Wed.Apr 22, 2020

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10 Reasons You Don’t Qualify for an SBA Disaster Loan

Up and Running

Maintaining your business through the coronavirus crisis has likely led you to cut costs, revise your sales projections, and potentially seek out a loan to help you stay afloat. Luckily, the SBA has created a separate COVID-19 Disaster Loan, with less stringent eligibility criteria and a streamlined application process to hopefully make more funds available for more businesses. .

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Out of the Crisis

Startup Lessons Learned

Over the past few weeks, I have recorded a series of conversations with people leading the way out of this mess. They range from prominent CEOs and investors to scientists and builders. Many of them I have had the privilege of working directly with on relief efforts, and their example is what has kept me going in dark times - and inspired me to take action.

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Using iCloud for Business: This is What You Need to Know

The Startup Magazine

There are certain things you should know about using iCloud for business purposes. Did you know that the United States has over 30.2 million small businesses ? Without proper innovation, you could drown and go bankrupt with such a tight competition. If you’re a business looking to expand, using iCloud can be a worthwhile investment. It allows you to have a paperless storage system for your files.

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10 Keys To Being A Thought Leader Across Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Too many entrepreneur “wannabes” never get past the idea stage, or strike out randomly in many directions, hoping that their passion will convince people to follow them and make their business grow.

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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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Clean slate business planning

NZ Entrepreneur

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented more challenges than we would like to mention. But it has also provided business owners with a unique opportunity that they wouldn’t have had otherwise – reimagine their business with a clean slate. Stepping away from the day-to-day running of a business may seem impossible when business is running as usual, but with this enforced lockdown it is giving owners and managers the chance to not only reflect on their own performance, but look at key areas for

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Keeping Employees Healthier Through Remote Work

YoungUpstarts

by Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex. Flu season is challenging for almost everyone. Because influenza is so contagious, it’s often not a question of whether someone will get it, but how well they will hold up in response to it. Flu shots and regular hand-washing can greatly lessen the chances of a serious infection, as can simply staying home during periods of peak contagion.

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Austin Cleaning Products Startups See Huge Surge in Sales From the COVID-19 Pandemic

SiliconHills

It’s a good time to be in the disinfectant and cleaning products business. Curtis Eggemeyer, CEO of Lemi Shine, has seen demand for Lemi Shine, multi-surface antibacterial cleaner, disinfectant wipes, liquid dish soap and laundry detergent, skyrocket in sales since March. “This isn’t something you can plan for,” Eggemeyer said. “Our demand is off the […].

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How To Start A Business The Right Way

The Startup Magazine

Launching a new business is always going to be a precarious experience. If you make one wrong move, then it can end up sinking your business and putting an abrupt end to your dreams as an entrepreneur. However, if you start your business in the right way, then you stand every chance of success – the more carefully you plan things out beforehand, the less room there will be for unexpected hurdles to trip you up.

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Shift Your Marketing for the ‘New’ Normal

Duct Tape Marketing

Shift Your Marketing for the ‘New’ Normal written by Jenna Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark Sanborn. On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Mark Sanborn , who is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life.

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Giving Tuesday’s Emergency Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Board Effect

Giving Tuesday has been celebrated on the fifth day after Thanksgiving since 2011. It started as a response to consumerism and commercialization around the holiday shopping blitz. Since then, it’s become an international movement of charitable giving for nonprofits. Social services and medical services are in crisis. They’re tapped to the max. These last few months have been trying times for the whole world.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made-up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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10 lessons from Syte on building an inside sales machine to survive the crisis [guest post]

VC Cafe

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. Working from home, banning travel, and limiting the movement of people. Social distancing measures are in place for an indefinite period, and sales teams have to quickly adapt to reach customers and prospects solely through virtual meetings and channels.

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