The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Understanding the Role of a Freight Broker The role of a freight broker is integral to the logistics and transportation industries. Acting as the bridge between shippers and carriers, freight brokers ensure that goods are moved efficiently and cost-effectively. This entails negotiating shipping rates, tracking consignments, and addressing the needs and concerns of clients and carriers alike.
Board Effect
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Imagine showing up a board meeting where there is no agenda. What are the topics of consideration? What will the members be voting on? How many items will be discussed? Will the meeting go on late into the evening? Without an agenda, confusion would reign An agenda is an essential tool of board governance. It is a formal document that gives shape and structure to meetings.
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VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
A new report collated by F2 Capital and derived from a survey of 25 early-stage VCs in Israel (including our input at Remagine Ventures ), analysed investment trends for pre-seed in 2024 and reviewed the expectations for 2025. The report highlighted the resilience of Israeli startups despite the geopolitical challenges and shared the curret sentiment on trends in pre-seed deals.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Low Budget, Big Impact: Crafting Video Ads with Humor written by Jarret Redding read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Emily McGregor In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Emily McGregor, founder of Penguin Cat Creative , a copywriting agency specializing in high-converting marketing funnels and campaigns.
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
NZ Entrepreneur
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
By adopting simplicity as part of your leadership framework, you can improve practice performance without adding more complexity to your employees lives. Overcomplicating things is a natural tendency for many business leaders. Executives and founders are usually intelligent, ambitious people. They dont want to do less; theyre hard-wired to do more. However, many can forget theyre not working alone.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, launching an online business has become an attractive option for aspiring entrepreneurs. However, the path to success in the digital realm requires careful planning and consideration of various factors. This blog post outlines a business checklist for entrepreneurs with plans to earn digital money , covering essential aspects that can make or break your online venture.
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Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
I expect that you have a story about how insurance saved you lots of money in your past. And of course, thats the purpose of paying for policies when you think youll never need them. So, here comes the fact: Business insurance is one of the more poorly managed mitigations of risk in small and many medium sized corporations, often because of failure to assign the responsibility to an individual or department, and sometimes just from the willingness to bet against the event and save cash.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The original version of this newsletter was published on LinkedIn. Sign up to get the next version in your inbox. The word “Firgun” (Hebrew: ??????/ pronounced ‘feer-goon’) is an informal modern Hebrew term and concept in Israeli culture (originally Yiddish), which describes genuine, unselfish delight or pride in the accomplishment of the other person.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
How to Attract Your Ideal Customers with the Right Brand Archetype written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Jane McCarthy In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , Sara Nay steps in as host to interview Jane McCarthy, a seasoned brand strategist and author of The Goddess Guide to Branding.
Board Effect
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Overseeing a nonprofit’s finances isn’t easy. You focus on every penny, making sure costs stay within budget. But what about those costs that don’t fit neatly into a budget line? That’s where many nonprofits trip up. Planning for non-budget items is crucial for financial stability. It’s the unplanned repairs, unexpected fees and sudden needs that can throw you off course.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
An essential part of owning a construction business is staying on budget. While there are challenges for a business owner in this industry, creating and maintaining a better budget is possible. These tips can help you do so. Why Construction Budgeting Is Difficult Before getting to the suggestions, lets start by pointing out the potential problems when it comes to keeping a budget on construction projects.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is one of the most powerful tools in the United Kingdom for driving desired traffic, lead generation, and increasing conversion rates for all businesses. It means you only pay for leads that click your ad which sounds perfect, right? And it should be, but without the right strategies, your business could be wasting valuable click budget on leads that do not convert.
Brandanew
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Childrens books have the power to teach young readers about love, acceptance, and embracing differences. These three South-Asian stories celebrate love in its many formsbetween family, friends, and oneself. All while promoting themes of self-acceptance, love and inclusion.This post is written by Peerbaghs editorial assistant, Diksha Sharma. 1. Laxmis Mooch Shelly Anand Self-love and […] The post 3 South Asian Childrens Stories About Love And Inclusion appeared first on Peerbagh.
NZ Entrepreneur
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Who: Magnify Consulting What: Sales strategy, CRM, outsourced, tradeshows NZ HQ: Wellington Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? At Magnify, we help founders of SMEs to grow a healthy sales pipeline without the risk of hiring. Magnify is a full-service sales agency sales strategy + sales process, CRM set up (HubSpot), sales training + coaching, outsourced sales + business development, trade shows, trade fairs, expos + events.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
“ Has quitting culture now crossed into Founder CEOs? ” SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin thinks it might have after observing some CEOs just plain up and abandon their startups, even after raising large sums of capital. What’s my take? I’ve had some experiences, in both my time as an angel and as a VC, where I do believe the CEO ‘quit’ – which I’ll define as gave up too early primarily because of their own lack of fight or incentive.
Board Effect
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
How to strengthen volunteer board communication Effective communication is the cornerstone of a successful board, particularly for volunteer boards where engagement and trust are paramount. Ellen Glasgow, Managing Director for Mission-Driven Organizations at Diligent shares five strategies for building strong volunteer board communications. These strategies, including active listening and fostering a culture of trust, are essential for enhancing board member engagement and organizational perform
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Managing a business is a tough thing to do. You have a lot of people that youre responsible for and a lot of clients that you are talking to and working with. Running your business is going to take a lot of time, effort and in some cases, money, so having a legal team there to advise you is so important. Business lawyers have knowledge of the law and they have the training to handle your business needs – all of them.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
With the growing popularity of mobile healthcare services, starting a mobile IV therapy business can be a lucrative opportunity. Below, we aim to guide you through essential tips and considerations to ensure your business succeeds in this burgeoning industry. The mobile IV therapy sector presents a unique chance for entrepreneurs to meet increasing consumer demand for convenient healthcare solutions. 1.
