Wed.Feb 05, 2020

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5 Ways Keeping A Journal Has Made Me A Better Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Mayne, founder and CEO of Day One Journal. It’s been nearly 10 years since I started my company. Like every entrepreneur, growing a company was no small feat, with sleepless nights, unexpected challenges and looming deadlines. It’s also been 10 years since I committed to keeping a daily journal. While the stress that comes with owning and running my own company will never go away, I’ve found the simple act of journaling has made me a better entrepreneur.

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Seven Important Product Packaging Tips to Consider

The Startup Magazine

Some companies don’t put enough thought into how they are packaging their products. If you want to help to sell your products to consumers, then thinking about the packaging is imperative. Having eye-catching custom packaging will help certain products to stand out from the competition. Take a look at the following seven important product packaging tips that you should be considering.

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ZohoDay: Productivity and Purpose

deal architect

I have had a few days to reflect on the Zoho Analyst Summit. There were so many varied perspectives but a few things really jumped out as I looked at my notes Productivity From last year's analyst day, I had.

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5 Startup Challenges That Derail Many Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I tend to see many of the same obstacles appearing in every new startup, and since I don’t want to appear to be a downer , I’m not sure how to properly warn people ahead of time to be on the alert for these challenges. In fact, since most entrepreneurs are eternal optimists anyway, they would never believe any negative scenarios could happen to them.

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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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Staff Motivation: What Really Works

Women Entrepreneurs Can

We all know that if you want to get the most out of your employees, you need to make sure that you are properly motivating them. That is not necessarily something that always comes easily, but it is the kind of thing you can improve upon over time. Doing so is certainly going to mean that your business is in a better state, that you are getting more out of your employees, and that things are moving towards your business goals generally.

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How To Grow And Expand Your Brand Into One That Customers Can Trust

YoungUpstarts

Branding is one of the most important attributes of a business. After all, consumers place plenty of emphasis on brand ethics and what the company stands for. But, it’s not as simple as many people believe to establish your brand as one your audience can trust, and many entrepreneurs don’t know how to go about it. Not sure where to start?

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Are Growing Pains Afflicting Your Business? How To Successfully Scale Your Company

YoungUpstarts

by Shawn Burcham , founder and CEO of PFSbrands and author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success “ Ambitious entrepreneurs often are determined to grow their businesses by expanding into new areas, adding new products, and increasing the size of their workforce. But growth comes with potential hazards, which is why one of the leading causes of business failure is overexpansion – growing too much too fast.

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Is Elon Musk Considering Texas for a Tesla GigaFactory?

SiliconHills

Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking people to vote yes or no for Giga Texas. The vote is 80.2 percent “Hell Yeah” in favor late Wednesday night with two hours left to vote. A gigafactory in Texas would presumably produce Tesla cars or trucks. But Musk did not provide any specifics on what […]. The post Is Elon Musk Considering Texas for a Tesla GigaFactory?

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Hotel Tech Companies to Watch in 2020

The Startup Magazine

Technology has innovated nearly every industry, and the hotel industry is no exception. The Hotel business is complicated with many different areas from customer service, to reservations, to hospitality and payments needing to be coordinated in order to insure that guests have the best possible service and experience. New technologies allow hotels to provide better service and to do it cost effectively.

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New Podcast – Funding Frequency

Feld Thoughts

I do a lot of random podcasts and especially like to be an early guest on new ones to help get them started. 001 – Brad Feld. The first five episodes are with me, David Cohen, Susan Conover, Amos Schwartzfarb, and Charlie O’Donnell. Andrew Waine is the producer. He’s currently a senior at the University of Florida finishing his Bachelor’s degree in the Summer of 2020.

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6 Common Startup Mistakes That Every New Employer Should Avoid

The Startup Magazine

Being a new employer, you need to know the appropriate steps to hiring and firing your employees. Here are the common startup hiring mistakes to avoid. Did you know that motivated employees are essential for the success of your company? Seek enthusiastic and hardworking individuals. Are you worried about the common startup hiring issues you may face?

