Fri.Jul 31, 2020

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What is a Wastewater Treatability Study, and Why Is It Important for Your Business?

The Startup Magazine

Most factories and manufacturing processes generate wastewater. Therefore, it’s the responsibility of a corporation to understand wastewater treatability and develop an efficient treatment system. This includes startup manufacturers that need to understand the long term impacts of their business plans. Wastewater exists in two categories: greywater and blackwater.

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7 Personal Strategies That Define Great Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor in startups, I’m a believer that smart investors invest more in you as the entrepreneur than the next billion dollar solution you are pitching. Yet I find that most of you find it hard to make the case that you can be the next Elon Musk or Bill Gates. I’m not looking for words, but examples of how your habits and attributes have produced results, even before your startup.

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The Challenges That A Start-Up Face

YoungUpstarts

The odds are against most new businesses starting in the UK. According to the ONS , more than half of businesses fail within the first three years of operation. And that was before challenges like COVID-19 were even being considered! To stand the best chance of survival, budding entrepreneurs might look to the example set by those who’ve previously enjoyed some success.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective VCs

VC Cafe

Chances are, you’ve read or at least heard about the book “ The 7 habits of highly effective people “ First published in 1989 and with over 40 million copies sold, It’s one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history. For the 30 year anniversary, the publishers kindly sent me a copy of the new edition with fresh insights from Stephen R.

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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 Things To Know Before Investing In A Mutual Fund

YoungUpstarts

When you are looking to grow your personal wealth, you have many options that you can consider. Each of these options will carry with them a certain amount of risk, as there is no such thing as a sure thing when it comes to investments. That being said, with the right guidance and consideration, you could very well stand to gain a desirable return on your investment.

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What to Do If You Have a Slip and Fall Incident

The Startup Magazine

Did you slip and fall at work? Click here to learn the steps you should follow and how to get an attorney if you are seriously injured. Slip and fall workplace accidents are no joke. As the Center for Disease Control and Prevention points out, such accidents even led to 798 deaths in 2014. Given the severity of the situation, it’s important to know what to do if you find yourself injured at work.

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How Smaller Businesses Can Beat Big E-Commerce Brands

YFS Magazine

As a startup or small business, competing with larger corporations, whose monthly marketing spend exceeds your annual revenue, can be downright scary.

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Book and Podcast Suggestions for This Weekend

Feld Thoughts

The week after George Floyd was murdered, I decided to read a book a week by a Black author. I went online and found a bunch of lists that had popped up. I bought about 25 books, all in physical form, and piled them up on my reading table near my couch. On Saturdays, my primary activities of the day are reading, running, napping, and being with Amy.

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How to Ensure Your New Startup is Legally Compliant

The Startup Magazine

There are many different areas that need attention when starting a new business and one which you absolutely need to get right is being legally compliant. It is vital that everything is legal and above board from the very start as you do not want to become entangled in an expensive legal issue before you have even had a chance to succeed. This can be a complex area, so read on for advice on how you can ensure that your new startup is legally compliant.

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July 2020 Trends in Growth Capital Financings

Growthink Blog

Our investment banking arm – Growthink Capital – just released its assessment of growth capital financings that occurred during July 2020. July 2020 saw yet again another increase in venture and growth capital funding events when compared to June. We tracked $7.1 billion in new funding events during the month, up from $6.4 in June and […]. The post July 2020 Trends in Growth Capital Financings appeared first on Growthink.

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Ferrari Energy’s CEO, Adam Ferrari Outlines How to Prepare Your Small Business for a Post-Coronavirus Recession

The Startup Magazine

The time is now for businesses to plan for an inevitable post-COVID-19 recession. Recessions result in reduced demand and disruption to the global supply chain. Adam Ferrari founded his own company, Ferrari Energy, to educate landowners on how to manage their acreage best. He, too, has started necessary preparations for the severe economic downturn that is likely to follow the coronavirus pandemic.

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How to Take Your Business Global

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Doing business around the world can seem like an impossible dream if you’re still just operating in your hometown. However, every year, small businesses make the leap and go global. Like most long journeys, taking your business global can be simplified into a series of steps. Here are the basic steps to take help you go global. Start your campaign to grow into an international business by preparing the right business plan.

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26 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. Motivating yourself can be hard but practicing consistent habits such as reminding yourself of why you started can be a major boost. A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- A morning routine of checking my daily revenue.

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How to Keep Customers on Board

Women Entrepreneurs Can

For your business to be a success , you need to make sure that you keep your customer’s buying. Remember, it’s easier and indeed cheaper to retain customers rather than attempt to attract new ones and it really is as simple as that. So, the question you need to ask is this: how do you keep customers happy with the service that you are providing?

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How Spas are Adapting to the Coronavirus

The Startup Magazine

Spas are beginning to open up again, but it remains to be seen whether that is good or bad news. After being stuck in homes for months being stressed out at the world going into flames, a spa treatment can sound like a wonderful thing. But the reality is that coronavirus cases are rising in states such as California and Texas, which has prompted some to worry about whether spa businesses should be shut down once again.

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Ideas and Solutions for a Post-COVID Workplace

Women Entrepreneurs Can

More and more of us are returning to the office, rather than working from home. However, going back to work for many of us is going to look pretty different to how things were when we left. Some of the changes can feel a little surreal, as people are in masks and there are large partitions to keep people apart. For some it could be a little lonely, as meetings may still take place virtually rather than in person, and many businesses will phase the return to work, bringing people back in groups a

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