Fri.May 24, 2019

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Change Your Management Style To Meet Today’s Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

Change is hard. But these days it’s required and inevitable. Yet, in my daily role as an advisor to entrepreneurs and small business owners, struggling to boost revenues, profits, and earnings, I still see too many managers falling back on command-and-control, a focus on weaknesses, and not enough time for people. The result is lost productivity and a poorly engaged work force.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles. The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical.

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Leveraging Technology for a Strong Board Email Retention Policy

Board Effect

In the construction world, there’s a standard saying: “Measure twice, cut once.” That’s because once something has been cut, if it’s too short, there’s no way to fix it. In the office world, the standard for emails should be: “Read it twice; send it once.”. Once you’ve hit that send button, you’ve released complete control over what was sent, even if it was sent to the wrong person.

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How To Recruit The Best Interns For Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Manish Dudharejia, President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc. Hardworking, talented interns are a rare breed. Hiring a young worker to help out at your company can be a great decision, but only if you take the time to find someone who can add value to the team. Because almost every college student in America is looking for an internship at some point, you’ll need to sift through the applicant pool to find the best ones for your small business.

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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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Friday Fun-isms: “Avoid Swiss Army Knives”

View from Seed

An inevitable question that founders face is “how is your product different?” Whether it’s asked explicitly or not, most investors that you speak to have probably seen or heard of a company that does something pretty similar to yours. So it quickly becomes necessary to articular how you plan to stand out in a world of options. More important than what you say is what you actually do, and how your prioritization manifests itself.

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How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

YoungUpstarts

Frontier markets are developing countries that are still too small to be considered as emerging markets. This means that these are countries with a lot of potentials but are also too risky for investors to give attention to. The frontier market is a term coined by the International Finance Corporation’s Frida Khambata in 1992. Such countries are sometimes labeled as emerging markets, but they are still less advanced capital markets in the developing world.

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Download Diagnosis – How To Remedy A Slow Connection

YoungUpstarts

In today’s fast-paced world, we rely on speedy and reliable wireless internet connection for our work and social needs. To the modern user of the World Wide Web, there is nothing more frustrating than slow internet speed or a connection which frequently drops out. Fortunately, there are a few simple ways to speed up your home or business internet. Read on to find the easy ways to remedy a slow connection. 1.

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Planning is the key to success: Start a property development business in 7 simple steps

Our Own Start-up

Property development can be a fulfilling career or even a potentially lucrative part-time business that puts your money to work in a productive way.

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How To Secure A New Job After Moving

YoungUpstarts

Moving to a new town, state, or country can be both terribly exciting and incredibly terrifying. Finding a new place to live, making new friends, settling in to new hobbies – it’s a great upheaval. The greatest change to your life, however, will likely be finding a new job (assuming, of course, that you haven’t relocated for a new job). Finding a new job can be difficult in the best of times, but when you have the pressure and added expenses around you creating the feeling there’s a ticking cloc

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Create a great customer experience – 6 strategies that work

Our Own Start-up

If you want to succeed, you have to make your customer happy.

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How To Reduce Trade Show Shipping Costs

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are a first-time exhibitor or a seasoned one — cost saving is always at the back of your mind. And rightly so! As if the escalating prices of trade show exhibits wasn’t enough. Now you have to pay more for their shipping. From your fabric pop up banners to your retractable banner stands and table throws, you have to ship them all to your trade show destination.

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How to start a spice making business

Our Own Start-up

Spice making business involves the manufacturing of varied spices as well as various condiments that are used to add flavour to the food.

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5 Basic Tips To Master Marketing Messages In 2019

YoungUpstarts

by Jennifer Warren of GoodFirms. Content is the cornerstone of online businesses these days. Simply put, content attracts traffic, leads and ultimately conversions. Not surprisingly, every online store out there is trying to make the most of it by crafting copies that compel the readers to take action. So, now the question is: how to make your content so compelling that readers don’t feel the need to look any other way but singularly focus on your business and your business alone.

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Improving My Handwriting

Feld Thoughts

I have awful handwriting. I used to not care, but at age 53, I find myself writing on paper more than I have the past 30 years. I’ve decided that I’m going to improve my handwriting because I think it will increase my joy of writing on paper. I’ve always rationalized that my bad handwriting comes from being the son of a doctor who has terrible handwriting, being left handed, and spending most of my time typing instead of writing on paper.

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[Interview] Russell Hazard, Director Of The Aidi School – Teaching, Learning, And Innovation Center In Beijing, China

YoungUpstarts

When many of us think of education, we think of children in orderly rows taking notes as their teacher tells them about the world in all its complexity. Though that environment can sometimes be useful, that isn’t really the vision Russell Hazard has for our children. Russell is an educational researcher, teacher professional development specialist, curriculum designer, and classroom teacher who works with schools and also at the level of educational policy development.

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Increase Your Business’ ROI

YoungUpstarts

by David Kosmayer, CEO and Founder of Bookmark.com. With endless technology available at the touch of a finger, it’s never been easier to run your own business. However, to be successful, you need to know how to set yourself apart from your competitors and increase your return on investment. This process starts online, where an intelligently designed website makes all the difference.