Wed.Mar 27, 2019

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Preventing Stupid: 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask

YoungUpstarts

by Matthew Neill Davis, Esq., author of “ The Art of Preventing Stupid: How to Build a Stronger Business Strategy through Better Risk Management “ A recent Internet search for “problems in business” on Google produced 1.76 billion entries, often a list of the top 20 or 10. Rightly so, business leaders are obsessed with solving problems.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Favorite Songs to Get Them Motivated

Hearpreneur

Music can change your spirit. If you’re having a bad day and listen to your favorite song, it can change your entire mood. Music can also help you to get through difficult moments in life. One of the hardest things anyone can ever do is start and run a business. We knew that entrepreneurs have the best playlists and we decided to ask them their favourite tracks. #1-Break on Through to the Other Side.

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The Worst Ways To Build A New Brand On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

by Manish Dudharejia, President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc. Building up a reputation and presence as a new brand is difficult. However, there is a right way to do this and a wrong way. Unfortunately, many new businesses make quite a few mistakes as they start to build their brand on social media. These missteps could stand in the way of growth and success – both in the immediate future and a long way down the road.

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Denis Pombriant: Green New Deal is a tipping point

deal architect

Many of you may know Denis Pombriant as a CRM analyst. He is way deeper than that as his bio says "Denis Pombriant lives in the Boston area and writes about the enterprise software market. Denis specializes in disruptive innovation.

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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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6 Actions To Find The Perfect Angel For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Max Pixel Fundraising is brutal. Actually, according to Paul Graham of Y-Combinator fame, “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want.” More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. A while back, I outlined “ The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business ” for startups, listing angel investors as alternative six.

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Don’t Just Think Like A Startup, Execute Like One Too

YoungUpstarts

by Winson Wong, Head of Business Development for Connected Solutions. I’m sure you hear a lot of people in corporate talk about design thinking, user-centric design, innovate like a startup in order to move faster and challenge the status quo. You attend conferences, visit startups and read books. This is all great but at the end of the day, how do you execute like a startup within a big company?

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Is New York A Tort State?

YoungUpstarts

There are many different types of law, all of which are aimed at creating a safe and legal atmosphere for all. In order to achieve these goals, it helps to categorize different types of wrongdoing and the best ways to both address and rectify them. In New York State, tort law helps the legal system determine the types of wrongdoing that have occurred and how best to remedy them.

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The Power of Company Core Values

The Startup Magazine

Explore the benefits of company core values, as well as the ways in which business leaders can further integrate already-existing values into their organizations. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels. Core values represent a company’s heart. While some organizations understand their core values intimately, others struggle to put them into practice. No matter what a company’s relationship to their core values looks like, leaders can always work to improve their understanding and utilization of this

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6 SEO Techniques To Improve Your Website Ranking in 2019

YFS Magazine

Many businesses struggle to improve their website’s ranking on Google. Here's a look at SEO techniques that will generate quality leads and organic traffic.

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Tips And Trends: Things All Business Owners Must Know

The Startup Magazine

Whether you are a new business owner or a long-time entrepreneur, keeping yourself up-to-date on the latest shifts in business and the rising trends in your niche is an essential aspect for running a successful business. There are numerous business tips to consider as a startup. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash. The recent years have been collectively challenging for all business owners: the threat of Brexit, battling nations, world oil price hikes, and fluctuating economies.

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How To Become The Chief Listening Officer Your Company Needs

YFS Magazine

Communication is the key to business success and leadership. Unfortunately, few CEOs think about how to hear ideas from their team.

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Techstars Startup Weekend New York – Financial Inclusion

Feld Thoughts

If you are New York-based and interested in entrepreneurship around financial services, consider participating in Techstars Startup Weekend New York: Financial Inclusion on April 5th to April 7th at Rise on 23rd Street. When Startup Weekend first began in 2007 , it was primarily based on geography. Today, a number of Startup Weekends have a specific theme.

