Wed.Aug 19, 2020

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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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New Normal: A conversation with Sue Fellows of Workfront

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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Do These 8 Things To Build A Successful Diverse Team

YoungUpstarts

by Hank Frecon, the chief executive officer of Source Digital. According to a report by McKinsey & Company, companies that commit themselves to diverse leadership are more successful. When you have a team made up of people from various backgrounds and experiences, you will get a mix of results that can benefit your company. There are numerous benefits of having a diverse team, but not everyone knows how to build a team of experts.

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Founder Interview: Jim Elliott – Volunteer to NonProfit Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

Occasionally here at The Startup Magazine we come across an entrepreneurial story that shows there is more to a startup than the quest to become the next billion dollar unicorn. More often than you think, an entrepreneur’s passion is for the care and concern for others less fortunate. And those entrepreneurs go beyond occasional giving of time and talent to a full application of their entrepreneurial skills building a scaled nonprofit organization with a huge social impact.

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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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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Create Effective Event Marketing Plans

Up and Running

For some businesses, gatherings are a crucial part of their operation. Those trying to do event marketing, specifically, have felt the toll of COVID-19. Now, as states gradually reopen , they’re still grappling with how to keep people safe when they don’t stay at home — especially when those reopenings concern larger gatherings and events. . Businesses of all sizes have had to cancel or postpone planned events, but the thousands of dollars in lost revenue have put smaller companies in a financi

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16 Entrepreneurs Explain Ways They Help Themselves Think differently

Hearpreneur

In today’s’ world there are a lot of disruptions that can easily drive you away from the goals or strategies you set. Have you ever found yourself doing something that is totally different from what you wanted? If yes, it means you need to change your way of thinking, be more disciplined, frequently remind yourselves on what you have to do and shift your perception towards life in general.

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Streaming Venture Funds

Eric Friedman

The state of venture is changing and AngelList has been at the forefront of this movement for awhile. The recent announcement of “ open ended funds ” got me thinking about the evolution of venture fund structures themselves. Software has been eating venture funds by simplifying syndicates, managing SPVs, and even traditional fund management. The devil is obviously in the details but after chatting recently with folks building these new “firms” I wanted to share my thoughts. .

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3-D Printed Home Builder ICON Lands $35 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

ICON, the Austin-based startup that builds homes with its giant 3-D printer using concrete as substrate, on Wednesday announced it has closed on $35 million in funding. Previously, the company raised $9 million in seed-stage funding. ICON is arguably one of Austin’s most innovative startups tackling big problems like building homes for the city’s homeless […].

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The Importance of Board Governance Training

Board Effect

Whether they have years of board experience or whether it’s their first board director position, all board members benefit from governance training. Board directors have many important responsibilities. Their work is never done. Organizations that train and educate their board directors make an important investment in their leadership and that has a direct bearing on the organization.

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Scale Your Business by Adding Systems

Duct Tape Marketing

Scale Your Business by Adding Systems written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Jenyns. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview David Jenyns author of SYSTEMology. After working in his own business ( Melbourne SEO & Video ) for more than 10 years and being trapped in the day-to-day operations, David Jenyns had his wake up call with the birth of his first son.

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Legitimate Reasons To Quit Your Job

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It can be nerve-wracking to think about having to leave your job, especially considering all the work you went through to get it in the first place. A time may come, however, when you encounter something that makes you rethink your position. Some of these things may be good, but some things you encounter could also be quite bad. Whatever the case, here are a few legitimate reasons for you to quit your job.

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How to Get Your SEO and PPC Teams on the Same Page

ConversionXL

You wouldn’t hire a brain surgeon to treat your heart condition. Different conditions require different specialists. It’s the same for search engine marketing. SEO has a role. PPC has a role. And, like holistic medicine, they work best when tightly integrated. Easier said than done. Too often, marketers find themselves managing multiple agencies or internal teams, each of which is trying to accomplish their goals.

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