Wed.Dec 26, 2018

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10 Questions To Test Your Aptitude As An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Currently there is no professional certification, or standardized testing, as there is for accountants and lawyers, to see if you are ready to tackle the rigors of starting a new business. In fact, some pundits argue that the best entrepreneurs, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, actually dropped out of school early to start their businesses, implying a negative relationship to training.

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7 Tips For Planning A Successful Marketing Event

YoungUpstarts

Planning a marketing event can be stressful, even more so if things do not turn out right. You might have booked a venue and set a date, but you are not sure if your target audience will show up. Perhaps you are also worried about whether people will enjoy themselves. If you want to ensure your marketing event is a success, here are a few tips to start you off in the right direction. 1.

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Are You Remarkable In An Ordinary Industry?

YFS Magazine

Is there anything about you or your business that’s remarkable? Sure, I know you’re smart and capable. But I’m talking here about something different.

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Make Your Brand A Wallflower: Why Social Media Demands You Step Back

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Lund , CEO of T3 Custom and author of “ Conversation Marketing: How to Be Relevant and Engage Your Customer by Speaking Human “ . I have a challenge for you. Write a short blog post that solves a problem in your industry but doesn’t mention your company or product. Not even one time. Sound hard? Try doing it every day for a month.

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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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4 Quotes From Successful Small Business Founders

Up and Running

Bruce Carr, left, of Web Ninja. Are you ready to start your business this year? Sometimes it can help to hear from small business founders who were able to breathe life into their business idea and make it go. These four founders shared their success stories with our LivePlan team over the past year. Here’s a little insight into what helped them take their businesses from an idea on a napkin to a reality.

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Founder Interview: Jeff Kubas from Vertex Resource Group

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we talked to Mr. Jeff Kubas. Jeff is the Founder and CEO of Vertex Resource Group. He has some insights on staffing your company and thoughts on how to make your company successful. Here is more of his story: TSM: Describe your product/service in 10 words or less: Jeff: We match the right people with our clients in order to create long lasting relationships.

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How to Choose the Best Office Space for Your Startup?

The Startup Magazine

Starting a new business is an exciting journey. You have finally decided to take the initiative and invest in your dreams. You have put together the perfect business plan, received the necessary funding to start, now all you need is the perfect office space for your new business. Unfortunately, this can be easier said than done, but with the following tips you will be able to choose an office space that not only fits your business but helps your business to success.

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Opportunity Amid Volatility

Haystack

It’s an unusual time in the markets. With high levels of public market volatility — the first we’ve seen in the age of social media and true real-time information — it feels like everyone and their grandmom is expecting a downturn. “We’re in the nth year of an unbelievable bull market!” “Most of the country doesn’t have any savings!

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Easy Ways for Startups to Avoid Data Breaches

The Startup Magazine

Cybercrime has steadily been on the rise for nearly two decades. As prominent security companies continue to step up their game, seasoned cybercriminals consistently find ways to get around their roadblocks. With hackers and information thieves seemingly lurking around every corner of the web, it’s imperative for startups to secure their data. Source: Pexels.

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Do You Search For Your Name When You Join a New Slack Group?

Hunter Walker

Slackenfreude – the joy in knowing that as a Slack group grows, the likelihood of a new member searching their name and finding they’ve been slagged on in earlier conversations reaches 99.9%. There’s increasing punditry consensus that “small group” products will be one of the beneficiaries of the backlash to public, scale social media.

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How To Develop The Entrepreneur Spirit

The Startup Magazine

Over the last few decades, we’ve heard about those remarkable entrepreneurs that took an idea and turned it into a very profitable business. Often, it appears that the typical entrepreneur possesses qualities that drove them to success. Therefore, it is safe to say that anyone thinking about starting their own business enterprise should take a look at a successful entrepreneur’s road to success and try to duplicate some of their qualities and characteristics.

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Enhance Your Sales: 9 ways to implement email marketing into your real estate business

Our Own Start-up

Email marketing can be useful to the Real Estate Business because of those who constantly browse homes on the web, but are not yet ready to purchase.

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The Top 5 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2018

Duct Tape Marketing

The Top 5 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2018 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In 2018, I had the opportunity to speak with an amazing group of guests on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. As the year draws to a close, I wanted to take a look back and share with you the five interviews with the highest number of downloads for the year.

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Truth and Politics

Reid Hoffman

Read the full post on Medium.

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Jobs, Bezos, Gates, Branson. Inside the Brains of the CEOs

The Startup Magazine

Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Richard Branson — these visionary CEOs not only shore up bottom lines, but they usher in revolutions. So, what exactly is going on in their heads? How do CEOs think about the day-to-day success of their businesses, as well as the broader impact they hope to have on society? To understand, we’ve compiled the most common characteristics shared by CEOs, plus key advice from some of the most outstanding leaders.

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It Could Be Worse: 10 Thoughts on the Economy

Babbling VC

Somehow, during the span of my career, I've had multiple groundhog day type occurrences. I feel we are in the midst of one right now. My first occasion was the bubble bursting after the turn of the century. Then we had the 2008 financial crisis. Now, we have what I'll call the Trump crisis and unfortunately, there will be more before I am done as the cycles are accelerating. .

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Truth and Politics

Reid Hoffman

A series of articles in the New York Times describes an alleged operation to spread misinformation during the 2017 Alabama Senate race. Because I’m referenced in these articles, I want to address them. The most disturbing aspect of this coverage is its description of how fake Twitter accounts with Russian-sounding names were created to follow Roy Moore, in what the Times suggested was either an experiment or a deliberate “false flag” attempt to discredit Moore.