Sun.Dec 16, 2018

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Why You Need To Prepare For Chargeback This Christmas

YoungUpstarts

During the festive season, consumer spending habits vary wildly from their usual behaviour. This erratic change of credit card usage means that it becomes much harder for standard fraud protection software to detect and prevent fraudulent credit card activity. As a business owner, this can be detrimental for your company. If a credit card was used fraudulently to make purchases of your goods, you could be hit with chargebacks.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Have a Diverse Workforce? You’ll Need It To Compete.

YoungUpstarts

by Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks , president and CEO of Earth Friendly Products. U.S. demographics have changed incredibly over the past two generations. As such, diversity has become increasingly important to consumers who want to see themselves reflected in the products and services they buy, as well as the brands they support. Job seekers look for diversity, too.

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Entrepreneur Estate Planning Questions Answered

The Startup Magazine

Business owners put so much effort into ensuring that their businesses grow from a small startup to a successful venture. However, when an entrepreneur passes on, most successful businesses will gradually start deteriorating. In most cases, the heirs or successors of the business who are left to manage it don’t know where to start from. To ensure your business continues to thrive even after your death, you should consider hiring an attorney for estate planning.

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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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Reasons Not To Make Decisions Today On Gut Instincts

Startup Professionals Musings

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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7 Things to Know Before Starting a Franchise

The Startup Magazine

For aspiring business owners who don’t have unique ideas to build their own startup from scratch, a franchise seems like the perfect opportunity. But they’re not as straightforward as they might appear. Put simply, a franchise business is usually a nationwide or global chain that allows independent owners to use their corporate logo and identity to open and manage their own business.

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