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Quick Ways For Businesses To Motivate Staff

YoungUpstarts

Understanding how to motivate your staff is an essential focus of any human resources manager. You may have worked hard to hire the best talent in the field, but now you are tasked with keeping them at the company and getting the most from them. Obviously, money and benefits packages are one of the ways to motivate staff. A survey of professionals ranked this highest of all other factors.

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8 Strategies To Optimize Your Business Pace Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs and startups are big believers in innovation, but sometimes they forget that innovation must be continual to assure long-term success, rather than the one big-bang idea that initiated their journey. By default, innovation in every business decreases over time, and continuous innovation requires ongoing initiatives and measures of customer perceived value.

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Business Masters vs MBA, What’s the Difference

The Startup Magazine

Thinking about going for higher education in business, no doubt you’ve come across two different routes in your research, a Business Masters and a Business MBA. For either, enhancing your entrepreneurship skills will improve your chances of your startup’s success. In this post, we will talk about the difference between these two business education paths and help you decide which to choose.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

On the topic of ecommerce, one wonders to what extent this business model is applicable, and where is it likely to end? This is the prime question that goes through most online retailers, entrepreneurs today. It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world. Some of the many ecommerce examples include Alibaba, Newegg, Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Target.

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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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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

With technology growing more rapidly than ever, companies in all industries find themselves primarily focused on staying ahead of the curb. In the hustle and bustle of remaining state-of-the-art, it’s common to lose sight of specific aspects of a business. Even though those facets of an organization are just as vital as the latest and greatest app. For example, there are far too many companies that fail to implement a detailed onboarding process.

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What Is a Governance Model and Why Does it Matter?

Board Effect

The concept of governance is difficult to define in a sentence or two because it’s an intangible thing. It’s not something that we can see or touch. It’s a system that has a basic structure that serves as the foundation and support for all of its many parts. A governance model serves as a representation of the many possible ways that a governance system could work if you were to change one or more of its parts.

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Grow Your Business With the Right Mix of Strategy and Culture

Up and Running

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” . There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Regardless, the quote is used extensively these days to emphasize the importance of how a company operates over the why. Yet it’s not an entirely accurate statement, because without a clear strategy—a plan that outlines the why and the what an organization wishes to achieve, it’s almost impossible the define the how that’s required

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Your Company Can Either Lead Sustainability Efforts Or Get Out Of The Way

YoungUpstarts

by Dan Lauer , founding executive director of UMSL Accelerate. Change is unavoidable in business. When Netflix began streaming media directly to customers in 2007, it changed the face of home entertainment. When Uber coordinated its first ride in San Francisco in 2010, it changed the transportation game. Change is constant, and one of the biggest change-drivers facing business leaders at the moment is sustainability.

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9 Entrepreneurs Share Their Biggest Business Fails and How They Rebounded

Hearpreneur

Business fails are the best form of learning. Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. Whichever path works best for you, you’ve got to be comfortable with failure and most importantly learn how to improve or deal with it.

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Why Douglas Healy Believes Renewable Energy Companies Are Jumping the Gun

The Startup Magazine

In their quest to grow economies and workforces, countries need a steady supply of affordable electric energy. That formula, along with stable economic policies, helps nations add to their GDP rapidly. The method works around the world, and one of the best examples of the benefits of a stable power grid is on display in the U.S., primarily due to the expansion of renewable energy sources.

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Stoplight Raises $6 Million in Additional Funding

SiliconHills

Stoplight, which manages application development software for companies, announced this week that it has raised $6 million in additional funding. The Austin-based startup closed its Series A round of funding co-led by Next Coast Ventures and Bill Wood Ventures. To date, Stoplight has raised $10 million. The company plans to use the funding for engineering, […].

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How To Use Affiliate Marketing To Boost Sales At Your Young Company

YoungUpstarts

When you are running a new and small business you need to make sales and quickly to avoid running out of steam. You need regular loyal customers and new customers to get there. However, it can be incredibly hard to really make tracks in the business world. Most small businesses seem to struggle to do this. However, there is a way you can generate sales to help your young company succeed – affiliate marketing.

