Mon.Jan 11, 2021

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Of Compliance And Cybersecurity: Bolstering Business Credibility And Continuity

YoungUpstarts

by Andy Prakash, founder of Privacy Ninja. The increasing pervasiveness of online activities have led to a greater demand for interconnectivity. This environment is more apparent in nations such as Singapore where there is extensive internet connectivity and the citizens are digitally knowledgeable. Thanks to the Singapore government’s unrelenting drive for its Smart Nation initiative, both public and private organisations have also been working towards a digitally inclusive and interconnected s

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Assessing Nonprofit Board Composition for Better Outcomes

Board Effect

When nonprofit board dynamics are collegial and trusting, you have the perfect climate for robust and productive board discussions. That alone provides sufficient reason for your board to be diligent in its approach to nominating and recruiting the best potential candidates to ensure that your nonprofit board composition is just right. With every board member term that ends, a new one begins.

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4 Accounting Tips For Startups And Small Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Swapnil Shinde, Co-Founder and CEO of Zeni. If you want your business to grow, it’s vital to have the right financial foundation. If your accounting processes aren’t in order, you may not have a complete picture of your startup’s financial health and could be leaving money on the table. In my 15+ years as a startup founder, investor, and advisor — and now in my role as CEO of a bookkeeping and accounting startup — I’ve come across countless businesses whose accounts aren’t accurate or GAAP-co

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How Venture Capital Decision Making Has Changed During the Pandemic

View from Seed

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. Despite the beginnings of a vaccine rollout, it’s likely that the conditions created by Covid-19 will continue to persist for some time. Zoom calls have taken the place of in-person meetings. Investors previously prone to onsite visits and amassed airline miles, now grapple with how to form relationships and build confidence without having met teams in person.

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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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8 Keys To A Major Source Of Funding For New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. Their only recourse is that first tier of investors, fondly called Friends, Family and Fools. These are the only people likely to believe in newbies, with only minimal product evidence or business experience.

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How Startup Founders Can Battle Insomnia

YoungUpstarts

As a hard-working entrepreneur, you probably have been encouraged to think that sleep is for the weak. After all, “you snooze, you lose,” right? The reality is that sleep deprivation can negatively affect your overall health. If you suffer from sleep insomnia, you are probably aware of these unwanted side effects. Here are the four secrets to battling insomnia as a startup founder.

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5 Things To Do After A Car Accident Injury

YoungUpstarts

According to statistics, over 2.5 million people get injured by car accidents every year. Often the injuries are severe and need expensive medical treatments. The sad part is that most insurance companies offer minimal settlements that cannot cover all expenses resulting from the accident. Do you realize what makes people settle for less compensation?

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Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups

Hunter Walker

And My Ask Of Investors In These Companies. It’s frustrating if you’re a customer of an expense report SaaS startup and the company goes out of business, but it’s potentially devastating if your tele-therapist or addiction counselor suddenly disappears because the platform that employed them ran out of money. This is my most significant concern about the wave of mental wellness startups being funded with venture dollars — what happens to the clients of the ones which fail?

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A Marketer’s Guide To Effective Employee Training

YoungUpstarts

Be it a marketing agency or an architectural firm, employee training should be an integral part of the company culture. . When your employees comprehend that your organization keeps their growth as a priority, the chances of them performing better increase. The better the performance, the more is the success of the organization. . However, one of the major concerns that every marketer has is not the ineffectiveness of training deployed to his creative team. .

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How COVID-19 Has Affected the Trucking Industry

The Startup Magazine

2020 was one of the strangest years on record. Throughout the year, consumers and business owners had to adjust to a world with COVID-19, and the many changes a global pandemic brings with it. If you own or manage a trucking company, you know what a whirlwind 2020 was. As 2021 begins, now is the time to set goals for your trucking business. Before you start to make a plan for this fresh start, you should understand the changing landscape of the industry.

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How Is Loan Interest Calculated?

YoungUpstarts

Most people fully understand how borrowing works: you get a loan that you eventually will repay, in addition to an interest, or a fee, for being able to use the lender’s money at your convenience. Interest helps those who lend to get a profit from making their resources available. The question is, how much should you expect to be charged as interest for your loan?

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Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Competitors

The Startup Magazine

There is competition in every business, and it affects your way to handle a business. Many of your decisions are somehow driven by your competitors and you may feel motivated to react in a certain way, but this is not a healthy choice for your business. One should not be worried about his/her competitors all the time and should focus on their business.

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The 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Rebranding

Up and Running

Most small businesses stabilize in two to three years. It’s when it starts to be profitable and become more familiar to the audience. A company builds a brand image to become a distinct voice in the market. It is also one that people will grow more familiar with and connect with. However, as time passes, it’s essential for any business to eventually rebrand and do it at the right time with the right approach.

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Common Payroll Mistakes New Entrepreneurs Make

The Startup Magazine

The idea of being an entrepreneur is widely romanticized, but the reality involves a lot of long hours and hard work getting to grips with the more complex aspects of building a business from scratch. Many budding company owners make payroll mistakes early on in their careers which can cause everything from employee disgruntlement to regulatory penalties.

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Forget Resolutions And Focus On Purpose

YFS Magazine

This past year was fraught with more uncertainty, twists, and WTFs than most of us prepared for. We learned to expect the unexpected.

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2021 – The Year for Expanding Instagram Live Chats and Stories

The Startup Magazine

The year 2020 exposed humans to unprecedented situations. With limitations on physical movement and social-distancing norms, people have taken to the digital platform for staying active. There have been various changes and up-gradations on the social media platform with censorship concerns, privacy issues, and commercialization. The constant up-gradation in algorithms makes marketing efforts more effective and well performed.

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Monday Motivation: Beast Mentality – Powerful Motivational Video 2021

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: What’s your purpose for playing this game? What’s your passion, purpose and reason for determination? It dawns at the darkest moment. You have come too far to give up. True champions get hungrier every time they win.

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1/26/2021 Tip: The Most Profitable Marketing Tactic

Growthink Blog

Today’s Quote Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. ~ Henry Ford Today’s Tip Referrals are one of, if not the most cost-effective and profitable tactics to grow your sales. Here are the keys to an effective referral system. Step 1: Make the […]. The post 1/26/2021 Tip: The Most Profitable Marketing Tactic appeared first on Growthink.

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7 Creative and Free Backlink Building Tips for 2021

The Startup Magazine

Backlinks are super important and help your website gain credibility with Google. They also make your website more reachable to your target audience. Essentially, backlinks are when another website redirects its audience to your website. For Google, seeing a backlink is an indication of your website’s credibility. If you are working on your website’s SEO, then backlinks will play a critical part in improving your SERPS (search engine results pages).

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