Mon.Sep 11, 2017

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10 Negatives That Still Make Going Public A High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate of 15 years ago. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company.

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8 Tips To Make Your Website More Sticky

YoungUpstarts

A sticky website is one where visitors hang around because they love what you’ve got. When you’re just getting started it’s important to focus on your stickiness stats to help improve conversions and get your name to stand out in people’s minds. Getting your bounce rate down to reasonable levels is one indicator that your stickiness is improving. If visitors are spending more time on your site, that’s generally a good sign too.

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Want To Be Successful In Business? Leave Your Office

YFS Magazine

In order to be a successful entrepreneur, the best thing you can do is leave your office. Here's a look at when you should alter your surroundings–and why.

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How To Turn Your Passions & Hobbies Into A Career

YoungUpstarts

by Jessica Oaks. If you are currently stuck in a dead-end job that leaves you feeling unfulfilled and drained at the end of the day, it might be time to make some changes in your life. There are many things that you can do to recapture your old spirit, some of them work-related, some of them not. You could start (and stick) to a new diet. You could start socializing and making new friends.

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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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US Government Grant Tips for New Business

The Startup Magazine

If your business idea has goals that can be aligned to those set up by certain government departments, it might be an excellent idea to try and get financed through a government grant. A lot of entrepreneurs look to get a government grant so they can start their business – billions of dollars are available in total from such grants. Of course, it is important that you understand that the government only offers grants for projects which align with their departments’ goals, such as cre

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Soulful Leadership: Reimagining Leadership’s Purpose

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Gaurav Bhalla, CEO of Knowledge Kinetics and author of “ Awakening a Leader’s Soul: Learnings Through Immortal Poems “ New times require new narratives… and leadership is no exception. Especially since the story of leadership today is one of serial crises with the meltdown occurring in virtually all organizations of civic society, ranging from government to education to healthcare, NGOs, and even religion.

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Join The Laptop Lifestyle Academy Today And Get Access To My New Course – ‘Emails Revealed’ (Open This Week Only)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Last week I published two new articles here on EJ that explained how I was able to take six months off from my business and still generate $153,428 USD, thanks to the power of automatic email campaigns I have written over the last few years. In those blog posts, I mentioned. The post Join The Laptop Lifestyle Academy Today And Get Access To My New Course – ‘Emails Revealed’ (Open This Week Only) appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Monday Morning Motivation: Mr. Wonderful on Controlling Your Own Destiny

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. There’s nothing unique about any one individual. What’s unique is their passion, their ability to execute, to meet targets and exceed them. If you want to control your own destiny, you work for yourself.

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Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions?

Ben's Blog

“I’d be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the b t I hear today” – Big Sean, The One. I felt a little odd writing that title.

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At a Store Called Stuff It’s About So Much More Than the Stuff!

Duct Tape Marketing

At a Store Called Stuff It’s About So Much More Than the Stuff! written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Today I’m thrilled to share the story of my long-time friends and Kansas Citians Casey and Sloane Simmons, co-founders of a store called Stuff , as a part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress , which is showcasing the people behind our favorite local businesses that welcome American Express.

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“What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives”

Jeff Hilimire

My kids getting a chance to talk with Henry Winkler. “What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives” – J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy. It’s funny how things hit you all at once. After reading both Hillbilly Elegy and Rabbit ( please read them both! ), I realized more than ever that in life, expectations mean everything.

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Should I Open a Franchise or Start a Business?

Up and Running

The feelings of ownership and fulfillment that come with entrepreneurship are only beaten by the rewards that pay out if your venture succeeds! But there are drawbacks, too—namely a lot of work and risk. It’s because of these pros and cons that so many ask the question: Should I open a franchise or start my own business? There’s no blanket answer because you need to consider several things before taking the next step.

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It’s Show Time! Getting Noticed At An Event

YoungUpstarts

The pros of events for businesses are clear. From increasing brand awareness to generating leads, a trade show is a useful tool. However, one thing companies quickly learn is that success isn’t guaranteed because the competition is fierce. Standing out from the crowd is hard work, especially when this is your first rodeo. So, what should you do? Attend and hope for the best?

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Productivity -- The North Star

A Crowded Space

The following is a guest post I wrote recently for my friends at ShareTribe for their Marketplace Academy. —– Productivity. It’s one of the relentless pursuits of innovation over the millennia. Marketplaces play a pivotal role in this process—they offer the promise of eliminating middlemen, centralizing goods or work, handling payments, fraud, service, and every other aspect of transactions.

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Israel’s Machine Intelligence Startup Landscape 2017

VC Cafe

In previous posts, VC Cafe covered promising Machine Intelligence startups in Israel, emerging clusters for Machine Intelligence around the world and the speed at which they are getting funded and. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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