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Top 5 Ways to Improve Board Culture for Your Organization

Board Effect

A board’s culture is reflected in the traditions and habits that boards develop over time that set the standard for the way that board directors think and act. Good governance suggests that boards should enjoy a sense of mutual respect and collegiality. Culture is a fluid concept that grows and changes with time. Healthy, productive boards strive to achieve a strong and connected board culture.

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Warehousing and Manufacturing Safety: Using Lift Tables

The Startup Magazine

Electric lift tables are significant gear pieces of equipment in modern day production lines, plants and stockrooms. Lift tables extraordinarily increment specialist efficiency while fundamentally decreasing worker wounds. Utilizing scissor-lift work tables is a success for each organization, and utilizing a lift table securely is the way in to that achievement of workplace safety.

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Are Tech Issues Slowing Your Business Down?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Tech should be there to make your business more efficient – not to slow it down. Often, it’s when technology stops working that things fall apart. Here are just a few ways to prevent tech issues from killing your productivity. Invest in Reliable Wi-Fi. A common tech issue that can slow down business is poor internet connection. Many tasks from accepting card payments to replying to emails cannot be done without internet connection.

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[INTERVIEW] David Mimran, Director Of The Mimran Group

YoungUpstarts

There’s no other way to say it: David Mimran has an impressive CV. To the disinterested observer with no prior knowledge of Mimran’s activities, in fact, it might resemble two or three CVs strung together, minus the additional individuals. And, yet, Mimran persists. The serial entrepreneur and many-hat-wearing executive is nowhere near retirement age, and despite his considerable success, he shows no signs of slowing down.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

Why I left Wall Street to figure it out. And what it led me to photo via rttnew.com “I may have to let you go,” he said. “Uhmm,” I just sat there, and after a few minutes, I walked back to my cubicle. The place reeked of greed, desire, and unjust passion. The restroom was taken up by the smell of marijuana. I hated it. “Give me 90 days, and if I don’t multiply your money, we are done!

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Startups Need Your Data, But Consumers Are Still Wary

Startup Professionals Musings

Neither people nor computers can really help you as a personal assistant unless you are willing to share data about what you like, what you feel, and who and what’s important to you. Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest.

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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

Say not in grief he is no more – but live in thankfulness that he was. If you’re reading my blog, odds are you know who Clayton Christensen was. He passed away this week and it was a loss to us all. Everyone who writes about innovation stood on his shoulders. His insights transformed the language and the practice of innovation. Christensen changed the trajectory of my career and was the guide star for my work on innovation.

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Turning Around a Failing – or Ineffective – Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When a business is struggling to break even, has downsized heavily or lost a great deal of market share, it’s not uncommon for the owners or the board to cast out the prior CEO and search for a new leader. If you find yourself in this position, you certainly have your work cut out for you. Not only will your achievements speak for you in this new role, but also how you respond to the circumstances generated by the past leader.

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Workday Services Ecosystem - a conversation in 2 parts

deal architect

I recently sat down with Workday’s newly minted Chief Customer Officer, Emily McEvilly and Webb Armentrout, VP of Global Services Alliances for an in-depth conversation on Workday’s services ecosystem. Workday approaches the management of their ecosystem - at the core.

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8 Errors To Avoid In Your First Minute With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

As an aspiring entrepreneur, one of the most important things you need is a memorable “ elevator pitch ,” to communicate your startup value proposition and leave a great first impression on friends, investors, employees, and future customers. As a startup advisor and potential investor, I’ve heard too many that are heavy on emotion, but light on quantifiable value and impact.

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Assess Your Leadership Qualities By Answering These 7 Questions 

YoungUpstarts

by Oleg Konovalov , author of “ Leaderology “ A leader is supposed to be out in front, pointing the way toward whatever is ahead. But, as we begin a new decade, too many business leaders are facing backward rather than forward. The future can’t be met with backward-thinking and old leadership methods that are no longer effective. The leader’s duty is to open a door into the future for people and explain how things should be considered and managed in that new reality.

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The 3 Backups Your Business Needs

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The business world is fast and furious. It takes mere minutes to make the wrong decisions or lose all of your data. From natural disasters to employees getting injured on your premises, there is a lot that you have to take care of. Taking an active role in protecting your business is essential. So, here are three places that you can consider for backing up your business.

