Tue.Mar 07, 2017

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5 Things Successful Entrepreneurs Don’t Do

YoungUpstarts

by Pratik Dholakiya , Co-Founder of E2M and MoveoApps. Most of the time, we’re told about the qualities that great entrepreneurs possess and the things they do that make them successful. However, incomplete knowledge can be dangerous, which is why it is equally important to know what great entrepreneurs do not do. Sometimes, avoiding or skipping certain habits and characteristics can help.

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What You Really Need to Know About Cash Flow

Up and Running

Cash is king. You’ve heard it forever, but do you know what it really means? Cash in this context isn’t bills or coins, it’s money in the bank that you can spend today. It’s the single most important resource in any business, and also one that is way too frequently misunderstood. You need cash in the bank. The problem with cash in business is that we tend to take it for granted.

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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

by Rocky Chan, business consultant for Enterph.com. Startups caught the attention of venture capitalists as far back as three decades ago. At the time, most startups were from the internet’s dot com side of businesses, as the outlook was bullish then. Unfortunately, a number of them had an early exit from the business scene due to ineffective business plans and/or unsustained revenue for their investment.

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Become An Industry Influencer With This Quick-Start Guide

YFS Magazine

The internet is saturated, but there are niche markets waiting for a new influencer to shake things up! Become an industry influencer with this quick guide.

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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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Tips on Getting Funding for Your Healthcare Start Up

YoungUpstarts

Are you in the process of starting your own healthcare business? Deciding to establish your own healthcare company has the potential to be a commercial success and could be one of the best decisions you ever make. However, when you are starting out, there are certain obstacles you need to overcome. Money is often one of the main concerns of startup owners, so it’s vital to address this issue straight away and ensure that you can get the funding you need to move forward with your business v

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Redesigning Your Website? Don’t Forget An SEO Audit

YFS Magazine

It’s time to relaunch with a bang. But before your new website goes online you'll want to run a few tests—specifically, an SEO audit.

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How To Set Goals Like You’re Google (Even If You’re Not)

Hunter Walker

Embrace the 10x factor. That is, ask the question, “what would we do differently if we were trying to increase revenue 10x instead of by 10%” or “instead of working on features which improve conversion by a few percentage points, what would we need to do to experience an order of magnitude lift?” It’s simple, and doesn’t always produce immediate breakthroughs, but at least challenge your team to see if there are higher risk bets which could produce commensurat

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How to fit OKRs into your company’s mission and values

The Next Web

In Simon Sinek’s Ted Talk entitled, How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Sinek refocuses companies away from thinking first about what they do, and instead advises them to figure out why they’re doing it. This not only impacts their services and products, but also the people who build out and fulfill the company vision. No matter how great your vision, the world will always be pulling your company away from fulfilling your higher purpose.

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I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The other night I was at a small networking dinner event in Vancouver. As we were doing round the table problem solving, one of the other entrepreneurs commented about how much time she spends every evening keeping up with her email. I turned to her and said… I haven’t handled. The post I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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How to Take a Guilt-Free Mental Health Day

Transformify

Written by Julie Morris. In a society where being overworked and overstressed is worn like a badge of honor, it’s easy to feel guilty for needing a mental health day. Instead of taking time to care for ourselves when we feel overwhelmed, we all too often power through, only to feel twice as worn out when we come out the other side. But taking a sick day to care for your mental health is just as valid as taking one when you’re stuck in bed with a fever.

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I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The other night I was at a small networking dinner event in Vancouver. As we were doing round the table problem solving, one of the other entrepreneurs commented about how much time she spends every evening keeping up with her email. I turned to her and said… I haven’t handled. The post I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Why You Must Create a Total Online Presence Right Now

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Must Create a Total Online Presence Right Now written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Your website is the hub of your online presence and is clearly a must in this digital world. However, it’s only one piece of the marketing puzzle. It won’t return the results you need unless you optimize and integrate a what I’ve long been referring to as a total online presence.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. There are certainly companies doing them well, but not a lot of detail goes into instruction, and the blog posts out there on how to build personas are generally pretty bad. I recently created robust user personas for CXL Institute (on inspiration from a course in our CRO certification program taught by Stefania Mereu and Eric Taylor ), and it went well.