June, 2020

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7 Startup Leadership Keys To Ramp Up Team Commitment

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. But fortunately, team building is a skill that can be learned and practiced, for those willing to put in some effort.

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Things To Consider When Choosing Ringless Voicemail Providers

YoungUpstarts

Ringless voicemail or voicemail drop is a way of delivering voice messages to other people without even calling or ringing their phones. This method is often used by businesses to send voice messages to their prospects, clients, and customers without interrupting them. To put it simply, ringless voicemail is a type of software that allows you to send pre-recorded messages to other people’s phone voicemail.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. At the end of the quarter each of the eight teams give a final “Lessons Learned” presentation. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Many myths surround the subject of startup funding. Here is Startup Funding, a Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs. Pre-Requisites of Funding. Gone are the days where you can get funded based on an idea. To secure your funding, you must establish the feasibility of your idea through proper planning and implementation.

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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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Why Email Automation is a Must For Your E-commerce Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Email marketing is one of the most popular channels of communication and information exchange. It can be deciphered from the fact that the number of emails sent and received per day is expected to reach a whopping 347 billion in 2023. Much can be attributed to marketing automation. In addition, do you know you can get a return of $44 for every $1 spent on an email?

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Enterprise SEO: Don’t Outsmart—Out Execute

ConversionXL

Enterprise SEO has been my topic of choice for extracurricular “thought leadership” over the years. Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. While my presentation focused on the in-house side of enterprise SEO, I’ve also experienced (and written about ) getting things done—or trying to get things done—at an agency.

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How To Get An Instant Payday Loan Online?

YoungUpstarts

People take out a loan to fulfill an urgent need for money. The problem is that with most traditional loans, it usually takes time before the funds get into the borrower’s hands. Fortunately, loan applications can now be made online. Even without personally visiting a lender, one can be approved for some fast cash to pay the bills. One good example are instant payday loans online.

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10 Proven Ways to Grow Your Small Business

Up and Running

Getting your business off the ground is challenging. Continuing to grow your business once it’s established is just as difficult. And while generating new business and growing your customer base is necessary to succeed, it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes effective planning, strategy, and the willingness to get creative. If your sales have recently hit a plateau, check out these 10 proven methods to continue growing your business. 1.

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New Niches for Startups Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

Remote work and social distancing. These two approaches will define our lives behind 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has put everyone into a new reality. The transition from our traditional lifestyle to isolation mode was anything but smooth. The whole world had to learn how to work and learn remotely and organize their leisure without leaving their homes.

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Top Reasons To Improve Your Website Design

The Startup Magazine

If your website is starting to look dated or you find yourself wondering why your traffic is stagnant no matter how hard you work at your digital ad campaigns, it might be time for a reboot. Redesigning a website is a great way to drum up some new traffic, encourage users to give your new page a look, and re-establish yourself with the major search engines after an overhaul.

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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

Today we’re excited to announce that we led DemandStar ’s $2m seed round. The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency. $1.5 trillion is spent in the local government procurement market, but billions are wasted due to scarce competition and outdated processes.

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9 Different Approaches For Motivating A Startup Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. For new entrepreneurs, leadership development efforts may be more valuable for achieving startup success than business skills development.

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15 Proven Business Ideas To Make Money Online

YoungUpstarts

Starting an online business is less risky than investing your money into a downtown office or a brick-and-mortar storefront. All you need is just an internet connection & some ABCs of what you want to do! And in some cases, only the internet connection is enough to start making money. One benefit of starting a business online is that you can reach out to more potential customers as your business is based online.

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How to Improve Cash Flow

Up and Running

Keeping an eye on your cash flow is vital for maintaining the health of your business. Without positive cash flow, or real cash flowing into your business regularly, you’re at risk of experiencing crippling cash flow problems. In fact, poor cash flow is a big reason why one in every four businesses won’t survive its first year, and why more than half of businesses don’t survive past the fifth.

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How Entrepreneurial Planning Helps You Have Smoother Sailing

ReadWriteStart

Being an entrepreneur is a state of mind, way of living. To get started in business, you have to be rigorous and have proper methods. Even if working in entrepreneurship is not what you might call entertainment — passion is essential. Be your own ally, and make your motivation and passion the main engine of your business. Here is how entrepreneurial planning helps you have smoother sailing.

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Terry Giancroce Explains Why Consultancy Works: Understanding Your Business Workflow

The Startup Magazine

There are many factors that make or break a business. Whether external or internal, these factors should be evaluated and understood both from an owner’s viewpoint and an expert’s opinion as well. Mentorship has proven to be one of the most powerful tools that any business owner can have, especially if they are new to the journey of being an entrepreneur.

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How to Build a Business as an Introvert

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Build a Business as an Introvert written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Kim Beasley. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Kim Beasley. Early in life, Kim believed that making a difference in the lives of others was very important. Even when she experienced hardships in her life, she determined that these hardships wouldn’t stop her from achieving her dreams of creating a business.

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5 Reasons Two Founders As A Team Are Better Than One

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea. Thus, unless the visionary highlights a cofounder who can take the vision and execute, I assume the worst.

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Want To Know What To Sell Online? See Top Selling Items On Amazon

YoungUpstarts

Amazon is a massive marketplace that offers zillions of goods in different types of categories. From toys and stationery to floor steamers and automotive parts, you can offer or buy anything on this platform, no wonder it is the biggest online retailer. However, before you launch an item, you should consider if it something the consumers want so that you can earn high income through it.

