December, 2022

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. It wasn’t always like this and frankly it took a lot of joy out of the industry for me personally. What happened? How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets?

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SAP "Business as Unusual" excerpts

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The Business as Unusual book authored by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier that we helped interview a wide range of SAP, customer and partner executives for is being released on Amazon in two weeks – see book page at [link].

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5 Keys To Satisfaction When Starting A New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic Gallup survey , job satisfaction for employees has reached an all-time low. Only 13 percent of workers are fully engaged in their job. The sad part is that it seems to be getting worse, rather than better. One alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to get satisfaction from this lifestyle.

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We’re All Playing A Game. The First Step Is Making The Rules.

YoungUpstarts

The most successful entrepreneurs are those who make moves that bring them closer to what they want — and those priorities are based on who they are rather than others’ idea of success. The post We’re All Playing A Game. The First Step Is Making The Rules. appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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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Boost Holiday Sales With Zero Budget!

Rembrandt Communications

Are you ready to have the best season yet (without spending a fortune!)? The holiday season is here, and it’s time to boost sales by year-end. But you don’t have a budget for advertising. What do you do? Follow these…. 5 Quick Tips to Boost Holiday Sales Fast (at no cost)! 1. Be creative. Instead of thinking about how you don’t have any money for advertising, think about how you can offer customers something unique that’s entertaining and helpful.

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The Five Principles Of Connected Community

YFS Magazine

YFS Magazine YFS Magazine Build a more sustainable future with these five principles to enact real social, economic, and environmental change. YFS Magazine YFS Magazine.

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SAP BAU Videos: Ch.1 - The End of Business as Usual

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The SAP Business as Unusual book by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier is being released this week. (click on badge on left to link to the Amazon page). The book relies heavily on conversations with SAP, customer, partner, research firm.

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7 Keys To Heightening Your Business Team Engagement

Startup Professionals Musings

I was shocked to read an old Gallup study that indicates only 13 percent of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work, and more recent data shows only a small change in the right direction. In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground.

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Nine Signs That You’re Draining Others (And How To Add Value Instead)

YoungUpstarts

“Sharks” are intimidating alpha personalities who do what it takes to achieve their goals, regardless of the consequences… right? Well, no. Walter Bond explains why that description actually fits parasites. Here’s what to do if you are one. The post Nine Signs That You’re Draining Others (And How To Add Value Instead) appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Gone are the days when “ innovation ” or “disruptions” were just fancy jargon thrown around without any purpose. Yesterday was the time when innovation was good and not a must-have. Gone are the days when you could overlook enterprise innovation initiatives and functions without allocating dedicated resources. Constant Digital Disruption, Innovation, and Advancement.

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5 Tips for Responsible Borrowing in Your Business

The Startup Magazine

There comes a time in every business journey when financing is the best option for growth and stability. Some business owners require financing to get started while others revisit this option regularly throughout their entrepreneurial journey. Source: Pexels.com. The key to finding success in credit and financing is to be a responsible borrower. Here are five tips for responsible borrowing in your business. 1.

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22 Things I learned in 2022

Brandanew

2022 feels like a blur to me although there were so many significant changes and growth opportunities. I intently believe that things that are harder and take us out of our comfort zones, make us grow in ways that are not very visible at the moment. . As with most remote work post-pandemic, I now think of work-life integration, not balance. There are blurred lines between work and life when it’s between the kitchen and the basement work-desk.

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Analyst Cam: Workday Verticals Planning and Analytics: Part 3 – Healthcare

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As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. We are running a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Tom Peff in Product Marketing kicked.

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7 Stages In The Evolution Of A Startup To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, I have too often seen technical entrepreneurs get a product or service off the ground with ease, but then struggle mightily when their business reaches a couple of million in annual sales, or the employee count grows beyond a handful. It’s at this stage that the job changes from creative and tactical to managerial and strategic.

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Key Factors To Consider When Hiring A B2B Market Research Company

YoungUpstarts

Hiring a B2B market research company? The primary criteria should be the B2B research company's experience and reputation. The post Key Factors To Consider When Hiring A B2B Market Research Company appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Rather than simply launching one startup, the startup studio model creates an organization whose business is launching startups. This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

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3 Key Ways to Set Yourself Apart as a Business Owner When You’re a New Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

When starting a business for the first time, it’s a good idea to set yourself up for success as well as possible. There are many ways to do this, but one worth considering is thinking about ways to set yourself apart from other new business owners and do things a little differently. Here are three key entrepreneur traits you should focus on. Be Open to Learning New Things.

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Israeli Gaming in 2023: What to Expect

VC Cafe

Earlier this month I spoke at the 2022 Israel Gaming Summit by Calcalist, Playtika and Google. The event was a get together for the Israeli ecosystem: startups, corporates, investors and academics in the gaming space. Israeli startups are mainly known for their prowess in cyber or semiconductors, but over the past few years, the country has also become a gaming powerhouse.

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Analyst Cam: Workday Verticals Planning and Analytics: Part 1 – Across Service Sectors  

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As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. Over the next few days, we will profile a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Kicking.

