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7 Tips On Advancing Your Career To Being A Great Boss

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the things I’ve learned in working with aspiring entrepreneurs is that managing and leading a team is a scary venture into the unknown for many people, even if they have worked as a business professional for years. Having worked in my own career on both sides of the fence at various times, I recommend that everyone practice thinking like the boss in every role to prepare.

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4 Ways AI Is Transforming the Business Landscape

Women Entrepreneurs Can

From banking to marketing, artificial intelligence is impacting industries all across the board. It is revolutionizing our economy and helping companies cross critical business chasms. But, how exactly is it managing to achieve that? Boosting the World of Finance. The finance industry is spearheading the AI revolution. According to McKinsley, financial services companies that have adopted AI boast profit margins that are 3% to 15% higher than the industry average.

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Utmost: Software for a clover-leaf talent economy

deal architect

Five years ago, as part of my research for the book on automation, Silicon Collar, I coined the term "Alt-Job". I saw millions of workers and small businesses in franchises like those of McDonald's or the UPS Store, selling products.

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Best Practices In Relocating Your Millennial Workforce

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a staggering fact: Millennials (Gen Y) make up the largest generation in the current workforce. This has impacted the way organizations run their workspaces in a way that skews towards technology, collaboration, and flexibility. This being said, companies need to change the way they conduct relocation practices. According to an article in SHRM , the majority of HR managers report that millennials are the hardest generation to relocate as they don’t see relocation as a priority and have di

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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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Are You At Your Best Right Now?

Feld Thoughts

I’m not. And I know a lot of people who aren’t. I’m trying hard, but I’m aware that there are many moments where I’m nowhere close to being my best. Every day, I feel confused by behavior from someone I know well which is inconsistent with how I think of them. Sometimes it’s unsettling or upsetting. Often it is perplexing.

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It Depends: Why the right fundraising strategy for your startup is never a straight answer.

This is going to be BIG.

Talk to ten founders and ten different VCs and you’ll get roughly about 600 different suggestions as to how you should go about your fundraising strategy. I don’t know what the formula is here, but the numbers and the resulting amount of confusion gets big very very quickly. Why does it seem like there’s an exception to every rule? You’re told that you can’t raise until you have a product, yet pre-product companies get funded all the time.

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Tips for developing strong brands

NZ Entrepreneur

Protecting intellectual property rights through registration is an important element of any business strategy. New Zealanders have traditionally favoured a non-regulated approach—#8 wire, Kiwi ingenuity and innovative thinking drive our cultural identity. But the value of a robust intellectual property portfolio hasn’t always been on the radar for New Zealand businesses.

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How To Tackle Cybersecurity Complacency In Your Organization

YFS Magazine

Study shows complacency when it comes to cybersecurity, thereby resulting in very poor attitudes towards data protection.

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Female Start-Ups Changing the World in 2020

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Female leaders make a strong mark wherever they are whether it’s as female leaders in New Zealand and Finland or like current US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. In the world of entrepreneurship, women especially make their mark as innovative thinkers and in their ability to conceptualise groundbreaking solutions to dynamic problems. Many venture capitalists are finally starting to pay attention to what one VC Jennifer Neundorfer very fairly describes as, “An underlooked asset class that is ov

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SEC Expands “Accredited Investor” Definition

Scott Edward Walker

This past Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments expanding the definition of “accredited investor” to include individuals who hold certain professional certifications/licenses or have certain “credentials,” as determined by the SEC. As the SEC press release provides: “For the first time, individuals will be permitted to participate in our private capital markets not only based on their income or net worth, but also based on established, clear measures of fi

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10 Excel Templates to Help You Manage Your Budget

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you need help adhering to your budget each month, an Excel monthly budget template can be your most helpful ally. Regardless if you’re tracking monthly expenses or creating monthly budget projections for your business, you’d be delighted to know there’s no shortage of budget-related Excel templates you can use. Below are 10 of the most helpful Excel templates you can use to make monthly personal and business budgeting easy and straightforward: 1.