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How To Make Your Home Office 5 Times More Productive

YoungUpstarts

by Rory Whelan, marketing manager for eReceptionist. Over four million Brits work from home, lured by the promise of a flexible and balanced lifestyle. Benefits like removing the stressful commute, avoiding countless distractions from your co-workers and working on your terms make remote work a no brainer. This type of work should be easy, right? But sometimes it’s not that simple.

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Austin A-List Entry Deadline: April 8

Austin Startup

Central Texas startups should enter the Austin A-List Competition before the April 8 deadline The Forrest Four-Cast: March 25, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups came to Austin for SXSW 2019. Click here to read more about best of show winner Nebula Genomics and the other amazing young companies that distinguished themselves at this year’s event. As for the top startups that are located in Central Texas, many of these will be honored at the annual Austin A-List Awards , which are co-presented by

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8 All Too Painful Entrepreneur Negotiation Mistakes

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay One of the things I have learned the hard way over my years in business, and in advising others, is that it takes more than passion, creativity, and hard work to start and grow a business. A key skill that many of you don’t appreciate is the ability to effectively manage the negotiations that come with every business. The results are lost opportunity, poor contracts, or a failed business.

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SAP Nation 3.0 Excerpts: A tapestry of customers and strategies

deal architect

My new book is now available to buy here in print version, and for pre-order in the Kindle version. As with my earlier books, I will excerpt roughly 10% of the 400 page book in a series of posts on.

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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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How to Manage Your Reputation to Attract the Best Engineering Talent

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As an engineering firm, your reputation is everything, but at the end of the day, you’ll only ever be as good as the quality of your staff. Your reputation isn’t just important for attracting clients, it is critical for attracting the talent into your firm as well. You need talent to build a great reputation, and you need a solid reputation to get the engineers at the top of their game onto your payroll.

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How And Why Startups Conduct And Use Clinical Trials

YoungUpstarts

If you are the founder of a startup that is linked in some way to the medical industry, you may be wondering if a clinical trial will be helpful to you and your budding company. While you are probably aware that major pharmaceutical companies use conduct clinical trials quite frequently, you may be unsure if it’s an appropriate step for your startup.

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Startup Communities Everywhere in the World

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I are in Knoxville, Tennessee all week. We are with Ian Hathaway (my co-author of an upcoming book titled The Startup Community Way) finishing up the draft of the book. My plan was to end the week with the Knoxville Marathon on Sunday ( marathon #26 ) but I had a crummy long run on Saturday in Boulder and woke up this morning with a cold. While it could merely be pre-race hypochondria, I feel lethargic enough to consider downgrading to the half marathon.

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5 Unique Ways to Save Startup Costs

The Startup Magazine

On a tight budget, it really pays to scrimp and save. For your new business venture to be successful, you need to focus on minimizing startup costs as much as possible. We’ve therefore come up with some money-saving ideas when starting a business. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels. Buy Used Equipment. One of the biggest mistakes new startup owners make is starting their ventures with brand new machines or equipment.

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Focus (or Do Less, Better)

Eric Friedman

I was thinking about early teams recently that are out to change the world, conquer multiple areas, and dominate multiple business lines – all from day one. The reality is usually quite different. I have found that focusing in on what matters most, your core competencies, executing in one area serve the the company, investors, and market at large is a better plan.

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 Small Business Tech Trends You Need to Know About

The Startup Magazine

As the owner of a small business, you may not be as aware of the big technology trends that bigger businesses will be accustomed to using. Technology is essential for modern day businesses, as they can play a vital role in the efficiency and growth of your business. Photo by Eddie Kopp on Unsplash. Emerging technology trends often become widely accepted across industries and can be a great way to compete with a competitor.

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What Small Business Owners Need To Know About Marketing Compliance

YFS Magazine

Entrepreneurs often overlook marketing regulations and associated penalties. Here's a look at key marketing compliance tips to keep in mind.

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Balancing Life and Work as an Entrepreneur: How to Actually Make Both Work in Your Favor

The Startup Magazine

Anyone who has a busy professional life knows that it is so hard to manage time for your family after handling everything the job throws at you. However, when you are the owner of a business that’s trying to make its presence felt in a super competitive industry , no one but someone in those shoes can understand the kind of pressure this puts on people and their personal lives.

