Tue.Aug 11, 2020

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How The Covid-19 Pandemic Boosted Adoption Of Emerging Technologies In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

by Shaun Djie, Co-Founder & COO of Digix. The coronavirus pandemic has been a time of uncertainty and panic, but also a period of opportunity and evolution. Southeast Asia is at an intersection of change where many traditional industries are forced to adapt to the new normal, beckoning a new digital industrial revolution. Amidst the outbreak, governments across the region, such as Singapore have been promoting the use of digital finance as a means to minimise physical contact and stamp the s

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How women entrepreneurs in India are challenging social and cultural norms

The Next Web

In India, the proportion of women in paid work is among the lowest in the world, at just over 23% – a figure which contrasts sharply with the corresponding rate of over 78% for men. Opportunities for women to enter employment in the country are limited by a range of factors. These include a dominant tradition of female domestic responsibility and prevailing social patriarchy.

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How To Make Extra Cash To Fund Your Startup Business

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business from scratch isn’t always easy, especially if you have to fund it yourself. You might consider borrowing money from your friends or the bank. However, before you do that, you should try saving up some yourself. In this article, we’ll discuss how you can make some extra cash to fund your startup business. Sound interesting?

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4 Ways to Protect Your Business Against a Ransomware Attack

The Startup Magazine

Ransomware is a multi-million-dollar crime operation that poses a great threat to a lot of online businesses. Ransomware has been so beneficial for hackers, that they have completely given up on other methods and shifted their entire focus toward conning businesses and people by stealing their credit card information and bank account credentials. As ransomware has become so much popular, businesses need to do so much more to protect themselves against this very real threat.

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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 To Build A Great Business Plan – Checklist 2020

YoungUpstarts

by Nemanja Zunic, founder and CEO of IdeaBuddy. “A goal without a plan is just a wish!” . Every successful business idea had a strategically written business plan. To provide direction of business development or just to attract investors, a business plan is a roadmap toward a company’s success. . But where to start with writing a great business plan?

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Masks, Distancing, Thinking, and Diversity

Feld Thoughts

I got a lot of interesting and helpful feedback from yesterday’s post on The Sameness. To everyone who emailed me or commented, thank you. It felt good to write it out, and was extremely helpful to me to ponder the responses and suggestions. I continue to be baffled by the US response to masks. Every time I write something about it, I get responses about why masks don’t work, how to talk about them differently, political comments, and some cheering.

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LitLingo Raises $2 Million for its AI-Powered Platform to Help Businesses Communicate Better

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News With remote work becoming routine, more conversations are moving to informal communications channels like Facebook messenger, Slack, and direct messages. “All of these platforms are just going bonkers,” said Kevin Brinig, CEO and Co-Founder of LitLingo. “Things that have traditionally been nonchalant communications have all moved to […].

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4 Proven Ways To Learn More About Your Audience

YoungUpstarts

What’s the key to running a business in any field or industry? Is it the quality of the product, level of service, or efficient distribution channels? Sure, those things are all important, but above all of else, there’s one thing that reigns supreme – knowing your audience. Whether you’re trying to incorporate social media or launch an eCommerce site to leverage the digital marketplace and bolster your brick and mortar, understanding your audience is the end all be all.

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What should you know about key convertible debt terms for your start-up?

Our Own Start-up

There are some basic terms in convertible debts that you need to understand for receiving quick financing with minimum risks. Here are a few convertible debt terms defined for you.

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Health Is Wealth: Boost Your Wellness With Smart Probiotics

YFS Magazine

Covid-19 attacks your immune system, so you should take every opportunity to fortify your health –– especially when it comes to gut health.

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Finding fresh funding for Startups…and TaxTaker

Austin Startup

The current turbulent economic environment has made it increasingly more difficult for qualified early-stage startups to receive venture… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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4 Resources for learning about managing a business when starting out

Our Own Start-up

Businesses need as much help as possible in order to survive.

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Email Deliverability: Get into More Inboxes, More Often

ConversionXL

There are few things worse as a marketer than putting a ton of time and effort into your email campaigns only to see them perform poorly. While the usual suspects of content , design , and campaign strategy make a difference, none of that matters unless your email actually makes it to your subscriber’s inbox. Below, we lay out key steps to maximizing your reach, covering three key areas you should know about email deliverability: What deliverability is and why it matters Major factors that

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Improve Your Work Productivity with These Home Office Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Regardless of whether you run a business out of your home or telecommute once in a while, you’ve presumably battled eventually with the large number of interruptions and allurements a home office offers. There are advantages to telecommuting, obviously: diminished travel time, reserve funds on gas and suppers, the solace of working in super comfy clothing.

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Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic

Steve Blank

Remote education in the pandemic has been hard for everyone. Hard for students having to deal with a variety of remote instructional methods. Hard for parents with K through 12 students at home trying to keep up with remote learning, and hard for instructors trying to master new barely functional tools and technology while trying to keep students engaged gazing at them through Hollywood Squares -style boxes.

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What Is Meant By a Bad Habit?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Habits are things that we do repetitively. They can be good or bad, but in most cases, habits can be started and stopped at will. Good habits are things such as always brushing your teeth, being on time, or having good manners at the dinner table. There are some habits that society has deemed to be bad, however. Most of these so-called bad habits breaks laws, customs, or a moral code in society.

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How to Steer Clear of ‘Demon Donors’ When Running a Nonprofit

Up and Running

For nonprofits , especially new ones, donations contribute to the organization’s lifeblood. With that in mind, it would make sense for nonprofit leaders to accept any donations that help them reach goals and continue to operate. Nonprofit partnerships are widespread in the corporate world because they enable businesses and enterprises to join forces with a philanthropic outlet to improve their public profile and the community simultaneously.

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7 Secrets for Creating Quality Content

Women Entrepreneurs Can

For quite some time now,the phrase “Content is king”has made its rounds in the marketing world. But for female entrepreneurs, this may leave a sour taste in their mouths. Why, exactly, should content be King, when there’s as much appeal form content being Queen. But you already know how important content is, and this doesn’t solve your lack of engagement problems.

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How Valence Aims to Provide Better Access and Funding for Black Founders & Executives

Both Sides of the Table

“I gotta say it was a good day.” I’m so fricking pumped today. Really, truly. Yeah, Valence announced > $5 million in funding led by GGV and Upfront. That IS a big deal, but I’ll get to that. But Kamala Harris was picked to be the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. That means she’ll be the first female Vice President of the United States, the first female Black Vice President and the first Indian-American Vice President.

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