Thu.Aug 20, 2020

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4 Benefits Of Using Payroll Management Software For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Payroll processing can be difficult, and financing usually becomes harder as the number of workers in a company gets bigger. This may lead to sour employee’s morale, delay of payments, and more tasks for your finance department. However, a good application development team can offer you suggestions about payroll management and human resource procedures (HR).

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

I’ve long been an advocate of using Lean Startup principles to advance non-profits and philanthropic organizations, whose work is so urgently needed at this moment in history. As in many areas of the crisis, I have seen a number of new organizations founded to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in the wake of COVID-19. SF New Deal and Frontline Foods were early leaders.

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5 Important Factors to Consider When Starting an eCommerce Company

The Startup Magazine

According to research, around 80-90% of all ecommerce businesses fail within the first 120 days of opening their doors. This is because competing within the digital sphere is often a lot more challenging than entrepreneurs expect, especially considering how easy it is to set up a business of this nature. If you intend to spearhead a new ecommerce company and are determined to get it on the right track for success, there are a few important factors to consider before taking the plunge.

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New Normal: A conversation with Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes up.

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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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How to Start a Personal Injury Law Firm

The Startup Magazine

Many legal experts reach a point in their career where they want to step out and start their own practice. Running a law firm is a challenging and rewarding experience. It can also be highly lucrative. Demand for personal injury attorneys is set to continue growing , making it an ideal specialization. That said, you need to be aware of the operational complexities that come with getting a business off the ground.

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How To Use Building Site Banners As Your Marketing Materials

YoungUpstarts

We’ve all seen a building getting constructed somewhere. It could be in your neighborhood or somewhere around town. The increasing number of building constructions going on around might leave you asking what these buildings are. ‘Could this one be a new mall? Is that one an apartment?’ These lingering questions are answered by building site banners – those tarpaulins and huge posters installed in billboards or fenced around the site.

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3 Signs You’re Ready To Start A Business

YoungUpstarts

You consider yourself a leader, a logical thinker, and a person with a natural flair for both strategy and forging meaningful connections with others. You are an entrepreneur at heart, and you have a great idea in mind that you are keen to see flourish. The question is, are you truly ready to take the leap of faith and start a business of your very own?

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Major Marketing Mistakes in the Age of COVID-19

The Startup Magazine

Unfortunately, COVID-19 did not go away. In fact, America’s infection rates are skyrocketing, and many states are reconsidering their efforts to open up. Businesses everywhere are restricting their hours, their customers and even closing up for the foreseeable future, in the hopes that the U.S. can regain control of the virus and return to normal sooner rather than later.

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Four Tools Every Business Leader Needs To Raise Their Personal Profile

YoungUpstarts

by Victoria Usher, CEO & Founder of GingerMay. In the current climate, business leaders and entrepreneurs are inevitably focussed on their companies and projects, and in building resilience to ensure a strong position for the recovery bounce. But alongside these efforts they mustn’t neglect their own personal brand or profile. The reputation of a business is intrinsically linked with the actions of its leaders, so individuals that are perceived as insightful influencers or strong thought lea

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Top 3 ways manufacturing workers can get hurt on the job

The Startup Magazine

Work in the manufacturing industry can be strenuous and dangerous as it involves working with hazardous materials, heavy equipment, and dangerous machines. Employers and employees need to take necessary precautions to protect themselves in manufacturing jobs otherwise it will be difficult to stay safe. Not only are manufacturing workers around dangerous machinery; the job also involves repetitive movements with the heavy lifting that can cause a mess in their bodies.

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Don’t Be Evil? – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

Don’t be evil…? To your shareholders, at least. You may have noticed on the homepages of Google and YouTube this week an announcement claiming that the way you search on Google and use YouTube is at risk. The number of alarmed people who forwarded it to me was astounding. If anything, it highlights the importance of Google’s services to our daily lives, how much people love the products, but above all, how powerful Google actually is.

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7 Ways to Generate Unique Web App Ideas for Your Startup to Consider

ReadWriteStart

Execution of an idea is easier than generating the one. The idea will remain the same for web app idea creation and implementation. If you are a startup , then it is important for you to introduce web applications with a unique idea or less popular concepts. Companies are exploring all possible horizons to introduce new solutions almost every day. It seems quite challenging to stay competitive by launching a unique idea when a high competition out there.

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A million things can kill the deal.

Berkonomics

So, you’ve found the buyer, received a letter of interest, signed it, and exclusively tied your company up for a period to complete the deal. Everyone on the board is anxious to close this. You’ve committed time to do whatever is needed. You’ve informed your top management of the pending but still secret deal and they know they will be impacted and are a bit skittish.