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Workday Services Ecosystem - Part 2

deal architect

This continues my conversation with Workday’s Emily McEvilly and Webb Armentrout on Workday’s SI partner ecosystem. Post implementation services In the heyday of legacy software, post-implementation upgrades, hosting, application management turned out to be a fairly sizable long-tail expense for.

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Why Successful Startups Often Have A Pair Of Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

In my work with new startups, I often find people who believe that the terms “ entrepreneur ” and “ inventor ” are interchangeable. Yet I find a big difference between “starting a new business” and “creating a new product.” In my experience, most successful entrepreneurs have indeed created a new product, but most people who claim to be inventors have a hard time starting a business.

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Doing Due Diligence on Potential Investors

View from Seed

One of the often neglected parts of fundraising is the process of doing due diligence on potential investors. Raising money is super hard. But assuming success, a moment will come when a founder will have multiple funding options. Partnering with an investor and/or board member is very long term commitment, and I’m always surprised by how little diligence founders do prior to signing up for what could be a 10+ year collaboration.

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3 Marketing Mistakes You Must Avoid In 2020

YoungUpstarts

by Alex Shultz of Sure Oak. To succeed in business, you have to market your business. But did you know that marketing doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive? In this digital age, you no longer need a team of experts and piles of cash to get your message out there. With the right mindset — and a little creativity — you can get more eyes on your company than ever.

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Vinnie, Verticals, Vici

deal architect

Apologies to Julius Caesar for mangling his famous quote but a few years ago my colleagues used to call me Vinnie Maintenance for my frequent pointers of low value from software maintenance. Nowadays, some of them call me Vinnie Vertical.

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European Real Estate in 2020: Cooling or Continued Growth?

The Startup Magazine

Real estate investors active in Europe cheered 2019 because it was an excellent year. Lower interest rates in combination with a limited supply contributed to the extension of the real estate cycle and that should continue in 2020, as long as no disruptive events (political, geopolitical, economic, etc.) won’t take place. Real estate trends indicate the comfortable real estate risk premium is expected to drive more capital, doubled by the further yield compression in most asset classes, except t

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10 Of The Best Kobe Bryant Quotes That Will Inspire Your Life And Business

YFS Magazine

A relentless work ethic that propelled Bryant’s 20 years in the NBA also helped drive his next chapter as an entrepreneur, author and Oscar-winning filmmaker.

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Pension vs Property: Which One Is The Better Investment Choice?

YoungUpstarts

No matter what stage you are at in your working life, once you are financially stable, you will most probably be looking for investment opportunities so that you can start building assets that will offer a tidy return for you to enjoy in your later years. There is, of course, your state pension, and any private pensions you may pay into, which are the most common form of investment.

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Distilled Moments: Poems By Dave Jilk

Feld Thoughts

Dave Jilk was my first business partner (we co-founded Feld Technologies). The photo above is from Dave’s office at 155 Federal Street around 1991. We worked closely together for seven years before selling the company in 1993 to a public company called Sage Alerting Systems, which renamed itself Sage Technologies and then finally AmeriData Technologies.

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Dealing with Space Junk and Managing Space Traffic is the Focus of UT Austin Conference

SiliconHills

Space is a finite resource and needs environmental protection, according to Moriba K. Jah, astrodynamicist. “People, in general, take for granted the number of services and capabilities every day that are space-based,” said Jah, director of the Advanced Sciences and Technology Research in Astronautics (ASTRIA) program at The University of Texas at Austin.

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The Importance of Live Chat Service for Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Live chat is an important part of any successful customer service plan. A growing number of customers prefer live chat over any other form of communication with your business, and it offers a wealth of other benefits. In fact, 71% of businesses believe online chat will become the main mode of communication with customers by 2021. If you want to learn more about the importance of chatting and how to build a successful live chat service support team, check out our post below.

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5 Strategies To Improve Your Business Value

YoungUpstarts

According to Inc. Magazine’s “The Most Valuable Company in America,” more than 10 million small companies are likely to be sold in the next 5 to 10 years. Because of this development, many business owners are concerned about business valuation and ideas for transitioning their businesses. There are a number of trusted methods on how to value a private company , describing some of the common business valuation principles.

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