Sat.Jun 20, 2020 - Fri.Jun 26, 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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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

The world has changed… Two months ago, if I told you that remote work would be the global norm by mid-April, you’d have thought I was hanging out with Elon Musk too much. And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring.

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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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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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5 Stages Of The Market Lifecycle Gate Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

As a frequent advisor to new entrepreneurs and startups, I often hear your frustration with being treated differently from other startups by investors, on expectations for valuation , traction, and market size. Of course, it could be your level of experience, or the quality of your team, but the difference is often more related to the lifecycle stage of the market you are trying to enter.

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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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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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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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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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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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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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Out of the Crisis #10: HelixNano founder Hannu Rajaniemi on vaccines, suspending disbelief, and the power of stories

Startup Lessons Learned

HelixNano was founded to develop cancer vaccines. When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. It only took them a week to become fully committed to this new work. Just five weeks after that they had animal data on immune responses to their first vaccine candidates.

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How The Coronavirus Has Forever Changed Remote Work

YoungUpstarts

by Sharon Koifman, CEO of DistantJob. The rapid shift to remote work sent ripples through the business world. As quarantine orders were passed, businesses had to quickly modify their processes to make them compatible with a remote workforce. In total, about 20 percent of U.S. adults were able to work from home, with those in the service industry and essential workers unable to work remotely.

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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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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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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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Guide To Improving Customer Communication – A 2020 Edition

YoungUpstarts

When running a business, there’s one element that is more important than any other: the customer. If you don’t have customers purchasing your products or services, your company will quickly cease to exist. It’s that simple. Due to the importance of customers, your communication with them should be a primary concern. Not only can this help to convince potential consumers into buying your wares, but it’s also a significant factor in ensuring current customers keep coming back for more.

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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 Digital Tools Foster Hyper Personalized Banking

The Startup Magazine

Digital banking concepts are changing the way financial institutions engage with customers. One of these trends is banking personalization. The days of one-size-fits-all financial products are numbered. Here is why and how. Driven by data. Personalization with digital banking starts with customers’ data. Because of the nature of their services banks have some of the most intimate information on their clients.

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5 Strategies For Balancing Revenue Versus User Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $35B public company, and now growing revenue.

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How To Lead During A Time Of Crisis

YoungUpstarts

by Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-Founder and COO of Chargebacks911. The world is in a state of uncertainty. Cases of COVID-19 continue to spread and millions of people are experiencing upheaval in both their personal and professional lives. We’re in a period of rapid change, which can be a scary, confusing, and frustrating experience. Now more than ever, people look to leaders to encourage and support them through the turmoil and confusion.

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Be Like Water – A Guiding Principle for Consumer Product

View from Seed

“Be formless, shapeless, like water.” – Bruce Lee. I was on a pitch video call the other day when the founder asked me what the guiding principle for product was at Blue Apron when I was leading the team there, and my response was that consumer product experience should be like water. At a first glance, that could sound pretty counterintuitive – isn’t the point of a product team to purposefully design and build?

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How to Startup Your UK Business as a Non-resident

The Startup Magazine

Interested in starting a company in the UK? Of course, you are — why wouldn’t you be? The UK is a fantastic and lucrative market. A dynamic and ever-changing landscape, based around the international hub that is London, the UK enjoys one of the world’s healthiest and most stable economies for a UK startup, fed by both domestic consumers and a myriad of intercontinental interests.

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New Normal: A conversation with Grant Halloran of Planful

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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7 Daily Habits For Entrepreneurs To Achieve More

YoungUpstarts

Daily habits are an integral part of every entrepreneur. And the principal aim is to focus more and set out to achieve your goals. What works for another person may not necessarily work for you. Nonetheless, create a daily routine and develop better habits that can help you become successful. These include exercise, reading, and sleeping adequately.

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How to Stand Out in the Health and Wellness Industry

Austin Startup

When you pour so much time, energy, and investment into your health or wellness business, it can be disheartening to feel like your brand is blending in with the rest. After all, the purpose of a brand is to stand out and attract more customers! If you hit a plateau, there are several strategic ways to set your business apart. Think of it as a two-pronged approach of: Focusing inward on the elements that make your business, purpose, and offering so unique and irreplaceable, and Focusing outward

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How to Choose a Data Science and AI Consulting Company

The Startup Magazine

Data science and AI have been more relevant to many companies in different industries now. Data science and analysis are indeed the solution for many different data issues. If your company is working with large data, there’s a chance that you and your team are now struggling to solve the big data problem. Data Science Inputs. There will be some points where you’d need to use data science for your business.

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New Normal: A conversation with Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary on Sports

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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6 Entrepreneurship Advantages For Seniors In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A popular myth that most of you probably believe is that startups are only for the younger generations. In fact, I see more and more evidence that new entrepreneurs are coming from the older age groups (age 45-64), and success rates move up with age. Is it possible that age and experience are more of an advantage in this business than young passion and fearlessness?

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How To Start A Moving Company Business

YoungUpstarts

Take the time to find out more about the moving companies currently serving people in your area. How large are these moving companies? What kind of services do they offer? Is there anything that you can do that will help you to differentiate yourself from your competitors? If there’s a high demand for moving companies in your area, it might not be difficult for you to place yourself among successful moving companies.

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Why We Invested in Jumbo

View from Seed

After operating quietly for the past year, our portfolio company Jumbo made a couple big announcements yesterday, including the launch of Jumbo 2 as well as their $8M series A financing led by Balderton Capital. We were proud to be investors in Jumbo pre-product and to be working once again with Pierre Valade, one of the founders of NextView I portfolio company Sunrise.

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Work Boldly!

deal architect

Even though I call myself a glass half-full optimist, like everyone, I have mood swings during this wild phase. I had a roller coaster of a day yesterday, but did two calls in the evening and went to sleep very.

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Humans Just Don’t Understand Complex Systems

Feld Thoughts

A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth as crowds flock to the beach. Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images. My first reaction to this photo was “you’ve got to be f **g kidding me.” My next reaction was the title of this post, “Humans Just Don’t Understand Complex Systems.” The Covid crisis is a complex system. I’ve had my head deep in complex systems for the past year as I worked with Ian Hathaway on our new book The Startup Community Way.

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How To Boost Your Business Using YouTube In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Youtube is one of the most popular platforms for promoting your business. More than 73% of U.S adults spend billions of hours watching YouTube content every day. Making your business reach such a huge audience will be a game-changer for your business. There are a lot of ways to make your YouTube videos connect with the target audience. For example, you can educate customers about your product with the help of product training videos.

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10 Entrepreneur Podcasts Every Founder Should Listen To

ReadWriteStart

Podcasts are one of my favorite content mediums, and I know I’m not alone. Podcasts are inexpensive, typically free, they’re incredibly diverse, they’re usually updated on a daily or weekly basis, and you can listen to them while doing other things—like driving, doing chores, or exercising. Here are ten entrepreneur podcasts every founder should listen to.

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New Normal: A conversation with Jason Blessing of Model N

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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