Mon.Aug 06, 2018

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How To Choose The Best Forex Platform

YoungUpstarts

The Forex Market is the largest financial market with a turnover of over 3 trillion dollars in any given day. Going with the best forex platform, for forex trading, is of utmost importance if one is to have a precise balance between the high risks and rewards on offer, in the trillion-dollar marketplace. A forex platform is a software suite that allows one to access and interact with the market.

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Seven Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Website

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s a given by this point that your business should have a website. Establishing a presence on the web was probably one of the first things you set up, after your logo and branding strategy. But is your website as effective as it could be? And is it helping or hindering your business? As we wrote recently , If your website isn’t well-designed, quick-to-load, and easy-to-navigate, you’re sabotaging your brand’s valuable online presence.

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Improving Employee Retention To Build A Strong Team

YoungUpstarts

by Ben Hoffman, co-founder of CityHUNT. Do you pay attention to your employee retention rate and whether your top employees are happy? There’s more to a successful business than making top dollar and having satisfied clients. It’s also important for your staff to enjoy their job and remain loyal to the company. If your employees are unhappy and continue to hand in their resignation, it makes it challenging to keep the business moving forward.

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7 Ways To Demonstrate Leadership In A Business Crisis

Startup Professionals Musings

When the business is struggling, most business owners I know feel like anything but a leader. They start second-guessing their own vision, and are prone to making snap decisions suggested by someone else, in lieu of their carefully crafted processes and metrics. Entrepreneurs who can keep their cool under fire are the long-term winners I look for as an experienced angel investor.

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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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3 Ways To Increase Your Google Ranking

YoungUpstarts

by Adam Witty, Founder and CEO of Advantage | ForbesBooks and author of “ Authority Marketing: How to Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant “. Climbing the ranks on Google doesn’t have to be this mercurial thing that only SEO gurus know how to manage. Upping your Google ranking is a lot easier than you think, when you follow these steps. 1.

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Finding the Right Space to Grow your Start Up

The Startup Magazine

We have spent the last few months developing a Start-Up Guide for Moving Offices to provide useful information and help companies avoid the many pitfalls associated with relocation. Finding and moving office is one of the many challenges a start-up will face. If not handled properly, the process can result in expensive mistakes which may be detrimental to the future of the business.

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Where Does Foundry Group Invest?

Feld Thoughts

Semil Shah recently wrote a post titled Investing Outside The Bay Area. In it, he talked about his own experience expanding his investment horizons beyond the bay area, but also mentioned some other folks, including us and USV, where he did a quick analysis of the location of our partner funds. From Semil’s post: “Another firm linked closely to USV — Foundry Group in Boulder — has also been investing with an eye for geographic diversity.

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6 Ways To Improve Business Communications

YoungUpstarts

You may have recently decided to start a business, or perhaps have been in operation for a few years now. As a result, you’re likely reading this because you’re seeking ways to improve your business. One of the focal points of every business is communication, so when looking for areas improve, you should definitely hone in on that department. Without it, it’s likely that your business will eventually collapse as so many things tend to go wrong when communication isn’t effectively aligned.

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Entrepreneur Benefits of Cryptocurrency in 2018

The Startup Magazine

Cryptocurrency has changed the way we invest our savings, raise capital, and perform transactions with decentralized digital cash. It is a once-in-a-lifetime creation that presented our lives with such a breakthrough, especially in financial technology. After several years since the existence of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, entrepreneurs are seeing the benefits of adopting blockchain technology in their dealings this 2018, as the use of cryptocurrency can give entrepreneurs advantages in

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The One Path That All Construction Startups Should Take

YoungUpstarts

There’s a world expanding every second that we breathe. We can be a part of this world, but we each need to find exactly where we fit in. The options are limitless, and there’s one major industry that’s continued to expand since the Greeks and Romans wrote the framework for our progressing societies. Consider what you can bring to modern building construction.

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Improve Marketing Impact with Efficient Promotional Products

The Startup Magazine

Each company tries its best to look for a profitable market for making larger profits. Business owners can’t just expect that people will come and buy their services without thinking about them. The idea of the worldwide market has expanded the odds of achieving the entire world market which can be exceptionally useful for any person who is running any type of business.

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When to be lean

The Equity Kicker

Ben Horowitz, founder of leading venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and a successful entrepreneur prior to that published a post over the weekend: The Case for the Fat Start-Up. In it he argues that lean thinking has been overdone and that startup CEOs should be more aggressive raising capital and investing in building value in their companies. His reasoning is that being number one in a market is the only thing that counts, and that it therefore makes sense to go all out to achieve that goal.

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Is The Remote Working Trend Real Or Just Hype?

YFS Magazine

The benefits of flexible work options are clear for both businesses and workers. And as more companies embrace these options, life gets better for everyone.

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Why Content Marketing is a Game Changer

The Startup Magazine

Content marketing is that ingenious way of attracting people to your site without seeming like that was your sole intention. Instead of talking about your brand and how it can work for your audience, you will be creating interesting and valuable content that will seek to solve the problems of your clientele without advertising what you do. They will find you trustworthy depending on the type of content you provide and in that sense, follow your brand where you will be at liberty to convert them

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What I Want NYC to Do About Uber

This is going to be BIG.

You may have heard that NYC is potentially going to cap the number of cars with Uber and similar services. On one side, Uber is adding more cars to already congested streets--and taxi medalians have been capped for years. On the other, you'll hear that Uber solves the transportation desert problem in NYC and also makes live easier for riders of color who are used to getting skipped over for rides.

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Do You Know Your Startup’s Corporate Identity

The Startup Magazine

A company is known by the way it presents itself to the public, partners and even competition. A corporate identity will define who the organization is, and what it does. Identity sets you apart from the competition. It makes you stand out from the crowd and this is what creates a preference for customers. An effective identity will make it easy for others to recognize you through design, actions and the mode of communication.

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3 Cost Saving Tips For First-Time Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

You’ve probably heard the saying, ‘It takes money to make money.’ While that is true, it doesn’t mean you need to spend a lot upfront to start a business.

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My phone homescreen: August 2018

Jeff Hilimire

Every so often I share my phone homescreen on this blog (here are some past homescreens.) I do this because I like to be able to reflect back and see what apps I once used, and also in the hopes that others would share their homescreens so I can see what I might be missing. So, please consider uploading a screenshot of your homepage in the comments, or just letting me know some your can’t-live-without apps!

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Can A Business Scale Without These 4 Tools?

YoungUpstarts

by Ralph Perdomo, research analyst at Nvoicepay. Scalability isn’t only about increasing profits with less input. It’s also about agility. It’s about a company’s ability to respond quickly to the demands of a changing market — or its ability to expand into new markets — and profit. Said another way, a company that scales is a company that remains successful for several years or even 124 years, like General Electric.

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