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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

A common pain of startups after an exhilarating first surge of early adopters is a long and frustrating plateau of slow growth, where it seems like nothing you do will get your business to profitability. Too many entrepreneurs don’t know what to do at this point, largely accounting for a disappointing 50 percent of startups that fail in the first five years, according to InvoiceTracker.

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[Infographic] 31 Quotes About Launching A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Award-winning collaboration and project management software Wrike has put together an infographic that compiled quotes from various luminaries from the startup and technology scene with advice to set startup entrepreneurs in the right direction. The post [Infographic] 31 Quotes About Launching A Startup appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Outsourcing eCommerce Business is the Best Thing for Your Company

ReadWriteStart

E-Commerce is the way of the future and has become a billion-dollar industry. But for most entrepreneurs, it’s an overwhelming task. Outsourcing your e-commerce business could help alleviate your burden, giving you more time to focus on what matters: making a profit. In this article, read about the many benefits of e-commerce outsourcing and how it could be the wisest decision for your company.

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Certifications in Construction: Boost Your Blue-Collar Profession, No Matter Where You Are

The Startup Magazine

In reality, formal training or certification is not required to find employment in the building sector. You can get your foot in the door as an apprentice and then advance your training and experience as you see fit. Construction qualifications, however, can increase your marketability and hence your salary. Either a better job prospect will present itself to you or your existing employer will reward you with a pay increase or promotion.

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NASA Awards ICON a $57.2 Million Contract to Build Structures on the Moon

SiliconHills

NASA has awarded Austin-based ICON a contract worth $57.2 to develop construction technologies that could help build habitats, landing pads, and roads on the moon. NASA is planning for long-term human exploration of the moon under Artemis. “In order to explore other worlds, we need innovative new technologies adapted to those environments and our exploration […].

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Analyst Cam: SAP S/4HANA as “next-gen” ERP

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As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Jan Gilg, President of S/4HANA Development at SAP. I invited him to.

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7 Business Culture Principles To Position For Success

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to set the culture you need for a thriving business, as well as thriving employees, customers, partners, and vendors. In fact, in my experience, cultures are very hard to change, so if you don’t get it right the first time, the road ahead will forever be difficult. “The Art of War” culture as an analogy for business doesn’t always work anymore.

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3 Smart Ways To Pay For Energy Upgrades

YoungUpstarts

Switching to green energy is one way for a socially responsible entrepreneur to reduce costs while demonstrating a commitment to the environment. The post 3 Smart Ways To Pay For Energy Upgrades appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Can Traditional Companies Act Like Start-Ups?

ReadWriteStart

Much has been made about the culture clash between older, slower, more traditional companies and younger, more dynamic, faster-moving tech start-ups. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but, generally speaking, it is very hard to reconcile the two approaches, as they are naturally in opposition to each other. The general motto among start-ups of “move fast and break things” has led to very quick yet massive successes, with some companies, Google and Amazon being the most obvious examples, gro

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Best practices for customer verification

The Startup Magazine

The internet is a great tool for business, transforming how companies interact with their customers and providing new channels to sell products, provide services, and make money. Unfortunately, the internet is also great for criminals looking to exploit businesses for their own gain. Global estimates for online payment fraud in 2022 reached $41 billion (USD) , more than double the figure from the previous year.

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Six Rules To Succeed In Life And Business – Like a Shark

YFS Magazine

YFS Magazine YFS Magazine Look to nature, where real sharks have much to teach us about becoming respected impact players in our own ecosystems. YFS Magazine YFS Magazine.

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Analyst Cam: IFS Labs – Hybrid in all its glory

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As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Bas de Vos, VP of IFS Labs I first met him at.

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7 Steps To Creating An Effective Personal Brand Today

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s been happening for some time, but business changes, accelerated by the recent pandemic, have highlighted the need for all of us to review our positions, image, and satisfaction at work. As a business consultant, I see and hear all around me people questioning their current and future career interests and growth, and wondering what they can do to make a decision and prepare.

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Top 6 Strategies For eCommerce Businesses’ Growth

YoungUpstarts

Succeed in eCommerce by attracting high-quality traffic to your online store, turning new visitors into loyal customers, and implementing the correct methods and growth strategies. The post Top 6 Strategies For eCommerce Businesses’ Growth appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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What is A/B Testing? The Complete Guide: From Beginner to Pro

ConversionXL

A/B testing splits traffic 50/50 between a control and a variation. A/B split testing is a new term for an old technique — controlled experimentation. Yet for all the content out there about it, people still test the wrong things and run A/B tests incorrectly. This guide will help you understand everything you need to get started with A/B testing. You’ll see the best ways to run tests, prioritize hypotheses, analyze results, and the best tools to experiment through A/B testing.

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How to Raise More Money for Your Nonprofit

The Startup Magazine

Some people mistakenly believe that money is less important for nonprofits than conventional organizations. But funds are just as important to a nonprofit. After all, nonprofits have operational expenses such as rent, energy bills, and salaries. If nonprofits want to attract top executives, then they must also pay competitive salaries and need the nonprofit fundraising to support it.

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Monday Motivation: DECIDE TO KEEP GOING

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great. Here are some takeaways from the video: Take responsibility for your actions. Strength starts with an undying will. Challenging yourself constantly helps you grow. Character is bred and born from constant challenges in life. Believe that the journey you are about to embark on is a winnable course of action.