Mon.Jul 08, 2019

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Toronto’s John Fielding Lends Guidance on Mentorship, Strategic Leadership

Hearpreneur

For Toronto executive John Fielding, the road to entrepreneurial success began with a small dream and a lot of determination. In 1981, he decided to trade in his professional hockey career for the opportunity to pursue a path in business, a move which would eventually pay off. Today, John Fielding is the founder of Array Marketing, formerly known as IDMD, a global retail merchandising service with clients that include Ulta, Chanel, Estee Lauder, Sephora, and more.

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10 Challenging Insights From New Venture Innovators

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people agree that entrepreneurs have to think differently and take risks to have much chance of building a successful business. Yet I have found that serious entrepreneurs usually go way beyond these platitudes in their actions and thinking, and often won’t volunteer their real views, for fear of alienating “regular” people, and being branded a fanatic.

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3 Digital Marketing Trends For 2019

YoungUpstarts

One of the most unpredictable things about marketing in 2019 is trends. Irony-stuck? Be with me here. A tactic that used to work a month ago may become totally void by the end of today. And it won’t even be a surprise. Be it Google’s search algorithms or Facebook’s codes that weed out clickbaits from the feed, the airs are always changing. The best any marketer can do in such conditions is adapt to these changes and trends and modify their marketing strategies accordingly for the best results.

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Mistakes University Students and Graduates Make in Their Jobs

ReadWriteStart

Finding the first job after the graduation is the most time consuming and stressful task. Despite of knowledge and skills, it becomes difficult to climb up the ladder of the career. Choosing the right career is important as it will impact you the whole life. There are many considerations in choosing up the right path based on our skills, capabilities, knowledge, abilities.

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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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How Introverted Entrepreneurs Can Build A Strong Personal Brand

YoungUpstarts

by Manish Dudharejia, President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc. Introverts have an abundance of skills they can bring to any business table, but standing out in a crowd is something most would rather avoid. That makes developing a strong, recognizable personal brand somewhat difficult, especially in the beginning stages of entrepreneurship. However, it’s not impossible.

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Fund81 Podcast Interview on Mental Health in Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of Elizabeth Kraus, Sue Heilbronner, and the work they do through MergeLane. Recently Elizabeth started a platform for the next generation of venture capitalists called Fund81. It includes a podcast , which has both a public section for everyone and a private section for the Fund81 members. Elizabeth recently interviewed me for Episode 13 where we talked about maintaining mental health in the fast-paced venture capital world while supporting portfolio companies, colleagues,

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. I remember one enterprising journalist judging VCs on the basis of how much their handicaps had gone down. Low handicaps weren’t good! During this time, cash was scarce and VCs were firmly in control.

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Customer Tracking Made Easy With The Intelligent Crowd Counting AI Models

YoungUpstarts

by Naveen Gattu , COO and co-founder of Gramener. Retail stores, libraries, museums, banks, and stadiums consume significant customer traffic every day. The business users are not concerned only about tracking their customers. Their safety is also an utmost priority. However, it is being proactively dealt with by placing cameras. Yes, a camera saves the day.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Seasoned Tradeline

The Startup Magazine

A strong credit score helps you secure a loan and maintain financial security over a long period of time. You can build a good credit score by making repayments on time, paying off negative accounts, and or getting a seasoned tradeline. A seasoned tradeline is a credit account that has maintained a good standing for a period of two or more years. Below is more information about what seasoned tradelines are and how they can help you or your startup business: 1) What Are Seasoned Tradelines?

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Here’s Why Entrepreneurs Dread The Sales Follow-Up

YFS Magazine

Following up is a significant part of the sales process. It doesn’t have to be complicated. You can be persistent without being annoying.

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Why Hiring a Staffing Agency is the Best Way to Staff Your Company in Houston

The Startup Magazine

Houston, with its population of over 2 million, is a large city and if you are an employer in Houston, you would want to be able to reach as much of the population as you could and go beyond too in order to find the ideal candidate for the job that you have on offer. Staffing an organisation has its challenges and startups especially need to be astute when it comes to job recruitment.

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Millennials Are Using Everyday Skills to Benefit Businesses And The Workforce At Large

YFS Magazine

A growing number of millennials are discovering ways to make use of everyday skills through entrepreneurship and within the workforce at large.

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Monday Motivation: ROCK BOTTOM – Powerful Motivational Speech

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Success is measured on the dark, stormy, cloudy days. Sometimes it takes the most uncomfortable times to lead to the best times. Failure makes you stronger. Get back up and rise again, this time more smarter no matter the loss. Better things are coming for your life.

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The 18 Most Iconic and Influential Logos Of All Time: Decade by Decade (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

Logo design has come a long way since the start of the 20th century. It’s grown as an art and as a business science. Logo design has also grown more challenging as the marketplace expands and communication has amplified globally. Once upon a time, it didn’t matter if a local small business accidentally shared a logo with another business 100 miles away.

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What Does Innovation in Higher Education Mean for Boards?

Board Effect

Progress in any industry is an exciting thing. By virtue of our human nature, many of us are creatures of habit. That’s why we often see resistance to change even when it’s looming and necessary. The advancement of technology is laying a heavy imprint on every industry. How quickly technology helps an industry progress often depends on how receptive an industry or a business is to doing things differently than they’ve ever been done before.

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Ripples of Hope: brainstorming dinner

Jeff Hilimire

Terence Lester talking about Love Beyond Walls to the Ripples of Hope gang. On June 19th I put on the first Ripples of Hope event. Ripples, which I launched on June 6th , exists to connect leaders who have great experience and who want to use their superpowers to do good in the world, with leaders who are building companies that make the world a better place.

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The Team Works

Women Entrepreneurs Can

How do you know you’re a great business woman? It’s not just about profit margins and entrepreneurship but because you recognize your greatest business asset: your team. You know the importance of building good relationships and creating a productive working environment and that’s what will take your business forward on to bigger and better things. In this blog , we’re taking a look at how to grow your team alongside your business.

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Many Many Moments of Lift

Reid Hoffman

Photo credit: Prashant Panjiar / Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More than 122 million lives saved. Hundreds of millions people lifted out of extreme poverty. Over the course of its existence, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has helped drive massive positive outcomes like that by focusing on what it calls “actionable measurement” – aka a commitment to collecting and analyzing data about its activities and interventions, and then using this information to adapt and refine its efforts

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First Steps to Preparing Your Child to Run the Family Business

Up and Running

The wonderful thing about family businesses is that they are family businesses. There is no one loved more than your children. You love them, you nurture them, and you educate them all hoping that they will grow up to be self-sufficient, confident, and happy adults. Those of us who lead our own companies can’t help but dream about the possibility of bringing our kids into our businesses.

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Social Media and Thought Leadership for Founders

This is going to be BIG.

Running a startup consumes a ton of time. Just the immediate priorities seem to take up more than one person’s potential working hours—so it’s no surprise that when it comes to something like social media, many founders have trouble making it a priority. The consequences of failing to position a founder’s profile aren’t always obvious—and it’s usually all about missed opportunities.

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old. I killed it, everyone did. So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ‘n’ mix.