Wed.Aug 26, 2020

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Top Tips For Launching A Successful Start-Up

YoungUpstarts

Countless people dream of launching their own business, and in many ways, there’s never been a better time to do so. Over half a million new businesses got started per month in 2018 alone, and the advanced technologies and resources of the modern era provide so many ways for new businesses to find success, connect with customers, and build their brands.

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10 Ways to Adapt Your Marketing Strategy in a Crisis

Up and Running

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. With many brands unsure of where to turn amid the crisis, we are reminded of how important it is to have flexibility within our marketing strategies. While these strategies can be planned up to a year in advance, many efforts are no longer applicable due to the various restrictions that consumers are facing.

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New Normal: A conversation with Rich Karlgaard of Forbes Media

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs 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 up.

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How ‘No-Excuse’ Leadership Can Help Businesses Succeed After The Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

by Troy Nix , author of “ Eternal Impact: Inspire Greatness In Yourself And Others “ The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown created an uncertain future for businesses across the country. Regardless of this rocky situation, though, the best business leaders will make sure they don’t allow the pandemic to become an excuse for failure.

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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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New Normal: A conversation with Charles Phillips of RECOGNIZE

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs 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 up.

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5 Tips to Make Your Business ADA Compliant

The Startup Magazine

Ensuring that your customers are comfortable means accommodating people of all types of needs. Enacted in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) act ensures that business owners need to take some steps in making sure that their business is visitable for those on a wide scale of disabilities. To ensure that your business is ADA compliant, take into consideration all of these steps when adapting your business.

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A Corporate Guide to Relocation

The Startup Magazine

A business can operate in any environment as long as it offers solutions to the people and makes profits. Most of the time, entrepreneurs choose to relocate to a new office location due to various reasons. It could be an expansion of the business, downsize, change of operations, among other reasons. No matter the reason, it’s crucial to ensure that your relocation is of importance to your business.

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Want permanent profitability? Get Profit First

Mike Michalowicz

?. I am so pumped! To date, over 350,000 businesses worldwide have obtained permanent profitability using the Profit First system. (Insert happy dance here.). Have you read it? If not, I think it’s time…Because you want permanent profitability. And because the world needs your success right now. . Reading Profit First and applying the methodology is the most cost effective way to transform your business and drive permanent profitability. .

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NSF Awards $20 Million to UT Austin to Create the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning

SiliconHills

The National Science Foundation on Wednesday announced the selection of the University of Texas at Austin to lead the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning. UT is spearheading one of five NSF AI Institutes nationwide and each one will receive $20 million in funding. The UT NSF AI Institute for Foundations and Machine […]. The post NSF Awards $20 Million to UT Austin to Create the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Nonprofit Board of Directors Training Best Practices

Board Effect

People and passion draw people to serve on a board. Nonprofit board of director best practices will help them fulfill that role well. As prepared as most board members believe they are, their first board meeting can be a rude awakening for the work that lies ahead of them. While new board directors have a responsibility to serve according to a nonprofit’s mission, the organization has a responsibility to provide them with governance training and education to prepare them well for the job of boar

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Ignore at Your Peril! What a Lack of Health and Safety Does to a Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

While we all know health is a priority , in and out of the workplace, it’s surprising how many entrepreneurs ignore worker safety. After all, it’s something that we all think we understand but when business owners are starting out and they believe they have more important things to worry about, focusing their efforts on health and safety may seem a wasted endeavor.

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Nonprofit Board of Directors Training Best Practices

Board Effect

People and passion draw people to serve on a board. Nonprofit board of director best practices will help them fulfill that role well. As prepared as most board members believe they are, their first board meeting can be a rude awakening for the work that lies ahead of them. While new board directors have a responsibility to serve according to a nonprofit’s mission, the organization has a responsibility to provide them with governance training and education to prepare them well for the job of boar

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. "Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets.

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7 Keys To Transforming Your Invention Into A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Do you have an invention that you believe is worth a million dollars? In fact, it could be worth much more than that, if you are able to use it to kickstart a successful business. Unfortunately, many inventors I know are stuck at this stage, being great technologists, but not so great as entrepreneurs. As a result, their inventions languish and never make them a dollar.