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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just completed the seventh week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

79% of consumers trust an online review as much as they would a recommendation from a friend. And 94% of shoppers state that just one bad review has convinced them not to buy from a company. Reputation management is the practice of actively influencing what people think of your brand and what they see others saying about your company when they look online.

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The Benefits of Using SMS online

The Startup Magazine

As technology has grown and evolved around our society, communication has become easier and more accessible than ever. Unfortunately, even with the quick accessibility of most communication methods, sometimes communicating the right message isn’t so easy. Sometimes streamlining communications is the most effective means to open up communication channels, prevent misunderstanding, and create better understanding.

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Sorting Out the Confusion with Nonprofit Classifications: 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(6)

Board Effect

It’s common for people to use the term nonprofit loosely without really understanding what it means, which leads to confusion about a 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4), vs. 501(c)(6). The terms nonprofit and not-for-profit are umbrella terms for federal classifications of tax-exempt organizations. While 501(c)(3) is the most common nonprofit designation, the IRS lists 29 different tax-exempt organizations, each with its own set of rules.

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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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21 Entrepreneurs Explain The Role A Coach Plays in Their Business

Hearpreneur

Business coaches are instrumental people in the start and growth of one’s business. Right from writing your story, attracting/retaining clients and the survival of your business. They can help sharpen your skills and take up a lot more roles. Many entrepreneurs attribute their success to the mere factor that they had a business coach guide them through the process.

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Unit4 pioneers the “hybrid analyst summit”

deal architect

Since Workday held its first Analyst Summit in 2010 - I had called their effort exhilarating - I have encouraged vendors to adopt a similar format. User Conferences are more for customers - I find analysts intrude on their time.

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How And Where To Connect To The Entrepreneur Universe

Startup Professionals Musings

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. But what if you are an introvert, or new to this game, and don’t know where or how to start? The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking.

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How To Turn Your Agency Into A Profitability Machine

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Turn Your Agency Into A Profitability Machine written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here !

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just completed the eighth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power.

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Work-Related Hearing Loss: 3 Things To Know

YoungUpstarts

Experiencing loud noises at the workplace? Here are some of the things that you have to know about work-related hearing loss. . The post Work-Related Hearing Loss: 3 Things To Know appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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6 Ways To Expand Your Thinking To The Next Big Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the startup investors I know are disappointed that so few of the startup ideas they see are really innovative or disruptive. Most of us are incremental or linear thinkers , and we miss the really big opportunities, like the next smartphone or space travel. That ability to “ see around the next corner ” seems to be limited to a very few entrepreneurs, such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.

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What Does Your Startups Mean to You?

View from Seed

I was doing a virtual AMA with a terrific group of underrepresented founders from Visible Hands last week and the conversation turned a little personal. We were talking a bit about the challenges of building a startup and how to persist and maintain a productive outlook in the face of setbacks. I reflected a little on my own experience as well as on the experience of the hundreds of founders we have backed at NextView.

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5 Ways To Find Your Brand Voice On TikTok

The Startup Magazine

If you watched the news during the past 18 months (and, let ’ s face it, most of us had very little choice), you will, of course, be aware of the social platform TikTok. Since its launch in 2016, TikTok has amassed a staggering one billion users worldwide. With the brand rarely out of the headlines during the pandemic, you ’ d be forgiven for thinking that the platform is the domain of school children and attention seeking celebs but, this is far from the case.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Use Empathy To Increase Employee Job Satisfaction

YoungUpstarts

Kathleen Quinn Votaw shares some tips on how leaders can lead with empathy and enhance the employee job satisfaction. The post 5 Ways Leaders Can Use Empathy To Increase Employee Job Satisfaction appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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10 Ways to Ensure Creative Ideas and Results at Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Creativity in business is the key to innovation, and in this era of rapid change, can mean the difference between your long-term business success and failure. Unfortunately, in my role as a business advisor, I still find too many owners who fall into the rut of rejecting creativity to minimize change and keep costs down. They don’t realize that it may be keeping revenues down as well.

