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Digital Leadership During Global Upheaval

The Startup Magazine

There’s one thing that has seen massive growth during the time of the pandemic, and that’s the adoption of technology. From schools using Zoom to deliver classes to workers opting to work from home to do their part to flatten the curve, digital adoption is moving forward in a big way. Tech is responsible for significant portions of our day-to-day infrastructure.

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Keeping A List, Maybe Two

View from Seed

There are many traits and habits that successful entrepreneurs, especially repeat ones, display. Most of them are correlated to, but don’t directly cause success. And so they’re typically not necessary, nor sufficient conditions, to being or even becoming an exceptional Founder. Many common ones are public: charismatic leadership, having a sales-oriented approach, or being strategic about delegating.

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How Smart Businesses Choose the Best Translation Management Systems

The Startup Magazine

The growth of the digital domain is making the world a smaller place. As a result, it’s more important than ever for businesses to create localized content, whether web pages, emails, or articles. For companies that manage a large amount of content, a translation management system is essential. More than likely, there’s no translation management system (TMS) that’s perfect for your company.

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Book: Portrait of Resilience

Feld Thoughts

Daniel Jackson created a magnificent book. It’s a combination of three things: 1) Extraordinary personal stories about 2) The struggle with mental health, anxiety, and depression while 3) at MIT. MIT is a foundational part of my life. I spent seven years there. I got into graduate school in my fourth year and got into a Ph.D. program in my fifth year.

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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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Saving To Help With Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

If you aspire to be a small business owner, but lack the cash necessary to realise your idea, then you might turn to several different means of funding. You might look to friends or family members to lend you the money, or to high-street or online lenders. You might re-mortgage your house. For many would-be entrepreneurs, however, the safest way of finding the money is to save it, little by little, over the course of months and years.

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Killer Tips to Keep Your Startup Team Motivated

ReadWriteStart

If you are running a startup, there is a good chance that you may have hired a few employees. For these employees, you would be able to provide opportunities and experiences that will shape their future. It would not be wrong to say that there’s a dark side to startups since even the owner of a business does not know what the future holds. Hence, working for a startup business can be overwhelming and frightening at the same time.

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Trashbots Raises Seed-Stage Investment as Demand for its K-12 Robotics Platform Increases

SiliconHills

The pandemic has spurred demand for Trashbots, which makes a hands-on robotics platform aimed at the K-12 market. “The K-12 market, as a whole, is more important now than ever,” said Rohit Srinivasan, Co-Founder of Trashbots. “Especially as schools are trying to figure out how they are going to teach in a post COVID world.” […]. The post Trashbots Raises Seed-Stage Investment as Demand for its K-12 Robotics Platform Increases appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startups & Legal Concerns- How Businesses Can Be Prepared For The Worst

The Startup Magazine

While starting up your dream venture is a wonderful proposition, things can be very different when you actually take the plunge. Needless to say, you will have to toil day and night during the early years, just to sustain rather than see booming profits. Additionally, there will be several challenges and threats down the line. The biggest ones relate to legal disasters because their implications can be more serious than just financial losses.

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How to Use PR to Build Credibility for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Use PR to Build Credibility for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Gloria Chou. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Gloria Chou, former TV producer and U.S. Diplomat, and founder of Gloria Chou PR. Gloria has spent her entire career using various media to tell stories that create opportunity and impact.

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Entrepreneur Finance Advice: Top 5 Monthly Dividend Stocks

The Startup Magazine

To make the most out of your future investments, it’s important to understand what monthly dividends are. As opposed to other dividends that are distributed on a quarterly or semi-annual basis, monthly dividends are paid out to shareholders each month. This type of dividend payout comes with several benefits for investors, including a higher yield, the ability to compound dividends faster, and having timely income to use for living expenses.

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How to Use Employee Incentives to Help Your Business Succeed

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you’ve got your own business, it can sometimes feel like you need to do everything yourself, especially if you started the business on your own. However, you can’t forget about how important your team is to your business’s success. A happy team is a successful team, but a happy team doesn’t just happen overnight. You’ll need to put some work in to show your employees that their work is valued.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. The class is joint listed in Stanford’s International Policy department as well as in the Engineering School, in the department of Management Science and Engineering. — Why This Course?

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The Different Ways E-mail Marketing Benefits Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

So, you followed your dream and became an entrepreneur—now you’re ready to start marketing. But there are so many options; where do you start? We’re glad you asked. Obviously, we live in a digital world nowadays, so it’s not surprising that digital marketing is where the results are. That said, there are still several facets of digital marketing to consider, but we’re going to focus on just one of them.

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Shareholders and founders: The muted thrill of the deal closing.

Berkonomics

Now you have worked for months to get this deal to the closing, anticipating the wire transfers to the shareholders that will come any minute. This could change your lifestyle and give you that much needed pause in your life you have been looking forward to. How it happens today. All the documents were signed in a rolling series of emailed scanned or DocuSign signature pages during the past week or more, with each party signing their own set, never having to be in the same room to sign the sin

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