Mon.Apr 27, 2020

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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

In a period of uncertainty, the easiest thing to do as a VC is to be paralyzed by fear and do nothing. We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. But when it comes to new investments, the path of least resistance is to hang back and see how things play out.

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8 Things You Need To Start a Business During a Recession

Up and Running

Recessions, or even a volatile market like we’re currently experiencing due to COVID-19 , are difficult times. There’s a great amount of uncertainty, people losing their jobs, and a direct hit on cash flows that can place businesses in dire straights. But it doesn’t have to be all bad. . Current businesses are finding ways to pivot their business models, revisiting their budgets, and developing new forecasts to minimize their burn rate and maximize their available cash runway.

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What’s Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human

Steve Blank

Over the last month billions of people have been unwilling participants in the largest unintentional social experiment ever run – testing how video conferencing replaced face-to-face communication. While we’ve discovered that in many cases it can, more importantly we’ve discovered that, regardless of bandwidth and video resolution, these apps are missing the cues humans use when they communicate.

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Boost Productivity and Stay Secure While Working Remotely

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Remote work is fast becoming the new normal in the corporate world, especially with the current outbreak. With the prevalence of collaborative tools such as Trello, Jira and Slack, companies are beginning to find new ways to help their workers to maintain productivity in the comforts of their home. For freelancers majorly, such setup is quite the order of the day for them.

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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 Tips To Keep Your Startup Productive, Not Just Busy

Startup Professionals Musings

If you want to make a great first impression on a startup investor or an advisor like me, don’t try to convince me or show me how busy you are. For some reason, too many aspiring entrepreneurs I know seem to focus on “actions” rather than “results.” Based on my experience, survival and success are both about doing the right things , and not about doing everything.

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5 Ways to Use Tech to Improve Customer Satisfaction

Women Entrepreneurs Can

With millions of different companies worldwide and cut-throat competition, the central tenet of businesses is undergoing a sea-change. Start-ups like 4DHealthWare and Biobot Analytics are leading the way, and business today is all about customer satisfaction. Bill Gates coined the phrase, ‘Customer is King.’ With so many world-class options available for every product and service, the only way to differentiate in the marketplace now is how you treat your customers.

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Economic Access for Mass Market Workers – What We Are Excited About

View from Seed

In one’s everyday life, “work” is certainly one of the most important activities that occupies up to half (if not more) of the available hours of a day. Your line of work not only impacts how you go about your working hours, it also shapes your identity and the choices available to other non-work aspects of your daily life. . Despite the gradual shift towards a more “white collar-driven” economy over the last 40 years, there are still over 110 million “mass market workers” in blue collar and ser

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7 Key Legal Tips For Every Young Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Establishing a startup business is very exciting and fulfilling. However, there are other serious aspects that you need to consider, such as the legal aspect. It prevents you from running into legal issues that could hurt or even kill your startup. But, do you know these legal aspects? Well, let us enlighten you on some key legal tips you ought to know as you venture into business. 1.

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The Disorientation of Exiting Phase 1

Feld Thoughts

We are starting to exit phase 1 of the Covid Crisis in the United States. If you find the whole thing extremely disorienting, you have my empathy. In mid-April, I was getting used to the Stay at Home mode. I’d joke about how I was made for this and was never leaving my house again. Last weekend I took a digital sabbath and woke up feeling energized on Monday.

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Denmark Make Changes In Their Help To Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Denmark is known for its good conditions, when it comes to entrepreneurs. Currently Denmark holds one of the top spots when it comes to the best countries to start a new company in. That is because the shifting Danish government always have collaborated closely with companies and entrepreneurs to make sure they have the best conditions to drive business and create jobs.

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PPP and Women and Minority-Owned Businesses – We Need To Do More

VC Adventure

I’ve published a number of posts over the past few weeks about some of the challenges of the existing PPP loans and in particular, about my concerns that the loans aren’t getting to as many of the smaller businesses that need them. In this CNBC op-ed article , Elizabeth McBride and I pointed out how the face of entrepreneurship in the United States is changing.

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Nine Sneaky Ways To Unseat An Incumbent Competitor

YoungUpstarts

by Andrew Sobel, author of “ It Starts With Clients: Your 100-Day Plan to Build Lifelong Relationships and Revenue “ You’ve been asked to write a proposal for a prospect you know already has an existing supplier. Or maybe no RFP has been issued, but, darn it, you really want this company as a client so you’ve decided to go after them anyway!

