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6 Ways To Doom Your Startup Despite A Great Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that. Many are just not facing the reality that their passion had a critical business flaw. As I was contemplating a classic book “ Dead Companies Walking ,” by Scott Fearon, who runs a hedge fund that profits from businesses headed toward b

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Setting Yourself Up for Success: Building a Business Before Having Kids

Women Entrepreneurs Can

We’ve all heard the difficulties of balancing career and kids as a woman, and the media constantly likes to remind us that we can’t ‘have it all.’ But while it’s not easy, it’s not impossible so don’t be deterred or let anyone tell you that it is. If you’re in the fortunate position of being earlier on in your life/career and wanting to plan for the future, setting up a business venture that will allow you to easily earn money once you start a family can be an excellent move.

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Reduce Overhead Costs With These 5 Smart Tips

YoungUpstarts

If you own a small business or you’re self-employed, you will know only too well how crippling overhead costs can be. Unfortunately, operating costs are a necessity, meaning you need to spend money in order to make any. For those who are in tough economic conditions, keeping overhead costs to a minimum should be your first step, so here are a few tips to help keep costs down.

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SEO Spring Cleaning

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There is no doubt that we are living in uncertain times. Our daily lives have been disrupted beyond belief and many people are finding themselves with more time on their hands. Every cloud has a silver lining (let’s be positive!) and there is no better time to roll the digital sleeves up and engage with some spring cleaning of your website. Everyone is online and search engine optimization(SEO) is as important as ever to ensure that your website is found by those looking for your products / serv

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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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Digital Sabbath in the Time of Covid

Feld Thoughts

I usually do a digital sabbath from Friday sundown to Sunday morning. No email. No meetings (except urgent ones). I used to do no phone, but the text dynamic to coordinate getting together has made that difficult (even in the world of Covid) so I check the lock screen on my phone a few times a day and deal with anything important. Until yesterday, I hadn’t had a digital sabbath since 3/14.

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Tips on How to Pick a Legit Quality Moving Company

The Startup Magazine

Over the previous decade, there has been an ascent in the number of complaints against moving organizations. You should find movers with good qualities. A moving company should move your possessions starting with one area then onto the next in mint condition. Yet, discreditable companies adopt you if you don’t know about the regular tricks occurring today.

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The Steps Any Business Owner Should Take Ahead of Retirement

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you’re of the age at which retirement is starting to enter your thinking, you might want to consider what this might mean for your business. Retiring as an employee and retiring as a business owner are two very different things and there are some decisions that will need to be made and things to consider before you can push ahead with your retirement plans.

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Remote Jobs: The Fair Pay Rate Dilemma

Transformify

Coronavirus pandemic had an unexpected side effect – organizations that were reluctant to adopt home office and remote work had no other choice than asking their employees to work from home. Digital nomads across the globe jumped from joy foreseeing an immediate rise in the number of location independent remote jobs. However, nothing like this has happened and is unlikely to happen in the coming years.

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3 Ways to Make Money from Cryptocurrency in 2020

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Cryptocurrency is a very popular investment strategy right now and there are a lot of stories about people that made their millions by trading in digital currency. This led to a lot of people getting in on the act, hoping that they would make their fortune as well. In reality, those people got incredibly lucky at the beginning of the cryptocurrency boom and it is unlikely that you will become a millionaire overnight if you start trading in cryptocurrency.

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