Wed.Jul 03, 2019

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How Tech Startups Succeed With a Fully Remote Model

ReadWriteStart

Startups are starting to launch without a central headquarters, or any designated office building, in an attempt to create “fully remote” businesses. The premise is simple; operate with all your leaders and employees working remotely, sometimes all over the world, to cut costs and broaden your potential employee pool. To conventional businesses, the notion seems absurd; they rely on in-house collaboration and the reputational allure of a headquarters.

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How To Choose The Best Online Event Planner For Your Project

YoungUpstarts

If you are organising an event for your business, organisation or charity, you want it to go well. After all, you are going to put a lot of time, effort and, probably, money into this type of project. So, failure is not an option. Using a good online event planner is one of the best ways to make sure that your event is a success. A good-quality one will keep things organised and make it easy to market your event.

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Board Orientation Best Practices

Board Effect

Some board members attend their first board meeting knowing pretty much what to expect. Even experienced board directors benefit by having the opportunity to attend a well-prepared, well-organized board orientation session. A board orientation is even more important for inexperienced board directors. The more information they have before getting involved, the more they will be able to contribute to the organization.

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7 Tips For Entrepreneurs Seeking A Balanced Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

I know some entrepreneurs with successful businesses, and others who seem to have a great relationship with their family, but I can’t think of many who have both. Some people would argue that these two successes are mutually exclusive, but I’m not convinced. Individually, they both take focus, commitment, and a variety of skills, all the strengths of a good entrepreneur.

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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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Making Your Home-Based Business Client-Friendly

YoungUpstarts

Many startup owners choose to work from home at the beginning of their businesses. It significantly reduces overhead so that you can collect higher profits. It eliminates your commute, office rent, and more. Plus, it significantly reduces your carbon footprint. . You’re not alone in making this decision. About 38 million business owners have decided to run their business from home.

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VC Firm Creation Versus VC Firm Building

Haystack

Earlier this year, I reflected on the difference between “fund investing” vs “fund management.” It’s a useful post for emerging managers, I’d recommend reading it. The gist of that post is – making investments is relatively easy, but learning to manage a VC fund is very complex and hard to learn. Susa Ventures recently announced their 3rd seed fund.

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How a CRM Can Help You Transform Your Side Hustle Into a Business

Up and Running

So you have a new business—one that’s small but growing. Or maybe you have a side hustle that you’d like to turn into something more. You’ve considered investing in customer relationship management (CRM) software, but it doesn’t seem like it’s worth buying until you have more customer relationships to manage. For certain relationship-centered businesses, CRMs have a litany of value, even if your business is cash-strapped and just getting off the ground.

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The Right Fit: How To Fill That Vacancy

YoungUpstarts

If your small business is growing, chances are you’re going to need some new blood. Starting searching for your ideal candidate might be daunting. How do you know that you are getting the best person available? You might have concerns about investing in an individual, entrusting them with responsibility, and then it coming back on you if your new employee lets you down.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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Ask the Experts: Three Questions About Retail Cash Flow And Inventory

YoungUpstarts

by Allison Lilly of Kabbage, Inc. . The retail sector is undergoing tremendous change, with a growing volume of sales shifting to online stores. But for owners of all types of retail businesses, issues related to cash flow and inventory remain a primary concern. According to an exclusive Kabbage survey of independent retailers, more than 40 percent cite inventory as their largest expense over the course of their first decade in business.

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How To Start A Crude Oil Business

The Startup Magazine

Oil has always been a controversial topic for many. Some understand that oil is essential when it comes to fueling cars and powering homes , but there are some that just want to dwell on the negative aspects of the substance. Sure, oil can be dangerous and harmful to the environment, but time has proven that when handled in a safe manner oil can be environmentally safe.

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Smart hacks for recruiting on social media

NZ Entrepreneur

If you’re responsible for finding and hiring people to grow your team or your business, your thoughts have probably wandered towards recruiting on social media, especially when the job boards aren’t producing the right needles from the haystack. Social media is all pervasive. We use it for news, gossip, communication, relationships, recommendations, research and, yep, for cat photos and showing off too.

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Can you name the two most powerful words for business?

Berkonomics

Here’s a puzzle where the answer come first. “Help me.”. Over the years I have heard many stories from entrepreneurs, students, news reporters, even my children, all telling me that they could not get someone’s attention they wanted or needed until they used the words, “Help me.” The simple request is disarming, enlarging the object of the request to a status of importance in respect to the questioner that is difficult to ignore.

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Benefits Of Using ePOS Systems For Start-Ups

YoungUpstarts

If you are managing a start-up company, you may have noticed that running it on a daily basis is not so easy. There are so many things you need to do and it is normal for you or for one of your employees to make some mistakes. This is, after all, a new business and you’re all trying to be more organized and efficient. However, some errors could be eliminated and make the system work better.

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Email Testing: Going Beyond Open Rate and Click Rate

ConversionXL

Email is one of the few marketing channels that spans the full funnel. You use email to raise awareness pre-conversion. To stay connected with content subscribers. To nurture leads to customers. To encourage repeat purchases or combat churn. To upsell existing customers. Getting the right email to the right person at the right time throughout the funnel is a massive undertaking that requires a lot of optimization and testing.

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Don’t Get Sued By Employees – Avoid These 3 Careless Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Employees frequently bring lawsuits against current and former employers to settle labor law violations. Being involved in a lawsuit is time consuming, expensive, and can ruin your personal and business reputation. If you haven’t retained a corporate lawyer yet, now is a good time. Ignorance of labor law is never a good defense. The court won’t let you slide if you didn’t know you were breaking the law.

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Improve Your Business Presence With Bulk SMS Marketing

The Startup Magazine

There is simply no denying that today’s market is a fiercely competitive one. Who doesn’t want to be at the top? It seems like this is the only way that you can get any recognition today. When you throw in the fact that marketing isn’t what it used to be, you are truly looking at a troubling situation. More and more marketers are leveraging digital marketing technology today to reach their consumers instantly.

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