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15 Entrepreneurs Describe Their Leadership Styles

Hearpreneur

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Working environments differ thus requires the leader to master the best style that works in that business. For instance, an authoritative style may not suit a business in its initial stages of development. Here’s how entrepreneurs and business owners lead their teams; #1- Leading from the front.

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New Niches for Startups Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

Remote work and social distancing. These two approaches will define our lives behind 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has put everyone into a new reality. The transition from our traditional lifestyle to isolation mode was anything but smooth. The whole world had to learn how to work and learn remotely and organize their leisure without leaving their homes.

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How can a marketing consultant help your law firm?

The Startup Magazine

Even the most talented firms that have won awards can get stuck when it comes to growing their firm both digitally and physically. While being excellent lawyers is one skillset, getting the word out about how great you are is a completely different one. While you might feel that getting the word out is easy, it requires an entirely different marketing “mind” and skillset to generate lasting and sustainable growth for your business over the course of years.

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What Are the Risks of Using Personal Email for Board Business?

Board Effect

Despite everything going on in the world, there’s been no slowdown in cyberattacks. The increase in the complexity and sophistication of cyberattacks continues to plague cybersecurity experts. If your company hasn’t been victimized by a data breach, it could be that it’s only a matter of time before you will be. Cybercriminals have found many different ways to enter your system.

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Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur?

Duct Tape Marketing

Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Gino Wickman. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Gino Wickman author of Entrepreneurial Leap: Do you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur? Gino has been an entrepreneur since the age of 21, he has had an obsession for learning what makes businesses and entrepreneurs thrive.

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How To Properly Record Your Business’ Finances

YoungUpstarts

Keeping track of your business’ finances will help you manage them effectively. However, not all business owners have a knack with numbers. According to Preferred CFO, 82% of businesses fail due to a lack of cash flow management skills and poor financial management in general. To address this issue, some business owners need to understand and record finances on their own.

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New Normal: A conversation with Seth Ravin of Rimini Street

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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5 Post-Pandemic Changes to Expect in the Workplace

ReadWriteStart

Disrupting businesses in every sector of the economy and infecting nearly 7 million people at the time of this writing — with 400,000 deaths globally. The coronavirus pandemic that sprung up December 2019 has had negative effects on businesses across the world , and the economy as a whole. The stay-at-home orders that have been mandatory in several countries have caused our work lives to be affected in so many ways, from working in open offices and interacting with coworkers daily to worki

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Could Bitcoin Replace Cash?

The Startup Magazine

J. K. Rowling while responding to a tweet for CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen, tweeted : “I don’t understand bitcoin. Please explain it to me.” She sparked a debate that would last on Twitter for no less than 4 hours. Most probably, she was not aware that there is a crypto community on Twitter who tweet about bitcoin and cryptocurrency almost every day, and can’t wait for opportunities such as this to show their arguments why crypto is good for the world.

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Rising out of the Crisis: Where to Find New Markets and Customers

Steve Blank

The pandemic has upended the business models of most startups and existing companies. As the economy reopens companies are finding that customers may have disappeared or that their spending behavior has changed. Suppliers are going out of business or requiring cash-up-front terms. Accounts receivables are stretching way out. Revenue models and forecasts are no longer valid.

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How to Embrace a Competitors Mindset to Grow Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Embrace a Competitors Mindset to Grow Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jake Thompson. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jake Thompson Chief Encouragement Officer at Compete Every Day. Through Jake’s experience as an athlete, entrepreneur, and speaker, he has learned how we can be move closer to the career, health, and life we desire by changing just a few of our choices each day.

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Why Animated Video Is The Way To Go In This Pandemic Era

YoungUpstarts

The world as we know it has irrevocably changed after 31 st December 2019. The novel coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) quickly spread throughout the world, infecting almost 7.9 million people, and claiming 435000+ lives so far. There is no vaccine yet. There is no definite cure yet. The only way to manage this disease is by prevention through the practice of social distancing.

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7 Ways Your Day-To-Day Routine Drives Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the young entrepreneurs I know are classic proof of the old adage that people tend to overestimate what they can do in a short period, and underestimate what they can do over a long period. They become frustrated when they are unable to build their startup over a weekend, and give up way too soon when the path to real success seems to be interminable.

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New Normal: A conversation with Bob Stutz of SAP

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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4 Best Marketing Automation Tools

The Startup Magazine

Businesses need to effectively market their products and content if they want to gain more customers and spread their brand. However, marketing can pose many problems, so finding the best marketing automation tools for your business can help you out. If you don’t know which automation tools to pick, then we have some online tools suggestions for you to consider.

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Soft Skills You Need to Develop as a Remote Entrepreneur

Transformify

Working from home started as a privilege only very few could indulge in. As the market grew and evolved, it became a benefit for many companies and entrepreneurs. At some point, it became a choice that every employee, or even boss, was able to make, with some opting for a mix. For example, some prefer a few days in the office for face-to-face meetings and interviews, and the rest of the week at home for reports, research, and creativity.

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Is Entrepreneurship in Your DNA?

Duct Tape Marketing

Is Entrepreneurship in Your DNA? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Sydni Craig-Hart. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Sydni Craig-Hart CEO and Co-Founder of Smart Simple Marketing, an award-winning content marketing consultancy. Smart Simple Marketing helps B2SMB marketing professionals gain market share, drive engagement and deepen loyalty with small businesses, women business entrepreneurs and minority business entr