Thu.May 21, 2020

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. So you’ve just had a lightbulb moment and stumbled across the perfect business idea, one that is going to revolutionise the world and disrupt the market. “It’s genius! It’s the next thing!” you say. You envision your business as the next Uber or Spotify, yourself as the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, reaching that prestigious ‘unicorn’ startup status in record time.

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Should You Start a Business? Test Your Idea First

Up and Running

As I write this, during the worst pandemic in 100 years, in the grips of a severe economic slowdown — let’s all hope it’s just recession, not depression — people still want to start new businesses. . We still come up with new business ideas. Some ideas come from the new problems we are experiencing, some are long-standing good ideas, some would work now, and some would work only after the economy reopens and recovers.

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The Covid-19 virus is not politically correct

Steve Blank

The Covid-19 virus is not politically correct. It discriminates against the old and the unhealthy. The biggest risk factor in dying from the virus is age. If you’re 60 to 70 years old, you’re 30 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than if you’re under 40. And if you’re over 80, you’re 180 times more likely. It’s not that the young don’t get sick or die, but the odds are dramatically different.

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Fundraising When You?ve Been at it a While

View from Seed

Fundraising for startups is a mix of selling both promise and reality. In some respects, one of the often non-intuitive privileges of a seed stage fundraising process is that the company is so new. There isn’t much history, much reality, to get in the way of a good story. So a lot of Founders can weave a tale of the promise of what could be created rather than what has been created.

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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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Unique Marketing Ideas You Haven’t Thought Of

YoungUpstarts

Marketing is an important part of nearly every business. It helps grow your brand, spread your message, and attract new customers. However, every company knows this and markets, so you need to find a way to get a leg up. Offering a better or different product is great, but considering changing up how you market. This, in itself, can differentiate you from the competition.

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Utsav Somani’s microstartup iSeed helps startups in India connect with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

Our Own Start-up

iSeed is named as a bridge between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Indian founders. The Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are those already established entrepreneurs and Indian founders are those who are in search of money as well as expertise and knowledge of startup.

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How to Define Your Path Towards Wellness

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Define Your Path Towards Wellness written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dr. Nancy Trimboli. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dr. Nancy Trimboli, a health expert, and chiropractor with over 25 years of experience. She has taken the lessons she learned from her father, an Episcopalian priest, and from earning a black belt in Taekwondo and used those as the foundation for her compassionate care of patients and for the

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Bitcoin – Latest Trending Way To Earn Money

YoungUpstarts

Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency has long been the subject of debate. Whatever your reason, in this article we will talk about various ways to make money on Bitcoins. We will analyze the various ways to make money on cryptocurrency, but first of all, we must understand why Bitcoin is so popular. Then, when we look at the history (or at least its super short version) of the appearance and increase in the dominance of this cryptocurrency, we also study all the possible ways to make money on cryptocurre

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Small business ideas that’ll make you money in 2020

Our Own Start-up

This is an exhaustive list of small business ideas, and you can look for more avenues to inspire yourself.

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Let’s talk about whistle-blowers

Berkonomics

Assuming that a corporate whistle-blower is not tooting about you individually, such a class of people have been granted protections under the law and serve a function that needs to be acknowledged. Motive of the whistle-blower. First, the assumption is that such a person is not making his or her gesture for personal profit, but to give proper notice that there is something illegal going on within the company that the person cannot accept and must tell someone about.

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How to successfully market your manufacturing company in 2020

Our Own Start-up

If you are not sure how to market your manufacturing company then read on.

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In Times of Pandemic, In Gates We Trust

Reid Hoffman

Even as reports of a new viral outbreak in China started popping up during the first weeks of 2020, most people were slow to pay sufficient attention to the developing threat. In contrast, Bill and Melinda Gates acted decisively and quickly. On January 29th, the Gates Foundation pledged $10 million “to help frontline responders in China and Africa accelerate their efforts to contain the global spread.”.

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Why you should choose to do an MBA in 2020

Our Own Start-up

Interested to know more about how an MBA degree can help you fulfill your professional goals and ensure that you reach your full potential career-wise?

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5 Need-To-Know SEO Tips For Law Firms

YoungUpstarts

Knowing how search engine optimization works is important if you want a good search ranking with a search engine like Google or Duck Duck Go , and given that there is a fair amount of competition between lawyers, you will need every advantage that you can get. If you need some help improving your law practice’s SEO, here are a few things you can keep in mind when making improvements.

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How to protect your work as a Rising Entrepreneur

Our Own Start-up

There is always a possibility that someone might rob an entrepreneur of this work that gives rise to the profit-generating power driving their brand.