Rembrandt Communications
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
Its time to enjoy a competitive edge you cant get any other way! Are you using the power of PR, or public relations, to boost sales, awareness and credibility right now? I ask, because when you appear in the media, influential people and publications talk about you and your products and services. Its not advertising. Its third-party credibility you cant get any other way.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Use stock options and warrants to pay for service only rarely. Earlier, I stated that stock options are the currency of early-stage business. This truth is obvious when a start-up has no cash. So, we will assume a business is perhaps well beyond start-up and growing, but that cash is tight, used for growth and for working capital as earned. There are times when services of others are available for stock instead of – or in addition to cash.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
First, a piece of literary history. The phrase needle in a haystack is commonly credited to the book Don Quixote from the early 1600s (“needle is a bottle of hay”) but there’s also a Fujian proverb “To dive into the sea, to feel for a needle” that is thought to be even older and gets to the same point. The idea that it’s nearly fruitless to blindly search for a single small object when it’s located in a vast container.
Board Effect
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Imagine this scenario: Arguments among board members are creating turbulence for a nonprofit board. The tension is causing some members to consider quitting. The source of the conflict is intense disagreement about the boards mission. The chairperson pushes for a high-profile gala to attract wealthy donors, arguing that increased funding will secure the nonprofits future.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
Regardless of your industry, making your capital work harder should be on your list of goals for 2025. After all, the financial outcomes are the only barometer of success that truly matters. By unlocking greater efficiency through reduced financial waste, you stand to see huge rewards. Even if you think it is already a tight ship, there is always room for improvement.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The Role of Registered Investment Advisors: More Than Just Money Management Decoding the RIA Title: What Sets Them Apart? Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) play a vital role in the financial ecosystem, offering services beyond portfolio management. Understanding what distinguishes an RIA from other financial professionals is essential for investors seeking knowledgeable guidance.
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Female founders of consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies sharedtheir entrepreneurial journeys during a panel discussion recently, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in building consumer brands from the ground up. The panel, moderated by Michelle Breyer, chief marketing officer of SKU, Austin’s CPG accelerator, featured Sarah Vilenskiy of Blossom Essentials, Ruth Stedman of A Pup Above, […] The post Austin Female Founders Share Hard-Won Lessons in CPG Success appeared fir
deal architect
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
I was chuckling to myself as I was watching SAPs "Unleashed" presentation last week. I kept getting flashbacks of the SNL skit from the 2000 More Cowbell featuring Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon and others (see video below). It.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Sometimes I write a post just to be able to send the URL to people when they ask me a specific question. This one is “what advice do you have for someone who is a new VC analyst or wants to join a firm at that level?” If you’re joining a venture capital firm as a junior professional I’d recommend against being a generalist, or trying to get good at everything.
Gust
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
In the turbulent journey of entrepreneurship, dealing with taxes seems the furthest of priorities, however, understandingjustenough of the intricacies of taxes and accounting can save you a lot of hassle and money. In Q1 we do a lot of extra programming around tax and compliance to help founders find the balance between preparedness and growing the business.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Theres a lot that goes into running a business. While you should be proud of yourself for getting to where you are today, its also wise to realize that theres a lot of hard work that still lies in front of you. The good news is that when youre first getting going you mostly have a blank slate in front of you to work with. With the right approach and elements in place, you can thrive and achieve your career goals.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Author: Salvador Ordorica, CEO, The Spanish Group Theres a staggering $115 trillion of global opportunity in 2025. And international expansion is seen as key for long-term growth, according to WellsFargo , with emerging markets providing the greatest opportunities.” Source: Pixabay Branching out into another community or state can be daunting, let alone going outside of the U.S.
NZ Entrepreneur
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Has your sales cycle lengthened? Youre not alone. Rocky economies, hybrid work arrangements, and complex internal issues means more buyers find it harder than ever to reach a decision. More decision-makers, more options, and more risk-aversion. Add seasonal peaks and troughs. Its no wonder opportunities stall, and buyers refuse to budge. So, how can you increase the speed of money into your business bank account?
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Women entrepreneurs continue to face significant systemic barriers in accessing capital and building businesses, despite making up 40% of business owners, according to a panel of prominent female business leaders and investors at a recent Female Founders Outlook event. Carla McDonald, founder of Dynabrand Ventures and Chair of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson’s Task Force for […] The post Female Founders Get 1% of Austin VC Dollars, Leaders Seek Change appeared first on SiliconHills.
Hearpreneur
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great.
Mike Michalowicz
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they dont want to. – Richard Branson Once you’ve hired the right person, it’s time to set them up for success. This is more than just showing them where the coffee machine is. It’s about immersing them in your company culture, aligning them with your mission, and ensuring they hit the ground running.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Is your firm feeling like Two VCs enter, one must leave given the limited number of partnership slots? It doesnt have to be that way. Venture Capital Is a Team Sport: Navigating the Partner Track with a Collaborative Mindset I was talking to one of my VC coaching clients a recently promoted young principal at a firm that's likely to raise a much bigger fund next time around.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Understanding the basics of business law is crucial for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Compliance with regulations and laws can prevent legal issues that could slow down or even shut down a business. Adam Malone , an experienced medical malpractice lawyer in Atlanta , shares an overview of some key areas of business law that entrepreneurs should be familiar with.
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