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How to Leverage eCommerce Fulfillment as a Customer Service Tool

Up and Running

Did you, as an eCommerce store owner, know that for online retailers, the average cost to fulfill an order is about 70% of the average order value ? Shocking, right? After all, there is hardly time to calculate and reach this figure. Especially when you’re busy managing several large and small functionalities that form just a part of the entire selling process.

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Why Virtual Bookkeeping Will Save your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Starting a business involves a lot of work and planning. You need to have an idea, a realistic business plan, and build your team. One of the positions you will need to fill is that of the bookkeeper. You can hire someone to your team, do it yourself, or hire a third party virtual bookkeeper. . The thing is, if you try to do it yourself, it can take you away from everything else you need to do for your business.

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4 Lessons Learned From Successful Sports Negotiations And Contracts

YoungUpstarts

There are lessons that we can draw from high-dollar public sports negotiations that can be applied to our business transactions and career. The post 4 Lessons Learned From Successful Sports Negotiations And Contracts appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Don’t Let Daily Business Challenges Turn You Negative

Startup Professionals Musings

A “downer” is defined here as someone who seems to dwell on the negatives of every business challenge, and loves to highlight bad news or potential problems. No matter how smart or experienced this person may otherwise be, things must change or they will kill your startup. I’m not talking about someone who has an occasional bad day, but rather people who when asked, “How are things?

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Smithsonian’s FUTURES Exhibit Features Austin-based Hypergiant’s Eos Bioreactor

SiliconHills

The Smithsonian’s FUTURES exhibit opened Saturday featuring Austin-based Hypergiant’s innovation. Hypergiant’s Eos Bioreactor, a machine that uses artificial intelligence and algae growth to pull carbon from the atmosphere to provide clean air, is on display as part of the exhibit which features some of the world’s most unique and world-changing innovations.

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How Can I Successfully Grow My Business?

The Startup Magazine

When you first start up your business venture, you may not have stopped to think about where you might be in a year, or even in a few months. While it can be a good idea to focus on getting your company up and running, you may want to consider some of the plans that could be put into place should you meet with success. This can help you to continue growing your brand, and even widen the number of clients who you serve.

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What’s A Company Name Really Worth?

YoungUpstarts

Top brand consultancies and naming agencies charge five- or even six-digit fees to develop company names. What’s behind those price tags, and what’s a less expensive approach to finding the perfect name for your company? The post What’s A Company Name Really Worth? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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‘Entrepreneur In Residence’ Used To Be One Of Silicon Valley’s Most Prestigious Titles. Now It’s Dead.

Hunter Walker

Buying Talent Is More Attractive Than Renting In Today’s Competitive Venture Market. Imagine getting paid a solid salary to sit around and think up new startup ideas, distracted only by the free food and opportunities to sit in on discussions of the latest, hottest technologies. Well, if you were an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at one of the large Silicon Valley venture firms during the last few decades, that was your gig.

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Uplevyl, a Women’s Empowerment and Networking Platform, Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

Uplevyl, an Austin-based tech company that makes an app and digital platform geared to professional women, launched last Tuesday. Shubhi Bhonsle-Rao, Uplevyl’s founder and CEO, is a former senior executive with Alphabet, Tesco, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ford Motor Company, among others. She also sits on the board of directors of Open Lending, Center for Global Development, […].

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Top Tips to Give Your Startup a Boost

The Startup Magazine

Getting your startup business off the ground and running is an achievement in itself, and you now have the foundations to build on to make it even more successful. This may entail changing your plans slightly, and you are going to need to keep working as hard as you did at the beginning. However, this hard work will pay off and you will be on the path to success with your startup launch.

