Mon.Dec 17, 2018

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Business Complexity Goes Up Dramatically As You Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the entrepreneurs I advise today are ready to declare success when they get that first surge of traction with a real customer. This is a good sign, but they have no idea that the hard work of scaling the business is still ahead of them. It’s a bit like the heady first days after you’ve fallen in love, when you can’t imagine anything will ever kill that passion or commitment.

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How to Come up with Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! It’s also part of our Bplans guide to coming up with a great idea. For some people, coming up with ideas is as easy as spotting chewing gum on the sidewalk. For others, it’s nearly impossible. For me, new idea generation isn’t just easy, it’s something I’m doing all the time and often without trying.

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Using Social Media To Grow Your Real Estate Business

YoungUpstarts

The real estate market has recently made a strong recovery and property prices are rocketing up with each passing day. This huge market attracts young men and women who want to join the workforce as real estate agents to tap into the market’s potential. In such a competitive world, it becomes increasingly important for you not to just keep up with the advancements in the field but also to stay ahead of your competitors.

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How To Choose A WordPress Theme For Your Business Website

YFS Magazine

There are thousands of WordPress themes on the market today. Here are 6 quick and dirty tips that’ll help you pick the right one for your website.

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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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A Startup’s Guide To Become A Successful Amazon Seller

YoungUpstarts

Amazon is the biggest marketplace in the world today. It is the best place for a startup to sell its products. You can sell any product on Amazon and your product can be sold to any customer in the world. It is the perfect avenue for success. Achieving success in Amazon is easy. The secret formula is time + skill + dedication. Many experts who have become established Amazon sellers collectively concur.

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From PTA to MBA: How Being a Parent Prepares You for an MBA — And Success as an Entrepreneur

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It’s one of the great debates of our time and has been for decades: how can one successfully balance both a career and parenthood? And while some might say that dealing with tiny humans all day doesn’t prepare you for the business world, especially if you want to earn an MBA or start a business, the fact is that parents are often exceedingly well-prepared for either path.

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Ten Books for Entrepreneurs Recommended by Austin Entrepreneurs

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News In two seasons of the Ideas to Invoices podcast, Silicon Hills News has interviewed dozens of highly successful Austin entrepreneurs and many of them recommended books on their podcasts. The following list contains some of their book recommendations to aspiring entrepreneurs. So, if you’re looking for a […].

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7 Tips To Steal The Show At Your Next Trade Fair

YoungUpstarts

Trade fairs can be great marketing events for generating new leads. The biggest obstacle is having to compete with the many other stalls at the event – many of which are likely to be similar businesses to yours. Here are seven tips that will help you to steal the show. 1. Invest in branding. Investing some money into creative branding will help your stall to stand out.

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The 10 Most-Read Articles of 2018

ConversionXL

As we wrap up 2018, we went back through everything we’ve published this year to find the 10 most-read articles. Here’s the list: 10. How to Get Started with Machine Learning and AI for Marketing. Artificial Intelligence is powerful and will open doors we don’t even know exist. But there are some steps you can take today to ensure that you’re making the most of this new capability and won’t be left behind. 9.

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How To Retain The Best Employees

YoungUpstarts

Keeping your best employees is critical to a business or company’s survival. Having them ensures consistent delivery of output, increased sales, higher customer satisfaction, and an overall engaged workforce. They are the company’s most tangible proof of a well-oiled organization. It is their greatest source of succession, knowledge, skills and training.

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Ramping Up For A March 2019 Marathon

Feld Thoughts

My running is going well so I’ve decided to do the Knoxville Marathon on 3/31/19. I’m putting a running team together for this, so if you are interested in being part of it, the only requirement is that you commit to doing the Knoxville Marathon. If you are interested, email me. 2018 was a tough running year for me. I was injured in the spring (calf injury) and then again in the summer through the fall (bone bruise).

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Pros And Cons Of Hiring Fresh Grads

YoungUpstarts

There are many different philosophies around how to effectively hire employees and who to hire. Many CEOs of huge companies embrace the idea of bringing in more than just talent. Richard Branson of the Virgin Group believes in the idea of hiring more for personality rather than skill or experience. Other CEOs follow a different rule. Apple founder, Steve Jobs, believes in bringing in talent that will move the company further rather than “yes” people.

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The Business of Food: Pleasure As a Substitute For Size

YFS Magazine

Portion control can make all of the difference in a restaurant's profitability. If you don’t keep portions in line with food costs, you'll lose money.

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Monday Motivation: UNLEASH YOUR INNER BEAST

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Your own worst enemy has always been you Don’t be scared to awake the inner beast in you Let any doubts fizzle The resilience you have is your inner beat, release it to the world.

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5 Smart Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Hire Veterans

YFS Magazine

Hiring and retaining great employees is not easy. Hiring veterans has many benefits – here's a look at 5 tangible reasons why you should.

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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CRYPTOCURRENCY

Transformify

Lots of people think about their cryptographic money wallet as only a digitized adaptation of a genuine wallet that is utilized for putting away assets. In any case, it doesn't store digital forms of money. Or maybe, it spares a couple of open and private keys that give access to one's assets. More or less, an open key is a string of alphanumeric characters that fills in as a location that others can use to send you cryptographic forms of money.