Thu.Nov 05, 2020

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How to Find the Best Web Developer for Your Business Website

Up and Running

Building a website from scratch can be a challenge for most people. There is often a lot of confusing jargon involved as well as hidden expenses that most will be unaware of. This is why a lot of business owners seek out the help of a web developer to do all the technical work for them. Each new project will have its own unique needs, so when approaching a web designer there are a set of questions you should ask.

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New Normal: A conversation with M.R. Rangaswami of Sand Hill Group

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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Why Improving Customer Service Is Vital for Success

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Improving customer service is becoming increasingly difficult for companies. It is not easy to manage customer service so that it is always perceived in the same way in all interactions with the customer. On the other hand, the client is empowered; they quickly get what they want and how they want it. Changing providers is straightforward, and therefore it is increasingly challenging to retain them.

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New Normal: A repeat conversation with Daniel Pullin of TCU

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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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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The Liminal Space

Feld Thoughts

I’ve personally been in a liminal space for most of 2020. Today, most of America is in a liminal space. The word liminal comes from the Latin word ‘limen’, meaning threshold – any point or place of entering or beginning. A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a season of waiting, and not knowing.

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10 Steps To Giving A Compelling Presentation At Work

The Startup Magazine

As you develop your career in the business world, you are going to need to learn how to give business presentations that not only give great insights, but position you as an authority on the topic. Sadly, many people lack the confidence it takes to get up in front of an audience and will avoid this great opportunity. The fear of having to appear in front of colleagues at events or in the office can be overwhelming.

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Small steps for big profits

Mike Michalowicz

Racing to the finish line? Not going to work. Instead take small steps. Over. And Over. And Over again. I know! You built your business to succeed! You built it to be profitable! The thing is, you cannot build permanent profitability overnight. There’s no “big break” It’s by taking the small steps, incrementally, and building that habit over and over that will lead to profitability.

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3 Important Branding Insights for Minority-Owned Businesses and Founders of Color

crowdSPRING Blog

Important branding insights that can help founders of color and minority founders build a successful business:

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Tips for managing personal finances for start-ups and small business owners

Our Own Start-up

When you are just starting up or if you have a small business, the initial few years are high investment years in terms of both product validation and market uptake as well as steady income. In this phase, it is essential to manage your personal finance well. Because when personal finances are not managed well, […].

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Why SMEs Need IT Support Amidst The Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

by Aaron Adlem, Managing Director at Mercury IT Solutions UK. You would be hard-pressed to find a business that hasn’t been affected by the pandemic. Admittedly, some businesses have been able to flourish amidst all the uncertainty, but many more haven’t. With a nation-wide reliance on remote working schemes calling for countless employees to carry out the business’ essential processes from their own homes – proficient IT support and management has never been so important.

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How A Good Payroll Management System Can Benefit Your Business

Transformify

Every organization employs different personnel such as - full-time, part-time employees, consultants, freelancers, contractors, etc. They provide their services in exchange for monetary compensation and are said to be on the company payroll system. A payroll management system is a software that manages the payments of employees in an organization. However, it is not just limited to the salary.

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Real Estate Investing: Why Should Landlords Hire A Property Manager?

YFS Magazine

It's a smart move to focus on finding profitable investments, and put them in the hands of someone who can help them thrive.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

Back in 2016, I read a book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, founder of Google Ventures. Knapp talks about focusing on only the essential activities for shipping new products and testing new ideas. As advocated in the book, I felt the idea of using restraint would help me quickly execute on new ideas. And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born.

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The rise of AI-ML use cases post-COVID

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we take a look at how COVID-19 is changing the way industries will be operating in the.

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Turning Your Professional Experience into Business Success

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It’s a journey that a lot of people take. You may have been working your way up in your career, gaining the experience and confidence that you need, but now you want to take what you have learned and apply it to your own business. However, running a business within an industry isn’t the same thing as having a job in it. There are some steps that can help you make that switch, and here we’re going to cover a few of them.

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Airbnb case study: Your Home away from Home

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we take a look at the Airbnb case study.

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Making Your Small Business Finance Simpler

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Running your own businesses comes with many challenges, one of which is your finances. If dealing with money isn’t one of your strengths, or you simply have too much to do, your business’ finances can soon end up neglected – making them even more difficult to deal with! If only small business finance could be simpler? Well, the good news is that it can!

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

We just held our tenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was The DoD and Modern War.

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Tips for Providing a Safe Work Environment During COVID-19

Women Entrepreneurs Can

In order to provide a safe working environment during this pandemic, you should be doing more as a business to make it so. There is plenty you can be doing to help make your workplace a safer place, whether you have all of your staff back currently or not. It’s an odd time that we’re living in, but there is plenty that you can do in order to keep business running as usual, even if it might not be quite back to normal.

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Ready, fire, aim. Really?

Berkonomics

You’ve surely heard the variations on this theme. “Ready, fire aim” was popular in the 1990’s, accredited to any of several authors. I used the term to describe my efforts in the artificial intelligence field, experimenting with new devices, the lisp programming language, and our first trial installations. It seemed an ideal way to describe a scrappy, entrepreneurial activity.

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Thinking of Filing for Bankruptcy Due to COVID-19? Here’s What to Consider

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The months spent in lockdown earlier this year changed the landscape for businesses. Many struggled to keep afloat with no physical customers, no high street shopping and restrictions over whether you were allowed to keep your business open or not. Even those with online businesses struggled. Supply chains stalled, halting production lines. How could anyone send out a product if the product couldn’t be made?