state delicacies in a box

Our Own Start-up

Two students Jiya Rathi and Anya Kotecha from The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai say that unique subscription box of snacks will help reconnect with the distinctive tastes and different cultures of various states of India.

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The Business of Custom Vending Machines –– Reimagined

YFS Magazine

The vending machine industry is experiencing something of a modernized second wind.

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Basic legal compliance that prospective proprietors and entrepreneurs should know before starting a startup

Our Own Start-up

To create an awareness about it, we have come up with some of the legal compliances and regulations so that you can turn your adept ideas into business as startups.

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How to Really Impress Corporate Clients

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When dealing with corporate clients who are important to the sustained success of your business, it’s important to really impress them and deal with them in the right way. You don’t want to run the risk of having your key clients stolen away from your business because that’s the last thing you need in this kind of situation. Find out more about how you can impress your corporate clients more effectively below.

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Sorkin and Smith (two very prominent Cornellians)

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This morning I read “Dealbook” like I do every morning. Andrew Ross Sorkin at the NYT created Dealbook many years ago. He happens to be a Cornell alum (irrelevant to this post but nice to point out), and still is one of the primary writers of Dealbook. Terrible racist acts have stunned most of us over the last few weeks. Andrew reprinted a memo in Dealbook today that Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, wrote to his firm’s employees over the weekend.

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4 Advantages Of A Virtual Data Room For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

These days you can hardly find any business that uses a physical data room. It is because technology is appreciated by entrepreneurs in various sectors. They aim to keep up with the highly competitive business environment. And to achieve that, they prefer to employ Virtual Data Rooms (VDR) that can help their companies with securing confidential data and limited access to online files.

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Enough

VC Adventure

I’m not entirely sure where to begin, so let me start with stating what should be obvious: Black Lives Matter. That we can’t seem to agree on this in America is 2020 makes me some kind of mixture of sad, angry, screaming, crying, depressed. But how I feel and what I think isn’t important. In fact as a white person, especially a white man, my “feelings” are and should be beside the point.

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3 Ways To Benchmark For Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

by Janielle Denier , CEO and founder of Rainfactory Inc. Early stage startups have plenty of challenges, but benchmarking helps pinpoint product-market fit and provide directional data. With such valuable information in hand, upstarts can rapidly and confidently pivot to snag market share. If you’re new to the notion of benchmarking, it involves comparing your company’s metrics to those of your competitors and your industry.

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Moving Fast, Breaking Things, and the Support of Disruption

This is going to be BIG.

I wrote this in my newsletter this morning: If you're not willing to ask yourself difficult questions, to be asked them, or to ask them of your teams, then this e-mail and, frankly, this "innovation" industry isn't for you. What have tech leaders been telling people they needed to do in order to be great founders and to build great things? Move fast and break things.

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How To (Finally) Set Business Goals That You Achieve

YoungUpstarts

by Corey Fradin, Founder of QuickBooost. Running a business is a lot of things. Sometimes, it’s insanely fun. Other times, it’s a slog. But, you already know that. You know all about the ups and downs of operating a business. You can picture the feeling of joy you get when you finally: Make that sale. Hit that certain amount of email subscribers.

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