YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Even the smallest companies rely on vendors to provide them with the supplies and services they need to stay in business themselves. Strong vendor relationships can allow your company to save money and work towards business goals while mitigating risk — and all vendor relationships come with inherent risk. The more essential the vendor is to your business, the greater those risks can be, and many of them are out of your control.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If you are looking to get more leads for your real estate business, you may be considering a lead generating service like SetSchedule. Every business and agent has their own distinct needs, and not every service will be appropriate for every agent. Let these SetSchedule reviews help you determine if your business could benefit from this real estate lead generation program.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If you’re an e-commerce site, you’re probably always looking for new ways to generate more sales. And if you can find influencers to promote your e-commerce on social media, you may be able to achieve this goal. Did you know that 87% of consumers say they’ve made a purchase based on content they saw from influencers? If you’ve already launched influencer campaigns, hopefully you saw similar results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a business advisor, I listen to many of you entrepreneurs talking about achieving your dreams, but too few of you have structured that dream, and can express it in a set of specific goals, with a timeline for getting there. You all hope I have some magic formula for success , but the reality is that only you can pick the goals that match your passion, work ethic, and desired outcome.

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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

Startup

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Welcome to the first installment of the NextView Ventures Early Stage Startup Guides. Over the years, we’ve worked with, and talked to thousands of founders just starting out. Every stage of building a company comes with a certain set of challenges, and we have written a lot of content around the earliest set of challenges. That’s why we decided to create a series of guides that help tackle some of these early stage problems.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

by Lonny Kocina, CEO of Media Relations Agency and author of “ The CEO’s Guide to Marketing: The Book Every Marketer Should Read Before Their Boss Does “. Since the pandemic started, it seems businesses are either growing or going under. Marketing is a necessity to remind customers why they should be doing business with you, but spending money without a systematic approach is scary.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A life coach helps you realize your true values and your passions in life. Despite many stressors, this wellness professional can help create a more fulfilling and positive life. Note that the benefits of a hiring good life coach are relatively endless, but you need to hire the right professional before you can reap these advantages. Here are six things to consider as you look for the right life coach. 1.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. The key word is "excerpt" - no more than 15-20% of what is presented.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technological innovations can offer incredible opportunities for advancement to people around the world. One of the groups with the highest potential to benefit is those who suffer from any sort of disability. For those dealing with cerebral palsy, tech innovations have the potential to completely transform their lives. Cerebral palsy involves permanent movement disorders, and symptoms first appear in early childhood.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. Bill Hewitt, CEO presented to me on Aternity's Digital Experience Management (DEM) platform. They.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Occupational health and safety remain the top priority for most companies, and rightly so. The success of your business depends on the productivity of those working within the premises. Therefore, taking care of your employees will ensure that they give their best in whatever duties assigned to them. In addition, every worker has a right to demand for a safe working environment.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Does your heart skip a beat when one of your employees jumps in their vehicle during work hours? Sometimes it doesn’t matter if their job involves a car or if someone is just running down to the post office to mail something important. If an accident occurs, then employer liability can get questioned. If the driver of the car, truck, bike, or other vehicle is on the job, then it’s likely that the employer is liable for injuries that result from an accident where the employee is at fa

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The structure of nonprofits varies in many ways and that has a major impact on CEO compensation for nonprofit organizations. It’s impossible to establish one-size-fits-all CEO compensation packages. In fact, large numbers of nonprofit CEOs don’t get financial compensation of any kind. From a compliance standpoint, the IRS established compensation rules for nonprofit CEOs and other executives so nonprofits that have healthy budgets don’t overcompensate their leaders, which could compromise the in

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Social media influencers are frequently criticized for being shallow and only concerned with appearance but in reality, many influencers are involved in doing good in the world. There are many examples of influencers who have leveraged their position to help others as well as their community. Amanda Jo of Organic Bunny describes some of the ways in which social media influencers are making a difference in the world.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

MassChallenge’s Austin accelerator has announced its top 12 startup finalists for 2020. The startups will compete for $500,000 in cash prizes with winners announced on Thursday, Oct. 22 during a virtual awards ceremony. “While the world continues to settle into the digital environment, business owners, executives, and governments are seeking innovative ways to operate fully, […].

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

No one wants to think about the worst-case scenarios, but when it comes to your business, you don’t have the luxury of putting those things aside. If you live in an area where natural disasters are common, the morally and financially responsible thing to do is to have a plan of attack for when those things inevitably happen. You’ll thank your past self for making preparations early—after all, the more precautions you can take, the fewer reactions you’ll have to make when the worst comes to pass.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can empower enterprises to take their operations to new heights, as companies no longer have to choose between sustainability, safety and their bottom line. By, Jory Schwach, CEO Andium. New Information from IIoT. As prices for hardware and sensors continue to drop, organizations can now cost-effectively add intelligence and connectivity to their industrial infrastructure.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Nearly 75% of SaaS companies offer a free trial. Trials give potential customers a taste of life with your product at minimal risk. They also give you the opportunity to earn their business. But while free trials are commonplace, how long should yours be? Should you require a credit card? How can you get more users to purchase? There is no magic formula.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

No small business can afford to regard cyberattacks as unlikely occurrences. Even if your enterprise has never been the victim of hacking, data theft or virus propagation, you can’t depend on raw luck to keep you safe. Unfortunately, a staggering number of small businesses are either unaware of severe cyberthreats or simply indifferent to them. Since a single attack has the power to compromise your business’s most sensitive data, you’d be wise to step up your enterprise’s cyber security efforts

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

(This post also appeared on Bolster.com ). As we wrote in our Founding Manifesto , Bolster was started in part to create a new way for startup and scaleup CEOs to think about growing their leadership teams. Why do CEOs need help with this? CEOs of any company have too many things to do at all times. This is even more true at startups and scaleups, which by definition are more fast-paced, dynamic, CEO-driven, and thinly staffed.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Urchin , later acquired by Google, invented an amazing way of measuring campaign performance by using last non-direct click attribution and first-party cookies. The solution was perfect—for earlier times: People used mostly one device. Smartphones were rare. Advertisers avoided mobile apps and browsers because user experience was, at that time, horrible.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

(This post also appeared on Bolster.com ). As we wrote in our Founding Manifesto , Bolster was started in part to create a new way for startup and scaleup CEOs to think about growing their leadership teams. Why do CEOs need help with this? CEOs of any company have too many things to do at all times. This is even more true at startups and scaleups, which by definition are more fast-paced, dynamic, CEO-driven, and thinly staffed.

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