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Top five revenue growth KPI’s for selling in a tight economy

NZ Entrepreneur

With the tighter economy, you might just be taking a closer look at your sales pipeline. A healthy sales pipeline delivers a constant flow of potential business opportunities, and is a direct result of consistent, disciplined sales actions from everyone on your team. It is much easier to sell in a buoyant economy with high levels of customer enquiry and an abundance of buyer confidence.

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Small Ways Your Business Can Save the Environment

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Deciding to implement green practices in your business is good for both your business and the environment. Going green can attract the millennials workforce, save you money, and give you advantages over competitors. While green efforts like using solar panels can be costly, there are small ways your business can save the environment, too. LED Lights.

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Startup CEO Second Edition Teaser: Transition and Integration

OnlyOnce

As part of the new section on Exits in the Second Edition of the book ( order here ), there’s a specific chapter around handling the post-sale transition and integration process. No two transitions are exactly the same. If the buyer is a financial sponsor, you may have the same job the day after the deal closes that you had the day before, just with a new owner and new rules for you.

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How to Combat Employee Theft in Today’s Workplace

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Today’s current climate has forced us to adapt to a new normal, and for most of us, our offices are now located in the comfort of our own homes. It’s hard to imagine how something like employee theft can happen when companies are working remotely, but some of the most common acts of theft can take place from practically anywhere. Businesses lose a great deal of money to these crimes, averaging around a 5% revenue loss per year.

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The Power of Ritual with YouTube and Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra

Reid Hoffman

The word ritual probably doesn’t conjure images of board meetings or product reviews. But effective business leaders create rituals for their organizations that can focus, clarify, and inspire. In the latest Masters of Scale episode , I discuss the power of ritual with Shishir Mehrotra, who tapped the power of rituals to grow YouTube, and now runs Coda.io, which can actually help you codify and share your organization’s rituals.

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5 Things You Need to Know Before Choosing a Data-Driven Technology

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Every business owner regardless of proficiency in technology, wishes to conclude a profitable business. And for this purpose, they are highly dependent on accurately procured data sets. Most of these data sets include customer and market information such as market share expectancy, demand for a certain product or service, etc. Evidently, the complete process of making decisions based on data are driven by the accuracy of the same.

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Myths About Failure

Reid Hoffman

“Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down.”. The reason I like using this metaphor is because it makes it very clear that the default outcome for almost any startup is failure. The challenge for an entrepreneur is to get the company from default dead (falling) to default alive, with revenues that more than cover operating costs (flying).

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21 Tips To Avoid A Small Business Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

Running a small business is a tedious affair. There are many cash transactions and unplanned expenses. The fear of an audit of your tax return may mount every time you read about the annual tax audit statistics. Although the overall IRS audit rate has significantly dropped this year, this is not a guarantee that your business is excused from the prying eyes of an auditor.

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The (Lost) Art of the Introduction

Austin Startup

Chris Palmisano , COO of Rocket Dolla r and Marc Nathan , VP of Client Strategy of Egan Nelson Both of us are connectors. We love connecting with people in the real and virtual worlds. During this pandemic, it’s all the virtual world. We both take pride in connecting others, so we can all benefit. It’s a way of putting “good” out in the community and it can have a major impact.

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TikTok vs Instagram: Which One Is Better For Startups To Grow?

YoungUpstarts

Have you ever considered prioritizing social media platforms for your small business ? Many startups are trying to find out which social media platform works better in their marketing strategies. Of course, you must have been familiar with top social media platforms. But the question is what the difference between them is. For example, TikTok and Instagram are two multimedia-based platforms that are so popular among people.

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Building Forecasts from the Bottom Up

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Once revenues start rolling in, entrepreneurs have nothing to worry about. Right? After all, the market has verified that their business model is sound. What could possibly go wrong? Well, actually, many things can go wrong. One of my late father’s favorite sayings was, “The single biggest cause of business failure is success.” Entrepreneurs who […].

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DIY Advanced Link Building Techniques to Implement During the Coronavirus Outbreak

The Startup Magazine

There’s no doubting that Coronavirus has had a wide reaching effect on all areas of industry. The online world is no different, with businesses finding themselves inundated with new information, day after day. This new information makes reactive digital marketing in the usual way a difficult thing to do, even for experts. Image Source. With the repercussions of this terrible virus still resonating around the globe, we thought we would help out the businesses struggling to maintain the digital de