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8 Business Realities You Only Learn From Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new entrepreneur who has not spent years in corporate life has the advantage of an unbiased look at business opportunities, but at the same time has the disadvantage of missing critical business experiences that can cost them dearly in their first startup venture. In my experience, building a successful business is more difficult than building an innovative solution.

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Top 10 Ways To Find And Nurture Your Leadership Skills In The Network Marketing Business

YoungUpstarts

by Sajin Rajan, founder and director of Epixel MLM Software. Network marketing always stays ahead of any marketing business models established in the world. The only factor that diminishes its impact is the entry of “scams”, often called as pyramid schemes that make people lose their faith in network marketing. However, the prominence can be brought back with hard work, and leadership plays a key role in it.

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Xenex’s Germ-Zapping Robots Being Deployed Worldwide to Fight the Coronavirus Outbreak

SiliconHills

Coronavirus is hitting like a tsunami worldwide with 105,586 cases confirmed in more than 100 countries resulting in 3,584 confirmed deaths, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the threat of a widespread outbreak of the Coronavirus is causing governments to declare states of emergency, companies to have their workers telecommute and large […].

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Sean Glasser on the Art of Scaling a Startup

The Startup Magazine

Scaling a startup is an art. Many entrepreneurs believe that they cannot go into business without loans or seed funding from an entity that may want equity in their company. There are ways to nurture a startup company that do not require taking debt or giving equity away. Businesses that do not handle scaling up properly often fail. Sean Glasser of BLUETRACK, Inc. gives helpful hints on how to grow your fledgling business without being beholden to anyone, and how to keep it thriving under diffic

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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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6 ways to fall in your love with your work all over again

Our Own Start-up

After a point, your job might start seeming boring and monotonous because it might seem stagnant.

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The Top 3 Mistakes People Make After an Injury on the Job

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Having an accident at work can be a traumatic experience for you mentally and physically, with thoughts turning to how you will financially cope and what steps you need to take next. Accidents happen, yet many people don’t prepare for this, and this where it’s understandable that you can make errors that result in you taking away less than you deserve or want from your compensation.

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4 Ways to Keep Your Workplace Safe

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Keeping the workplace safe for your employees is certainly something you should take seriously. The health and safety is important to stop your staff making mistakes or dangers for themselves that could leave them injured or injure someone else. Here are four ways to keep the workplace safe. Health Checks for Staff. Getting health checks for your staff can be useful in making sure everyone remains fit and healthy all year around.

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A Better Boss from Day 1: 5 Tips for first-time business owners

Our Own Start-up

Starting your own business is as exciting as it is nerve-wracking.

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You Can Never Put a Price on Reliability

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Reliability is perhaps one of the most important virtues to curate in business, and also to expect from others. A business is never profitable in a day, nor is it established to make one sale. We structure our businesses to grow into operations , that is close to synthetic organisms that have structure, routine, and timekeeping might. Any good machine is reliable, and able to function for long periods of time without a vital part of its infrastructure breaking down.

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Xenex Deploys Germ-Zapping Robots Worldwide to Fight the Coronavirus Outbreak

SiliconHills

Photo courtesy of Xenex Coronavirus is hitting like a tsunami worldwide with 105,586 cases confirmed in more than 100 countries resulting in 3,584 confirmed deaths, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the threat of a widespread outbreak of the Coronavirus is causing governments to declare states of emergency, companies to have their [.].

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5 Small touches that will move your restaurant from good to great

Our Own Start-up

Owning a restaurant is no easy business, even if you serve high-quality dishes and provide an excellent dining atmosphere.

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Do You Have An Agile Social Media Policy?

The Startup Magazine

Most companies have woken up to the fact that a strong presence on modern social media platforms is a necessary part of attaining commercial success these days. Despite the fact that more companies are tapping into the power of social media than ever before, however, countless brands keep making the same silly mistakes over and over. Chief amongst these mistakes is the belief that your company can maintain a sluggish, sordid presence on popular platforms instead of needing an agile, fresh-faced

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Announcing the Version One Opportunity Fund

Version One Ventures

It has been almost 10 years since Union Square Ventures launched the first Opportunity Fund , creating a strategy that has since been copied by many other VC’s. An opportunity fund is basically a separate pool of capital that allows a VC to continue to invest in its most promising portfolio companies once the core funds have exhausted their follow-on reserves.