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6 Tips To Avoid Being Blindsided By A New Competitor

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur and business executive knows that continuous innovation is required to survive, but most struggle with this more than any other challenge they face. They know they need to act proactively, but still are often blindsided by a new competitor coming out of the blue with a future they never imagined. Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership.

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A Guide To Outsourcing Services For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Startup businesses often struggle with limited resources. Such companies often have less workload compared to established businesses with a large customer base. Outsourcing allows small companies to get professional services at affordable rates compared to developing in-house talent. It also helps the entrepreneur to concentrate on activities that can help the firm grow.

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How to Use Tiered & Introductory Pricing to Grow Your Business

Up and Running

In a competitive market, consumers are always looking for something that sets a product or service apart. We call this distinguishing factor the Unique Selling Proposition (USP). Customers will assess the value of your product or service against a range of factors. As a consumer, you experience these choices every day. You choose what to buy, based on factors like price , quality, reliability, etc.

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Digital Services Your Business Needs To Consider

YoungUpstarts

Business runs on a few core functions that remain unchanged through centuries of industry. Great product exposure and a sales team dedicated to improving the lives of your customer base act as the face of your company. In order to truly find success this must be matched by a development team that consistently strives to deliver truly life-bettering products and services that customers keep coming back for.

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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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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? There’s an old line from Victor Hugo : “If a man is not a [liberal] at twenty, it is because he has no heart, and if he is one at forty, it is because he has no brains.

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Setting Up A New Nonprofit Branch

YoungUpstarts

The world needs more nonprofits, especially now. With so much of government in gridlock, it seems like the only way to provide youth with better educational services, enrich others’ lives with arts, or help the poor, homeless, or military veterans is by supporting nonprofits with local missions to serve those communities. If you’ve got a strong vision for how you could create a nonprofit organization to make the world a better place, there’s never been a better time to get star

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High Emotional Intelligence: 10 Signs You Have It

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Bradley Nelson, author of “ The Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness “ People who are emotionally intelligent have the ability to identify and manage their own feelings. But just as importantly, they are also good at recognizing when someone else is feeling a certain way, and empathize with them.

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5 Franchise Problems To Avoid

The Startup Magazine

The US Small Business Administration notes that fast-food franchises make up the most popular business type for new entrepreneurs. Franchises are an easy way to trade on the popularity of an established name. From medspa franchise opportunities to retail businesses, there’s no shortage of supply. However, getting into a franchise relies on understanding what the company expects back from you.

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Technology For Scaling Your Real Estate Company

YoungUpstarts

You don’t become a real estate mogul overnight. In fact, it can take years in order to fully scale your real estate company up to be able to match the size and reputation of companies like Venterra Realty , located in Austin, TX. Some of the things that have helped realty management companies like Venterra grow is their emphasis on customer service and employee satisfaction, as well as the fact that they embrace technology as a means to these ends.

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Minimizing Risks Associated with Communications Tax Compliance

The Startup Magazine

Communications taxes provide a wide range of services to many businesses. This is the reason why a lot of tax teams subconsciously enter a complex compliance environment. Keeping this in view, it is essential for business and tax advisors to understand how to assess and minimize communication tax compliance risks. . Communication support, call center and customer service help desk.

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Why People Say Yes To High-Ticket Products And Services

YFS Magazine

Many people think price is the most important purchasing decision factor. But this isn’t always true, especially for high-ticket offers.

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Show your employees you care this Christmas

The Startup Magazine

No matter what industry you work in, this year has been exceptionally tough on all employers and employees. Whether your employees are keyworkers, have adapted to working from home, or have been furloughed, you can show them you care this Christmas with these employee gift ideas. Gift vouchers. Gift vouchers are one of the most popular ways to say thank you, and when paired with a handwritten card will be much appreciated.

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Branding Your Side Hustle to Build a Strong Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

A look at the branding elements you need to get your side hustle off the ground to create a strong brand.

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5 Strategies to Help Malls Better Engage Shoppers

The Startup Magazine

More and more shoppers are turning to online and mobile purchases these days, with 51% of millennials preferring to purchase things on their digital devices even when they’re in a brick-and-mortar store. As mobile tech and companies like Amazon begin to dominate the retail space, physical malls need to find ways to fight back and entice shoppers to visit.

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Tips to optimise your online presence: Part 2

NZ Entrepreneur

Part Two: Mapping the customer journey. As the country’s largest fixed line broadband company, Chorus is well placed to help identify what good broadband looks like. But we want to go beyond that, to help Kiwi SMEs with their own digital transformations so they can make the most of the world class broadband we now have in New Zealand. With over 90 percent of consumers now using the internet to find a local business—33 percent looking every day—it’s clear that even if you are a bricks-and-m

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Monday Motivation: UNLOCK GREATNESS – The Most Powerful Motivational Speech | Coach Pain

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Here are some takeaways from the video: You have to go through it to get to it. You must be strong, resilient and take whatever comes at you. Take a good look at yourself from the inside out. You were born to win, don’t ever give up on you.

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The Pre/Post COVID Wedding market in India

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we take a look at the Wedding market in India. We take a look at the current.

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