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Accelerators can help startups survive the pandemic by boosting diversity

The Next Web

Business accelerators are programmes which offer various types of support, including training, mentorship, access to workspaces and investment, to early-stage businesses with the aim of helping them through the fragile early stages of growth. They may play a vital role in post-COVID-19 recovery. In a recent study, funded by the UK government, we found evidence that participating in one particular accelerator (which will remain anonymous) was associated with an increase in business survival rates

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Three Things That You Can Do To Improve Your Studies When You Are In College

YoungUpstarts

When you are in college there are more than a hundred different things that you have to think of. There are deadlines at every corner, and it is not always easy to remember the different formalia and rules for every paper that has to be turned in before sunday midnight. Therefore it is a good idea that you armour yourself with good tips and advice, so that you have the best chance of being successful in your classes and in your studies in general.

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Remagine Ventures’ virtual office hours

VC Cafe

In March, we started offering virtual office hours at Remagine Ventures. Given the uncertainty about the funding environment, we wanted to offer entrepreneurs a way to engage, get feedback and ask any questions they may have about our space, both challenges and opportunities. (Also, the pace of seeing startups in lockdown was lower, and we love talking to founders, and thought this could be a neat, low-pressure way to do it).

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Texas Governor Allows Stay at Home Order to Expire and Announces Plans to Reopen Select Businesses Friday at 25 Percent Capacity

SiliconHills

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday plans to allow Texas’ stay at home order, which closed businesses and required Texans to limit social contact to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic, to expire on Thursday. Governor Abbot also announced a new order allowing retailers, restaurants, movie theaters, and malls to reopen Friday at […].

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Monday Motivation: No Refunds COVID-19 Motivation

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Please stay safe and sound and check out our list of resources at CEO Blog Nation. Takeaways: The cards you get are the cards you get. Someone is going to emerge from this crisis better than when they walked in. Here’s what winners do: They ASSESS, ADAPT, ADVANCE.

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Surveillance in our Schools – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

Google are grooming our kids. Yep, you read that right. As I type this my child is sitting next to me doing school work at home – thanks to the ‘free’ Google classroom software – on his Chromebook, with all his data being stored in Googles servers. The world’s biggest Surveillance Capitalist is in the middle of creating a shadow profile for my boy.

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Monday Motivation: WAKE UP & GRIND – Morning Motivation

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Don’t bow down to procrastination. Rise up and aggressively move forward. Vow to be amazing. Dream the dream, stop making excuses. The post Monday Motivation: WAKE UP & GRIND – Morning Motivation appeared first on Hearpreneur.

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Insights: COVID-19 Alert Level 3 FAQs

NZ Entrepreneur

New Zealand moved to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday, 27 April. FAQs received from our members about operating businesses under Alert Level 3 below. Am I able to apply for the COVID-19 Leave Support scheme for my employees? As of 28 April, the COVID-19 Leave Support scheme covers all workers (outside of the state sector), not just those in essential services.

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Marketing Tips for the Woman-Centric Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you’re a woman in business, you already know that you have to work twice as hard for half the results. It can be frustrating, but when you experience success, the rewards taste that much sweeter. These days, more and more female entrepreneurs and business owners are at the forefront of the industry, putting themselves out there and seeing amazing successes.

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Do confidentiality agreements with time limits protect your trade secrets?

NZ Entrepreneur

A lot of clients, particularly those based in the US, ask us about confidentiality agreements that include a time limit on the confidentiality obligations (usually between three and five years). Time limits are particularly common in the tech sector, where technology tends to move and evolve more quickly. Although commonly used, it is worthwhile to stop and consider why we should accept time limits, and how we can include a time limit in a confidentiality agreement while also providing adequate

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Getting People to See Your Business Site

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you run a business, your website is going to be an important tool when it comes to making sales. If you’re not making the sales in-store, then you need to be focusing your efforts on how you’re going to get people to see your business site. It’s not as easy as you might think, which is why a lot of companies have a high bounce rate, which is something you want to avoid if possible because if you one, then this is going to be picked up by the search engine which can impact the visibility of

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Leading The Way: 10 Essential Qualities Of An Effective Leader

YoungUpstarts

The iconic football coach Vince Lombardi once famously said, “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”. Although leadership may be attainable through dint of hard work, it’s also true that some of us might be more naturally suited to leadership than others, simply because of certain qualities that we possess — although we can certainly strive to improve ourselves in those areas, as well

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3 Ways of Promoting Creativity in Your Professional Life

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Creativity is something like the holy grail of business – meaning that everyone knows that creativity can be a make or break factor in personal and professional success, but that it’s also very difficult to figure out just how to “be creative.”. On the one hand, creativity is difficult to define in any kind of objective sense. On the other hand, we all know it when we see it – and innovations such as the iPhone are, undoubtedly, rooted in a substantial degree of creativity.

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