Fri.Jan 10, 2020

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

by Zain Jaffer, serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures. Running a small business can come with a slew of challenges. Among the list: the loss of a major client. In many cases, this scenario is inevitable and difficult to prevent. When it occurs, the consequences can be swift and devastating, wreaking potential havoc on a once steady stream of revenue.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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Contractor Surety Bonds 101

The Startup Magazine

If you’re involved in construction, you are probably up to date with all the changes happening in the field. Technology is becoming more and more important with each passing year, there is an impending construction worker shortage, and more construction companies are opting for green construction practices in an effort to appease customers and do their part to save the planet.

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Visual Merchandising: Online Startups Cannot Afford to OverlookVisual Merchandising: Online Startups Cannot Afford to Overlook

ReadWriteStart

Into the realm of visual merchandising, we are going to see how this vital and exciting marketing technique can propel sales in the fashion business. Retail stores have long been using visual merchandising as an effective way to provide customers with a unique experience of purchasing products. Here is why online startups cannot afford to overlook visual merchandising.

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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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4 Significant Categories Of Trophies And Awards You Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Besides serving as evidence of achievement, there is no other better way of celebrating courage, victory, and skill than through a trophy. There are several things you need to know about the different types of awards. When settling on the ideal trophy design, you will probably need to look for and work with a reputable firm, and that should expose you to several outstanding qualities.

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4 Ways to Effectively Build Brand Authority in Your Industry

crowdSPRING Blog

From infancy, humans are trained to follow the instruction or recommendations of those in authority. Often, authority is determined more by perception than any concrete trait, knowledge or ability. But the instinct to follow experts (perceived or otherwise) doesn’t go away. We simply cannot know everything. And most of us don’t have the time to….

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How to Start a Property Portfolio in 2020

The Startup Magazine

It’s common knowledge that the housing market is a little less stable and accessible than it was in previous generations. For younger people, then, it’s more difficult to get onto the housing ladder, and from there to make that second purchase to build a portfolio of housing and properties which you can then begin to work on, diversify or rent out. In this article, you’ll learn how you can make that giant leap into the property investing way of life, with simple tips provided to help you get ahe

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A Guide To Starting A Business In Los Angeles

YoungUpstarts

Los Angeles is a fantastic location to open up a business. Due to the location and the large number of people in the area, any business has the opportunity to succeed here. However, without the proper knowledge, starting up a business can be an exhausting process. If you have considered opening up a business in Los Angeles, but you don’t know where to start, then today we will be having a look at the best way to go about it, so you can fully understand what you will be getting yourself into.

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What I Wish I’d Known About Networking From Day One

YFS Magazine

I never thought I’d be telling anyone how attending hundreds of networking events has enriched both my career and personal life exponentially.

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How Philadelphia is Winning a Startup Renaissance

The Startup Magazine

The City of Brotherly Love. The Birthplace of America. The town that introduced the world to Rocky Balboa and cheesesteaks. Philadelphia gets called a lot of things. To locals, Pennsylvania’s largest metro area is simply “Philly”. One thing this historic city doesn’t often get noticed for is its emerging Philadelphia startup scene. In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots.

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Interview I did about Forward Partners for Soldo

The Equity Kicker

See below for a good description of what we like to see in deals at Forward Partners and what makes us different from other VCs. I gave the interview last year, and it was published this week on the Soldo blog. An interview with Nic Brisbourne, Forward Partners. Nic Brisbourne is Managing Partner at Forward Partners, the UK’s leading early-stage VC, currently supporting the UK’s next generation of AI, e-commerce and marketplace businesses.

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Risk Management Issues in Healthcare

Board Effect

It seems that the healthcare industry gets more complex every year. That’s a good reason in and of itself for key stakeholders to expect healthcare providers to be as transparent as possible. Stakeholders still have much concern about the nature and magnitude of risks that are included – or not included – in the corporate strategy. According to the seventh annual survey by Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative , the top concerns for risks in the healthcare industry inclu

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Why there are so many dragons in Vegas this weekend

Jeff Hilimire

Photo by Heather Gill on Unsplash. Vegas, baby! That’s right, I’m in Las Vegas at the moment (trying to deal with the 3-hour time difference that only a parent can properly complain about). Why am I here, you ask? It’s not because of the gambling (I’m not really a gambler). It’s certainly not the night life (if I make it past 9 pm Vegas-time it will be a miracle).

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10 Ways For Entrepreneurs To Enhance Their Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Most new entrepreneurs don’t anticipate the learning burden of being the leader, including the sense of loneliness and isolation at the top. People outside the team can’t relate to the pressures of “the buck stops here,” and everyone on the team assumes that they are the primary ones under pressure to deliver. Even in a single entrepreneur startup, the leader carries a heavy weight.