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Should you follow best practices? Probably, YES!

ConversionXL

Should you follow a list of best practices when working on a conversion optimization project? Maybe. Best practices in the conversion optimization world get a bad rap, but it doesn’t mean they are wrong. In this episode, Peep discusses why following some best practices at the beginning of a project, is actually a good thing. If you don’t have enough data, best practices can at least give you somewhere to start.

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Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

I’m excited to share the news that this year’s Lean Startup Conference has a time and place: October 23-25 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. I always get so much from from spending time with Lean Startup practitioners of every kind, and I love how the conference has grown from its early days. We now welcome everyone from people at startups to big companies, government, and non-profits, in all stages of finding out how Lean Startup helps them thrive in the work they do.

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Food, Data and Modernity

Start Up Blog

People are driven by scarcity. Things of value, with limited availability, drive a strong desire for more. Information used to be like that. We had very few channels for accessing knowledge. It used to difficult to find esoteric content. But once we found it, it was usually of high quality. But information in today’s world has done a complete turn around.

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5 Perfect Carry-On Suitcases For Your Next Business Trip

YFS Magazine

The perfect suitcase is stylish, durable, and thoughtfully designed. Here's a look at five carry-on's that make us want to catch flights.

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Monday Motivation: DISCIPLINE

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Self-discipline is key to success. Disciplining yourself means more freedom. Life is about constant growth. It takes discipline to face your fears.

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What Technology to Consider When Starting a Nonprofit

Board Effect

A nonprofit begins with an idea for a helpful cause. In researching how to start a nonprofit, founders have work to do on many fronts. Of course, founders need to understand all the basics of creating charters, bylaws and Articles of Incorporation, and forming a board of directors. Once the board establishes a nonprofit organization, the real work begins — coordinating fundraising, recruiting volunteers, hiring staff, and planning for success and sustainability.

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How WiFi Marketing Can Help Restaurants Boost Customer Loyalty

Up and Running

In today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, restaurants have the challenging and sometimes unenviable task of making their brand stand out from all the others. For newer businesses, it can be even more difficult due to a smaller budget and fewer loyal customers. In comparison to online retailers, brick-and-mortar businesses are typically short on what has become the most important component of marketing today—actual customer data.

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Q1 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We’re already a full quarter into 2019, and as expected, it’s shaping up to be a busy year. The Version One portfolio is filled with great startups doing incredible things, and here’s a selection of what has been happening (that we can talk about publicly): Company news and product releases: Outreach launched Galaxy, the app marketplace for the modern sales team.

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What Are The Best Markets For Startups?

YoungUpstarts

When it comes down to startups, as well as emerging businesses, they have to make efforts to succeed in getting where they want. Can newly-established businesses make a real impact? As a matter of fact, yes. You can be profitable and bring change in the world. Startups in developing economies, for instance, are addressing their issues through ingenious technologies and solutions.

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Kerwin McKenzie: Travel Hacker And Aviation Geek Explains How He Spends 50 Weeks A Year Traveling The World

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript Coming Soon | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Raw RSS ] I’ve been in awe of Kerwin McKenzie ever since I first started following him on Instagram. Kerwin lives on airplanes. Every single day I watch his stories and view his photos from the inside of planes and airports, the outside […].

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[Infographic] Is SEO Or SEM Better For Online Marketing?

YoungUpstarts

Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking. Graphic: For every $1 spent on AdWords (a form of SEM), companies tend to increase their revenue by $2. ( 1 ). 57 percent of B2B marketers said SEO is their prized revenue-generating marketing method and is

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Taking Your Career In Teaching To The Next Level

YoungUpstarts

Your students aren’t the only ones who have the potential for personal growth, you know. You, their teacher, can also shoot for the stars in a bid to take your career to the next level. In order to climb the ladder in your profession, you’re going to have to dedicate yourself to the field of teaching as you’ve never done before. This involves you giving up even more of your free time than you already do, constantly looking for ways to make your lessons far more intuitive and engaging, and learni