YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

by Michelle Seiler Tucker , author of “ EXIT RICH: The 6 P Method to Sell Your Business for Huge Profit “ Successfully starting and growing a business can be a tough challenge for even the most adept entrepreneurs. Exiting a business for maximum profit, however, can prove even more difficult. Approximately 46% to 80% of middle-market sell-side transactions fail to close and, according to Forbes, 8 out of 10 businesses do not sell at all.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Geoff Scott, CEO of ASUG, interviewed Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, on a wide.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

by Samuel Worsley and Nathan Moore, co-founders of Live Tech Games. The pandemic and lockdown this year have had a visual effect on the business world globally. Many people found themselves with time on their hands, starting to think about that business idea they’ve always harboured. The figures speak for themselves: in the UK a staggering 273 tech startups were filed in September alone and there has been a 181% month on month rise of startups – the highest number since 2011!

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

During the Covid crisis, I’ve been regularly discussing the dramatic amplification of inequities that already existed. From a business perspective, some businesses have benefited during this crisis, while other businesses (and entire categories of business) are being wiped off the face of the earth. Here’s a blunt statement of what’s going on that showed up in a Slack channel yesterday.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

by Victoria Heyward, Brand Marketing and Communications Manager at Bright. Hands up who’s read their company brand guidelines? Take an extra ten points for Griffindor if you can remember where they’re stored. Historically, brand guidelines have been the doc that we know we should refer to under times of great decision-making, but for some reason, never do.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

eCommerce has really hit its stride. In Q2 2020, more than $1 in every $5 was spent online, and experts predict that retail eCommerce sales will reach $4.1 trillion by the end of the year. With that much money on the table, this might be the right time to consider joining the eCommerce bandwagon. Luckily for you, opening an online store is easier than you may think.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Before you can put a price on something, you should have a good understanding of what a reasonable buyer might be willing to purchase it for. This might seem like the kind of platitude you might come across during the first week of an Economics 101 class, but when it comes to selling companies this rule is frequently — and more often than not— ignored by small business owners who only have the vaguest understanding of business valuation and the real market value of their enterprise.

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Our Own Start-up

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Between the kids playing and fighting and the dogs barking, working from home is not always the best option. The post Office Options: 4 Alternatives to working from home first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

ZenBusiness, an online platform to help small businesses incorporate and stay compliant with regulators, announced Thursday that it has raised $55 million in additional funding. To date, the Austin-based company, founded in 2017, has raised $74.5 million. Cathay Innovation led the Series B round with participation from Great Point Ventures, Breyer Capital, and Omega Venture […].

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The restaurant business can become monotonous after a while. As a restaurateur, you want to shine on your own and set yourself apart from the crowd. So, here are a few ways to make your restaurant stand out. Cultivate a Unique Atmosphere. Aside from your delicious food, customers will most likely remember the atmosphere of your establishment. Was it loud or quiet, bright or dim, cheery or gloomy, casual or formal?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Localization services are needed more than ever before to help businesses reach and retain new foreign audiences. Content marketing — communicating with your marketing using interesting articles, visuals, and videos — has been well established as a primary method of capturing and keeping attention. But in a new market , a prerequisite for success is that you speak the language of your audience and get on their cultural wavelength. .

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What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With this piece, we take a look at the Drone market in India.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Email marketing is a powerful tool in the arsenal of an eCommerce website owner. However, over the years the general public has learned to increasingly ignore generic mass emails. The answer to this is email personalization, and surprisingly 70% of brands don’t use it properly. Today it’s easier than ever before to personalize emails. There are countless tools and extensions to help you optimize your eCommerce emails , send them en masse and merge with data directly from a spreadsheet.

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