Sat.Jun 01, 2019

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. The principles outlined in this framework can help prevent your startup from joining the vast majority who have landed on the entrepreneurial scrap heap.

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6 Signs It’s Time to Give Your Website a Facelift

The Startup Magazine

In today’s competitive and constantly evolving business climate, a strong web presence is crucial. Your website is one of the most reliable, effective and future-proof marketing assets you can have. It should be set up to make access to information simple and immediate. A well-constructed website design that is easy to navigate and engages potential customers ensures you give a wonderful first impression.

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[Interview] Zack Creed, Oakville Golf Instructor On Entrepreneurship, Career Transitions

YoungUpstarts

Oakville’s Zack Creed would say golf was in his blood. After captaining his high school team in New Jersey, he studied Professional Golf Management (PGM) and recreation management at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). As a student, he honed his skills through a number of internships at some of the finest courses in the US. After graduation, Zachary Creed worked at Crooked Stick Golf Club as an Assistant Golf Professional, where he was alternatively Tournament Director and head of the La

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7 Messages All New Entrepreneurs Should Take To Heart

Startup Professionals Musings

When you have been on the startup firing line, you quickly learn that any insight from experts and entrepreneurs who have been there before you can make the difference between failure and success. Yet, many new entrepreneurs brazenly assume they are bulletproof, and march blindly into the fray. The result is that half or more of startups fail in the first two years.

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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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Reputation Repair: On Mitigating The Impact Of Wrongful Dismissal In Canada

YoungUpstarts

One of the most commonly misunderstood concepts when getting terminated from a job in Canada is the term “wrongful dismissal”. Most people automatically assume that this means that there were no grounds for termination and that you were illegally terminated based on the Employment Standards Act, ESA. The law is quite specific as to what constitutes legal dismissal in Canada, but wrongful dismissal is actually based on something altogether different.

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4 simple ways to spread the word about your startup

The Startup Magazine

Starting a business can be simultaneously one of the most enthralling and intimidating things that you ever do. After all, on one hand, you’re actually making the move to realise what may be a long-held dream of running your own business… but on the other hand, you also have so many challenges before you. Not least among those challenges is effectively promoting your new company with smart startup marketing.

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7 Smart Ways to Improve Your Website’s First Impression

YFS Magazine

A brave, bold and well-executed business website is a breath of fresh air. Here’s a look at 7 actionable tips to get you there.

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Don’t Go Anywhere Without A Business Card For These 4 Reasons

YoungUpstarts

In some ways, business cards are just like umbrellas: You never seem to have one when you need it! Whether it’s one of many tech meetups across the U.S. , a colleague’s dinner party, or simply bumping into an old school friend in the street, business cards are the perfect first step to establish communication and let you be incredibly suave while doing so.

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The Importance of Appearance for Brick and Mortar Businesses

The Startup Magazine

These days, many people prefer to do their shopping online. Between 2017 and 2018, e-commerce sales jumped by an impressive 15%. Brick and mortar stores, on the other hand, only grew by 3.7%. The unfortunate fact is that there’s a decreasing demand from consumers to buy from a storefront. After all, shopping on the Internet is quick, easy, and you can do it in your pajamas.

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Everything You Need To Know About Professional Translation Services

YFS Magazine

If you're planning to expand your business into foreign markets, professional translation services will become an essential resource and marketing tool.

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5 common financial mistakes all start-ups make and how to avoid them

Our Own Start-up

Because of lack of experience or financial knowledge, every entrepreneur is bound to make some initial and crucial financial errors.

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Weekend Favs June 1

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs June 1 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Six life changing books you need to read this year

Our Own Start-up

Reading books is the easiest and most effective way to expand your knowledge about various topics.

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Pitfalls To Avoid When Buying Business Insurance

YoungUpstarts

The consequences of choosing an insurance policy for your business that is not all-encompassing can vary from a small budget problem to more severe money hemorrhaging down the line. Avoid future issues by learning from other’s mistakes to ensure your company does not meet the same setbacks resulting from not having enough coverage, or overspending on unnecessary insurance coverage.

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Three drawbacks of entrepreneurship as a career choice

Our Own Start-up

Drawbacks which you need to take into consideration before planning to become an entrepreneur.