Thu.Jul 25, 2019

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Why Startups Must Liberate From Hiring Platforms

YoungUpstarts

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Macro and micro influences which others survive can often be fatal to that of the startup. Why? Because startups are fragile and fledgling. They are trying to find their place in the world and carve out a niche – all the while making every dollar go further.

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How to Collect Customer Feedback for Your Startup 

The Startup Magazine

What do your customers really think of your products or services? It can be tricky to figure this out, especially if your business is a startup with limited resources. Perhaps you have an inkling that something’s not right – you’re seeing a lot of customer churn, for instance – but the handful of emails you’ve received from customers are positive. You need to gather customer feedback to truly understand your startup and its prospects.

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Vendors and Analysts: Influence v. Intelligence

deal architect

Readers know my favorite vendor event is a summit - a day or two long analyst-centric event. Not that I mind going to user focused events but feel like I intrude on customer time there. In the last year, I.

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How Education Can Take A Lesson From Coworking

YoungUpstarts

by Peter Yu, General Manager (Singapore) of Campfire Collaborative Spaces. The myth that having the best education guarantees a clear route to career success is an ideal that has been disproven by stories of outliers finding success. Success, that upon first glance looks disproportionate to the level of formal education they might have received. Seeing the emergence of the startup that succeeds through the combination of the right technological expertise, advantage, and out-of-the-box thinking h

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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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Startup Risks – Legal, Insurance and Technology Protections

The Startup Magazine

The sheer quantity of data that is processed by any company on a daily basis, especially startups and businesses whose core market is digital, makes them a target for hackers and thieves. In order to keep the running of your business going smoothly, your responsibility as a business owner is to minimize business risks and improve the security of your company. .

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Marketing And Growth Hacks For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Have you launched a startup and looking for growth hacks to be a success? You have come to the right place. We discuss the following 8 strategies to help you become a successful entrepreneur. 1. Grow Your Email List. As a new business, you will have to build up your contact list from scratch by making sure that more and more people sign up to your newsletters.

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Growing A Company Quickly: What Not To Forgo

YoungUpstarts

In most cases, success in business leads to expansion. And with expansion, more often than not, comes growing pain. But if you properly anticipate the problems that come with rapid growth, then there’s no reason that you can’t mitigate them. Loss of Identity. There’s no getting around the fact that a business that’s twice the size it used to be will feel different.

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Startup Travel Tips: Should You Be Using Your Personal Vehicle for Business Trips?

The Startup Magazine

Around 35% of business travelers in the US prefer to use their own car for transportation, according to a study conducted by Rockport Analytics. If you travel a lot for your startup, that’s an option to look at beyond securing and using a company vehicle. But before you jump and use your personal vehicle for business travel, there are several considerations to keep in mind that my affect your decision.

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Do It In Real Time: Practicing Your Startup Pitch

Hunter Walker

“And this slide is where I’ll talk about Go To Market, and… ” “STOP” I say. “We’re going to do this in real time.” Photo by Veri Ivanova on Unsplash. When pitch practicing there’s value in taking it s.l.o.w. and going through it all in the same style you’re going to use when talking with new investors.

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Top Ways To Fund Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Do you need to fund your startup and get some money together to take those initial large steps? These tips are here to help you do so. Bank Overdraft. A bank overdraft can provide a quick, flexible cashflow for companies that have a fluctuating income. It is quite a simple idea: in the leaner months, you dip into the overdraft and come back out once business has picked up.

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Austin’s TurnKey Vacation Rentals Raises $46 Million in Additional Funding

SiliconHills

TurnKey Vacation Rentals, one of the nation’s largest vacation rental management companies, recently announced it has secured $48 million in funding. The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds “to fuel market expansion and the development of new vacation rental offerings and technologies for individual owners and small property managers,” according to a news release. […].

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4 Times You Need to Hire a Startup Attorney

The Startup Magazine

Are you getting ready to launch your new business? It helps to be prepared. Make sure you click here to learn 5 times you need to hire a startup attorney. About 550,000 people start their venture as an entrepreneur every month. Each one of these people begins with a dream of making their idea a success. However, many of these people will make a huge mistake.

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3 Smart Ways To Organize Your Office And Boost Efficiency

YFS Magazine

A tidy desk may or may not suggest a tidy mind, but a tidy office is usually a sign of an efficient company.

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The Storm-Chasing Geologist Whos Fixing SalesTec

Hearpreneur

Matt Sniff graduated college as a professional geologist and storm chaser with a talent for building popular, top-10 weather apps. But his interests turned when he returned home from Silicon Valley in 2015, and saw his field sales manager father wasting hours making sense of the data between a hundred Excel sheets. He built a simple, mobile app, “ Map My Customers ,” that helped client-facing sales reps visualize data to optimize face time.

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Cultivating Inclusion: Brian Reaves on building a future workforce for all

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Brian Reaves, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Dell Technologies , responsible for Dell Technologies’ global diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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Busting 6 Important Myths about Employee Engagement

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Every company is giving great importance to employee engagement in their organization. But there are a lot of myths around this subject. Apart from employing effective recruitment strategies , you must also keep an eye out for the following myths that could affect your company. The Top 6 Employee Engagement Myths. 1. Conducting Employee Engagement SurveyWill Create Engagement.

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5 Ways To Not Let Finances Affect Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Businesses revolve around their finances, and many good businesses go to the wall simply because their owners are better at the other aspects of running a business than they are at managing cashflow. If the finances get neglected, at some point your cashflow is going to dry up, or you’ll have a dry spell with no contingency, or you won’t be able to pay for unexpected increases in costs.

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In 2019, Even The Most Humble Businesses Can Be Worthwhile

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It’s incredibly easy to think that we’re not good enough. There can be many unjustified reasons for this. Of course, simply wishing something with the right intent will not make everything happen for you. You can’t sit on your laurels and simply hope to run a fantastic small business. But it is important to know that sometimes, you don’t need the best of everything to make something worthwhile.

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Can your team overcome messy problems?

Berkonomics

Some problems seem impossible to surmount. Leaders and teams can be overwhelmed. We’ve all probably experienced this. Several big problems hit us at once. Or the system goes down, stranding everyone. Or worse yet, “We’ve been hacked.” Add the twist of ransomware? The inevitability of a big problem. As we grow our businesses, we inevitably run into problems that seem for a time impossible to overcome.

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7 Tasks You Probably Didn’t Know You Could Outsource

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Nowadays you can pretty much outsource any task. Most companies outsource the likes of accounting and recruitment, but there are so many other tasks that can be beneficial to outsource. Here are seven business tasks that may not have realised you could outsource. Answering the Phone . It can be frustrating having interrupt tasks to answer the phone.

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FOMO in Washington DC: Mnuchin, Trump and Tomorrow’s Libra Hearing

thebarefootvc

The last time I wrote was on the eve of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra announcement. At this time tomorrow, the US Congress will have held its first hearing on the matter. It’s been quite an active few weeks – Bitcoin reached highs over $13K at one point before retreating back to the $10K mark (still nearly 3x higher than its lows earlier this year).

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8 Recipes to Success from Famous Chefs

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There’s no one right path to success. Often, the road is windy and confusing. However, by looking at leaders or experts who have learned and made mistakes along the way, you can learn a thing or two for your own journey. Famous chefs are no different. From Anthony Bourdain to Julia Child, it’s clear that a success recipe doesn’t have to include actual food ingredients, rather it can be a collection of factors that lead to an outcome.

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