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Generation Agile: 10 Tips How To Lead Effectively A Newly Outsourced Development Team

YoungUpstarts

In our market today, successful teams are those that adapt, grow, and thrive in the rapidly changing tech scape. Consumer demands are evolving, technology is growing bolder, and industry leaders are adapting. Agile, as the name suggests, is modeled with adaptability in mind. Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects.

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How to make your small business safe from hackers

The Startup Magazine

We live in a world where modern technology is essential for businesses. Who doesn’t like digital marketing or cloud computing? However, this environment also poses a lot of dangers that can ruin your startup. That’s why small business cybersecurity is so important to keep in mind. Photo by Nahel Abdul Hadi on Unsplash. Data breaches and ransomware attacks are a growing concern among all companies nowadays.

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How To Change The Course Of Your Business Gracefully

Startup Professionals Musings

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. You can count on it and plan for it, or you wait for the next survival crisis brought your way by this rapidly changing world. You can even give it a more elegant name, like “market-focused reinvention,” but it won’t be graceful if you don’t take the lead.

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5 Things to Know About Revenue Management

The Startup Magazine

Airline customers look for the best deals while the company looks to reward its most loyal customers. With heavy global competition between airlines and customers having online alternatives at their fingertips, airlines face challenges of constantly updating pricing, which can make airline revenue management complex and optimizing revenue a major challenge across industries.

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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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Quickly Unpacking Google’s Acquisition Of Fitbit

Haystack

Usually these M&A posts involve a private startup being purchased, but this past week, we witnessed a different type of deal — Google acquired Fitbit, which had been a public company for nearly four years. Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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13 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Technologies They Most Look Forward To

Hearpreneur

It’s amazing how new technology keeps coming up. As a business owner, you have to keep up with these technological improvements and perhaps adopt some to improve on efficiency. They help improve productivity of your team and automating processes in your business. It also saves you valuable time and helps keep track of activities happening around you.

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Fundraising 101: Words of Wisdom from Aaron Harris

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week or two, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Aaron Harris , a partner at Y Combinator. In this interesting interview from a couple of months ago, Aaron shares some solid advice for founders with respect to fundraising, including the following: “The mistake that a lot of founders make is that they

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Building Your Own Business Premises? Things to Consider

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Business is all about profit, and once you reach a stage where profits are being generated regularly, it’s time to consider where you can make upgrades and changes. The aim is to futureproof your venture while increasing your profits further- and when you rent an office, every month that you pay your rent, this is coming out of your earnings. When you buy your own, you’re investing in something that you own, which massively improves your financial position.

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Eran Eyal Explains Why People are Switching to Online Shopping

The Startup Magazine

Just 10% of all shopping dollars are spent online, leaving online retailers with a huge opportunity to grow sales, particularly in the grocery segment, where just 3% of sales are made online. Much of the heavy lifting for future sales growth has already been done, as the market for online shopping continues to grow by leaps and bounds. A record 259 million Americans made an online purchase in 2018, with 16% of them doing so at least once a week on average.

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Planning to Start a Family Business? Here You Are!

The Startup Magazine

Why not start a family business at the earliest? There are numerous positive reasons behind kicking off a family business, including making money, working for your own future, giving jobs to your relatives and passing business down to the next generation. Moreover, when you employ your own kids, they get work experience as they earn a salary. You may even have the option to benefit yourself from a family business with tax waving-off.

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Surviving an IRS Audit: What You Need to Know

The Startup Magazine

Finding out that you are going to be audited by the IRS can be a little bit scary. However, with the right preparation, anyone can get through it. Here’s what you need to know to survive your IRS audit. Don’t Ignore The Notice. Once you receive your IRS audit notice, you will usually have 30 days to respond to it; the precise time period will be specified in the notice.