Tue.Apr 28, 2020

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Going Global: How To Build A Distributed Team

YoungUpstarts

Going global is often a requisite growth path for businesses seeking to expand and whilst the model of setting up satellite offices is a tried and tested way to expand overseas a more recent organizational model is that of ‘distributed’ teams or companies. What exactly defined a distributed company though and what are some of the challenges in running a company using this relatively new organizational model?

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10 Ways to Stay Productive While Working Remote

Up and Running

For many of you, it’s likely that you’re just finishing up your fourth or fifth full week working from home in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Working remotely, especially for your first time, can be challenging to adjust to. Stationed in the comfort of your recliner with the fridge just a room away is appealing, but it has its drawbacks. Endless texts, calls, and remote meetings, children or pets wanting to play, and countless other distractions can make it difficult to separate your home l

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The New Normal: A conversation with Mike Laven, CEO, The Currency Cloud

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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The 5 Biggest Crisis-Related Mistakes Your Business Is Probably Making

YoungUpstarts

by Shannon Tucker, Vice President of Media Relations at SSPR. Two words that make me cringe: “No comment.”. I’ve been working in PR for close to 15 years, and I still spend more time than I’d like trying to get clients to understand the importance of crisis planning. Many see it as an afterthought, others prefer the, “No comment,” approach and want to run as fast as they can in the opposite direction.

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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 New Normal: A conversation with Bill Berutti and Jerry Foster of Plex Systems

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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New Company Makes It Easy To Find The Cheapest Price For Bus Rentals

YoungUpstarts

*the following article is paid and produced in collaboration with the websites linked to. There are a lot of advantages to renting a bus for any occasion. It could be for a trip with your coworkers, a stag party, or a bus going abroad for any kind of vacation. No matter what reason you have, you now have the opportunity to rent a whole bus with a driver through a new company called 3bustilbud.dk.

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Tough Times May Mean Foreclosure – Tips From Long Island Based Legal Experts

The Startup Magazine

In tough times, you may be facing foreclosure. Seeing a lender take control over your property can be quite stressful, especially if you are 100% sure that you cannot do anything about it. To protect your business, financial, and personal reputation, there is reason to believe you can fight this and win. In order to know if you should give up, or give it a go, you need to understand the whole process of foreclosure.

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How to Get High-Quality Backlinks

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Get High-Quality Backlinks written by Jenna Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Getting backlinks can seem like a daunting task. How do you get other businesses to link to your site online? If you don’t have any backlinks yet you can get up and running pretty quickly by tapping your existing partners and resources within your community.

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Historic Oil Crash Highlights Need for Diversified Portfolios

The Startup Magazine

In April 2020, millions across the world sat in awe watching the historic oil crash which subsequently had a ripple effect into other markets. The tumultuous nature of the plummet highlighted a burgeoning need for investors to have proper portfolio diversification; advice commonly given out, but scarcely followed. Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash.

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From Subtle Evolutionary Trends to Sledgehammer Change

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Change creates opportunity. Societal, cultural, technological, and/or economic changes create disruption in the market. These forces, known as macro trends, create new needs in the market and make many existing companies’ business models lacking or even obsolete. Generally, macro trends lead to subtle changes over time that can be almost imperceptible to many of us. […].

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you get a calendar invite for an all-hands meeting—with no warning or context? I got one of those in 2018, mere months after I started at data.world as their first growth marketing and demand generation hire. My initial role was to grow the user base for our free, open-data catalog. But I soon found out our real challenge was monetization.

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From Idea to Marketing: 5 Steps to take if you want to enter the medical device industry

Our Own Start-up

Anyone with a stellar idea that could benefit the medical industry can introduce the concept of a new or more efficient medical device.

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WOW Your Anxious Employees By Showing Them You Care (Here Are Nine Ways To Do So)

YoungUpstarts

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ The WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a Best Place to Work Culture “ As the pandemic churns on, your employees may be getting somewhat settled into their strange new routines. But don’t be fooled: Even as they get acclimated with Zoom meetings or working in masks, their anxiety hasn’t gone away. If anything, it’s just gone underground.

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Common Website Design Mistakes Beginners Make

YoungUpstarts

As beginners, it’s easy to jump straight into designing a website’s interface. However, working offline should be carried out first to generate a good foundation that you can build on. You can use this time to inform your web design, add more structure to simplify your design process, and articulate a clear purpose for the entire design. Of course, one crucial consideration is user experience.

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5 Questions We Asked Ourselves Before Rebranding Our Business

YoungUpstarts

by Rohan Thambrahalli , the Founder and President at UpstartWorks. As they mature, many companies find that they have outgrown their original purpose, realize they want to expand their operations, or see that their brand simply doesn’t reflect who they are anymore. With that said, rebranding is a common part of every business journey. The names BackRub or AuctionWeb may not ring a bell, but those companies turned to become the ultra-successful tycoons Google and eBay.

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A Guide To Reputation Management For Startups

YoungUpstarts

In an always-connected digital landscape, consumers have more power than ever. Now, the average consumer will compare companies before they commit to a purchase, and the right experience will see them returning again and again. Startups are uniquely placed in the online world because they have to work hard to get noticed, and being visible when competing against established brands is always going to be a challenge.