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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

With the ITRC 2018 End-of-Year Data Breach Report revealing a 126 percent increase in stolen sensitive personal information, there is a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. My recommendation to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity to make people’s life better, rather than worry and dodge the risk.

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This One Attribute Will Mold You Into A Stronger Leader

YoungUpstarts

by Loriana Sekarski , founder and president of BONSAI. When it comes to successfully leading a team, one attribute in particular is crucial: boldness. Leadership requires braving uncharted waters and choppy seas. It’s the willingness to forge ahead despite unclear situations in order to make tough decisions, even when the outcomes are ambiguous. And now, more than ever, people want valiant leaders who can clear a path through stagnation, confusion, and increased competition.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Whether you’re building the next best home automation system, a revolutionary robotics product, or a new kind of software, the programming language you use to make it happen is the foundation of your work. Therefore, using the right one can save you a great deal of time and money. Source: Pexels. From your team’s familiarity with the language, to development costs and available resources, there are many factors to consider when choosing a programming language.

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Budgeting for Nonprofit Boards 101

Board Effect

Managing a budget for a nonprofit organization is much like planning a household budget, except that there are generally more sources of income and more categories of expenses. In both cases, a sound budget is important for financial sustainability and provides a guide for financial health and sustainability. A budget isn’t a prediction, a forecast, a target or a wish list.

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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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Best U.S. Cities for Startups

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It’s no secret that a lot of people are thinking about starting their own business. After all, there is nothing as satisfying as having your own company. Unfortunately, however, launching a brand new business isn’t as easy – or as glamorous – as TV shows make it out to be. Startups require a lot of strategic planning and preparation, and often times, a substantial financial outlay.

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Yanni Hufnagel: A Coaching Powerhouse

YoungUpstarts

To be a top-notch college basketball assistant coach is to be both an excellent salesman and a brilliant recruiter. Yanni Hufnagel, the assistant coach of the Harvard basketball program between 2009 and 2013 happened to be both. Regarded as one of the top recruiters in college basketball, Yanni Hufnagel was perhaps best known for developing professional NBA basketball player, Jimmy Lin, and for his successful four seasons streak while coaching and recruiting for the Harvard Crimson college baske

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How To Promote Your App And Increase Downloads

YFS Magazine

So you're building an app, but downloads are low or non-existent? Here's what you need to know about app marketing and generating buzz for launch day.

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Customer Retention Strategies: 4 Phases for Development

ConversionXL

Has your company’s customer retention rate increased, decreased, or maintained the status quo over the past five years? Are you actively working on retention? Have you outlined and initiated a formal customer retention strategy? A study by Harvard Business School found that increasing customer retention by even 5% can increase profits by 25 – 95%. And yet, the 2019 CMO Survey found that nearly half of CMOs don’t expect to improve retention this year.

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Drop Your Phone – It’s Time To Take Dating Offline

YFS Magazine

You’d probably rather not know the truth about how much time you spend on your phone. Let’s be totally honest - dating apps are some of the worst offenders.

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How to Protect Your Personal Business Assets

The Startup Magazine

When you own a business, your assets are essential to your company. Chances are, you are hoping and intending to keep the business in the family for a long time. If something goes wrong, you can very well lose your assets to a creditor. An asset protection plan can help protect your assets and preserve them for generations to come. However, most personally or family-owned businesses do not have these protections in place.

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Crossing the Innovation Delaware

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Hope is a Four Letter Word in Innovation. Hope — the cornerstone of innovation culture. Hope is inspired by successful projects; the lesson of Washington at Trenton. In the innovation space there is a great deal of discussion about mindset. Rightfully so, attitude and thinking patterns have everything to do with setting the table for a productive innovation culture.

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Monday Motivation: SACRIFICE – Powerful Motivational Speech (by Jordan Peterson)

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. You should be afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable. You don’t have to be secure, you have to be strong. It’s a moral obligation to find what’s meaningful. We’re built for struggle. You have to go out there and contend.

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5 Tips for Growing Your Agency or Freelance Business Without Spending a Ton of Money

crowdSPRING Blog

“If I work harder, my business will grow faster.” Many entrepreneurs, including agency owners, share this belief. And, it’s true that a strong work ethic is vital to your success – particularly for freelance designers and owners of small and boutique design and marketing agencies. But, with this mentality, it’s easy to see how so many freelancers and agency owners burn themselves out within the first few years of running their businesses.

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