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3 Ways To Take Your Company From Product-Focused To Customer-Centric

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Debbie Qaqish, ForbesBook author of “From Backroom To Boardroom: Earn Your Seat With Strategic Marketing Operations” and Partner/Chief Strategy Officer of The Pedowitz Group Companies that focus on being customer-centric can position themselves better for success than companies that don’t. Research shows that customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable, people will spend 17% more for a […].

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What Do I Have To Do To Start Learning Email Marketing?

Our Own Start-up

Want to generate quality leads within conscious time? Start learning the email marketing strategies and use them to create high-quality potential sales leads. The post What Do I Have To Do To Start Learning Email Marketing? first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Ten Austin Companies Make Deloitte’s North America Technology Fast 500 List

SiliconHills

Ten Austin-based companies made Deloitte’s “North America Technology Fast 500,” an annual ranking of the fastest-growing North American companies in the technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech sectors. The highest-ranking Austin-based company, Shipwell claimed the fourth spot on the list with 32,670 percent growth from 2017 to 2020.

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5 Tips For an Effective AVOD Advertising Strategy

The Startup Magazine

With the lockdowns that were experienced in 2020, a number of people were left sitting at home looking for entertainment and shopping online. Since then, this model has been maintained as customers realize that shopping from home is easier and more convenient. It also means that marketing strategies such as AVOD (Ad-Based Video on Demand) can have a greater impact.

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How To Help Employees Look Forward To Monday In A Hybrid Working World

YoungUpstarts

Adam Witty shares four steps for creating such a customer-centric company culture in a hybrid working world. The post How To Help Employees Look Forward To Monday In A Hybrid Working World appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Why An Italian Investor Visa Makes A Great Immigration Option

Our Own Start-up

Let us explain why an Italian investor visa is an excellent way to land in the country of your dreams. The post Why An Italian Investor Visa Makes A Great Immigration Option first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Sara Mauskopf, Co-Founder & CEO of Winnie.com, Childcare Provider Marketplace, Raises $15.5 Million In Funding (VC EP21)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Sara Mauskopf is the co-founder and CEO of Winnie.com, a marketplace platform that connects parents looking for childcare and preschool providers with over 250,000 centres around the USA. To date, Sara and her team have raised $15.5 Million in venture funding over three rounds, with the most recent $9 million series being led by Rethink […]. The post Sara Mauskopf, Co-Founder & CEO of Winnie.com, Childcare Provider Marketplace, Raises $15.5 Million In Funding (VC EP21) appeared first

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Tips and Tricks for Living Luxuriously Without Spending a Fortune

The Startup Magazine

Yes, it would be amazing to have insane amounts of money at your disposal. Wanting to live luxuriously is nothing to be ashamed of and it’s something many people strive for. However, that lifestyle is simply not the reality for most of us entrepreneurs. Fortunately, there are some tricks that can bring you closer to that opulence you’re longing for, even if you don’t feel like you can afford it.

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How Trading Apps Make Stock Trading And Investments More Accessible

YoungUpstarts

Stock trading apps allow anyone and everyone who has a bank account and a smartphone to be able to purchase any stock they want. The post How Trading Apps Make Stock Trading And Investments More Accessible appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Blame Me For YouTube’s ‘Dislike’ Option. But Now I’m Glad They’re Removing It.

Hunter Walker

In 2010, It Almost Disappeared But Then I Put My, Err, Thumb On The Scale. “This isn’t Disneyland,” I insisted while challenging our team’s recommendation that we remove the Thumbs Down (Dislike) button off the YouTube Watch Page during its 2010 redesign. “We’re. Not. Hulu.”. The Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down feedback options had already replaced YouTube’s Original Five Star rating system.

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How to End Business Emails Professionally With Examples

Up and Running

Your inbox is overwhelming, yet day after day you put in the hard work to write solid emails. Then you get to the end—and the panic sets in. How the heck are you supposed to figure out the best sign-off for your casual (or formal) business emails? Now, it’s important that when sending employment or business-related email messages that you end your message professionally.

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