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How to Differentiate Your Startup in a Red Ocean Industry

ReadWriteStart

We all dream of coming up with the next ingenious idea that redefines an industry, or creates one from scratch. Netflix opened the floodgates to the world of streaming content, and they benefited enormously from being the only players in town (at least, for a few years). Uber capitalized on an existing need–transportation–but provided a fast, convenient, and cheap service that essentially created the new industry of ride-sharing.

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Research + Experimentation = GROWTH!

ConversionXL

How do you achieve growth through conversion optimization? You need high-quality research and experimentation. In this episode, Peep discusses why research is critical to understand the problems on the website and why you need to develop multiple hypotheses in order to find the right solution. [This post contains video, click to play]. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel.

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Cloudsnap Raises $1.75 Million

SiliconHills

Colin Loretz founded Cloudsnap, an integration startup that connects web apps in 2011, and participated in the TechStars Cloud’s inaugural class in San Antonio. That company, which moved to Reno, Nevada, eventually failed. But now an Austin-based startup has taken on the name, Cloudsnap and it is doing something similar to the original Cloudsnap. It […].

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How Video Can Bring More Qualified Leads to Your Law Firm

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When searching for an attorney, one of the main features a prospective client is looking for is the free consultation. Clients are looking to not only have their questions answered, but also obtain a more realistic idea of how much the service will cost, and get a feel for if they trust the attorney they might be working with. There is nothing but benefits in a free consultation for the client.

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Why Your Marketing Must Be Led By Strategy First

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Your Marketing Must Be Led By Strategy First written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Strategy First Marketing. A lot of people use the term “marketing strategy,” when what they’re really talking about is marketing tactics. Strategy is not just a Facebook post or a paid search campaign or blog posts.

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San Antonio-based FunnelAI Raises $1.5 Million

SiliconHills

FunnelAI, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate leads for car dealers, announced Wednesday that it has raised a $1.5 million seed round of financing. The San Antonio-based startup previously raised $375,000 in pre-seed stage funding and participated in the RealCo Accelerator, based at Geekdom. San Antonio-based Active Capital, which last month announced it […].

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Introducing the Dignity Museum

Jeff Hilimire

(Left to right) Me, my son, and Terence inside the Dignity Museum. This past weekend I was honored to participate in the launch of the Dignity Museum , a project by Terence Lester ‘s amazing organization, Love Beyond Walls. The Dignity Museum is a traveling museum that shares the stories of those who are forgotten – our brothers and sisters who are experiencing homelessness and poverty.

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Will “Rapid Demonetization” Kill Your Business?

Growthink Blog

Have you heard of renowned futurist Peter Diamandis? Or what he describes as “rapid demonetization?” If not, you need to, as we now have many examples of businesses getting killed by it, like: Videoconferencing – today available for free via a wide number of mobile apps (Skype, WhatsApp, Hangouts, etc.), but was sold in 1982 by […]. The post Will “Rapid Demonetization” Kill Your Business?

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

“Innovation is widely regarded as the single most important ingredient in today’s economy ,” according to entrepreneur Faisal Hoque at Fast Company. Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. Innovation has changed the way people live, work and do business. Businesses can focus on two types of innovation: sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation.

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Will “Rapid Demonetization” Kill Your Business?

Growthink Blog

Have you heard of renowned futurist Peter Diamandis? Or what he describes as “rapid demonetization?” If not, you need to, as we now have many examples of businesses getting killed by it, like: Videoconferencing – today available for free via a wide number of mobile apps (Skype, WhatsApp, Hangouts, etc.), but was sold in 1982 by […]. The post Will “Rapid Demonetization” Kill Your Business?

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What College and University Boards Risk by Using Insecure File-Sharing Apps

Board Effect

Discussions and debates take up the majority of a college or university board’s time. Outside of board meeting time, board directors are working on all the issues that they discussed during the meeting. Committees may be deeply involved in the board’s work. Much of the board’s work requires doing research and sharing files and documents with other members of the board.

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How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Will Affect Your Small Business

Up and Running

It’s no secret that operating a small business is hard work. You devote tons of time and energy to making smart decisions, driving profits, and doing your best to keep your taxes low. Now that tax season is just around the corner you’re probably wondering (or outright worrying!) about how the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act , which took effect in 2018, will affect your tax picture this year and beyond.