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Sputnik ATX Selects Four Startups For its Winter 2020 Accelerator Program

SiliconHills

Sputnik ATX has announced the latest group of four startup companies accepted into its Winter 2020 Cohort. The startups include Austin-based Mod Tech Labs, which is a spinoff of Underminer Studios. The startup works with production studios to create 3D images and videos. Austin-based Trashbots is also in the cohort. It makes programmable robotics kits […].

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Avoid These 5 Pitfalls While Trading Stocks

The Startup Magazine

It is easy to make mistakes while investing, especially if it is your first time. However, even experienced investors may make a few mistakes if they are not careful. At times, these mistakes are repeated over and over again. They may be harmful to both the investors and the trader. However, if careful enough, these issues can be easily avoided. Here, we will discuss five such investing pitfalls that one may easily fall for but can avoid if careful.

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Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits and How Your Board Can Get Involved

Board Effect

Asking for money for a nonprofit is difficult for many people. There are numerous ways to fundraise for nonprofits that take little time or effort. Most nonprofits expect their board directors, members, and volunteers to drive the cause forward by spreading the need throughout their personal and professional networks. For those who feel like they’ve financially tapped out their friends, family members, and other connections, there are still plenty of ways that they can help to raise funds for an

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What Unified Communications (UC) Can Mean for Your Business

The Startup Magazine

What is Unified Communications (UC)? It’s a simple question, but perhaps the question you should ask first is: why does your business need it? Well, consider the fact that roughly 80% of workers globally, about three billion people, do physical or desk-free work daily, says CustomerThink. For many businesses, keeping track of all their workers who are out “in the field” threatens to be difficult.

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Creating the Right Morning Routine To Transform Your Day

Duct Tape Marketing

Creating the Right Morning Routine To Transform Your Day written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Amy Landino. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast my guest is entrepreneur, vlogger, speaker, and author Amy Landino. As the award-winning host of AmyTV, she’s reached millions of viewers with her inspiring message to go after the life you want.

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How to Increase Brand Awareness

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Ensuring people know about you and your brand is an absolute must. Increasing brand awareness is something business owners and their key staff have meetings about up and down the country. When a potential customer thinks of a product, you want them to think about your brand, in a similar way to Coke with Coca-Cola. But, not only do they need to know about the brand, but it needs to be associated with a positive connotation.

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Are you ambitious? I guess I am, right? Maybe?

Jeff Hilimire

Photo by Japheth Mast on Unsplash. I think of myself as ambitious. Most of the time. But then, there’s times when I question that. For instance, when I talk about how I spend my time, I break it down against three buckets: Family, Dragon Army , and Doing Good. And I usually make an example by saying, “I rarely, if ever, go to business meetings or events at night.

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Female Founder Interview: Tanesha Lambert – Catalysts for Growth

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series, we interviewed Ms. Tanesha Lambert. Tanesha is the founder and CEO of Intelquest, a business growth consultant in Naperville, Illinois. With a focus on ambitious entrepreneurs looking to expand, her firm helps clients develop strategic partnerships that help them live out their dreams. It provides solutions to startups and small businesses that help them develop and implement their growth strategies.

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How to Use Google Data Studio to Build Better Dashboards

ConversionXL

Set up the measurement tool. Clean and process the data. Turn it into information. Analyze it. Extract insights. That’s hard work. But to have value, there’s still another step—the work must also be well communicated. You want data to form a straight line from KPIs to influencing business decisions. If you’ve worked in web analytics for a while, you’ve suffered the pain of building graphs and tables in spreadsheets and then, once a “decent” dashboard has been set up, trying to automate it.

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Transcript of Creating the Right Morning Routine To Transform Your Day

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Creating the Right Morning Routine To Transform Your Day written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing.

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5 Enterprise Cybersecurity Mistakes To Avoid

YoungUpstarts

There’s no shortage of examples of enterprises that have been burned by cybersecurity breaches in recent years. Since threats are getting more sophisticated, it’s the responsibility of organizations to react with better security measures. Here are five enterprise cybersecurity mistakes to avoid. Ignoring Permissions Settings. Not everyone within an organization needs access to the same information.

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