Sat.Sep 12, 2020 - Fri.Sep 18, 2020

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6 Ways To Make Customers Remember You As Exceptional

Startup Professionals Musings

For decades, efforts to satisfy customers have been built around demographics – capitalizing on race, ethnicity, gender, income, and other attributes. Today, in this age of pervasive social media and two-way communication, the focus needs to get beyond demographics into personalities. Customer personalities define customer experience, and sets what they love, and what they hate.

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How To Make Money With Survey Websites

YoungUpstarts

Survey websites offer a win-win solution for both business owners and consumers. With these platforms, the former can now conduct market research to improve their companies at a relatively affordable price. Paid survey sites are where they can find honest opinions about their products and services. For the latter, answering online surveys allow them to earn a little extra on the side.

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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

Many companies need venture capital funding, including startups. The process of getting venture capital funding may be difficult, but it pays off in a cash infusion for your business which may be able to make the difference between failure and success. Dan Lok explains what venture capital funding is and how to secure it for your business. What is Venture Capital Funding?

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How to Create an Irresistible Website for Your Restaurant

Up and Running

If you’ve just opened the doors to your restaurant or are looking to reopen sometime soon, it’s going to take some time to attract more customers. You know that your potential customers are at home, hungry, and searching Google for a great place to eat. But how do you reach them? How do you tell them that your restaurant exists and that it’s open and ready for business?

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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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10 Things that 3 Customer-Centric Brands Get Right

ConversionXL

Like any popular business term, “customer centricity” is often abused by businesses that shoehorn it into their core values. Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t cut it. It’s actually better not to claim customer centricity if you can’t get people across your business to really care about your customers. To be customer centric, you need to speak to your customers, understand their wants and needs, and use data to inform ideas and decisions.

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GPT-3:  An AI That Makes Cars, Not Wrenches And What It Means For The Legal Profession

YoungUpstarts

by Rudy DeFelice, CEO of Keesal Propulsion Labs and author of “ The Pink Box Experience – How Talked-About Companies Got That Way “ One doesn’t have to dig too deep into legal organizations to find AI skeptics. AI is getting tremendous attention and significant venture capital, but AI tools frequently underwhelm in the trenches. Here are a few reasons why that is and why I believe GPT-3, a beta version of which was recently released by the OpenAI Foundation, might be a game-cha

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Aiming for clarity and control in times of uncertainty

NZ Entrepreneur

As the country navigates COVID-19 restrictions, the nation’s SME community will again be thinking about how they can continue to adapt and survive in an unpredictable and economically challenging environment. In the findings from our MYOB General Election Snapshot, we saw that ongoing uncertainty around COVID-19 was the leading concern of SME owners and decision-makers, followed by worries about maintaining levels of customer demand and consumer confidence, and fears about their ability to conti

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How to Become a More Mindful Person

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Become a More Mindful Person written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ricky Kalmon. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Ricky Kalmon an American stage hypnotist, motivational speaker, TV personality and author of self-improvement audio programs. His programs are inspirational and offer compelling, applicable tools anyone can use in personal and professional development.

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A Landslide Of Layoffs Is Coming — How To Do The Dreaded Deed Kindly

YoungUpstarts

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring “ In March, the world suffered a huge shock. As the economy ground to a halt, layoffs and furloughs reverberated through the labor market. Six months later, the pandemic is still with us. So are the layoffs. Hundreds of thousands of workers — mostly in industries like travel/tourism, entertainment, and cosmetics — have lost their jobs , while others have been warned that “temporary” furl

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The Importance of Back Ups

The Startup Magazine

Along with purchasing a reputable anti-virus solution, the next bit of advice given by cybersecurity experts is to back-up your data. This advice is given freely whether warranted or unwarranted but with little in the way of how to effectively do so. However, for the most part, it is warranted and can be the difference between expensive data recovery costs and loss of earnings due to extended periods of downtime from a ransomware attack , as an example.

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Burning Platform: A new series on hot Enterprise topics with Brian Sommer

deal architect

Brian Sommer and I go back nearly 30 years. We ran parallel Software Intelligence units at Andersen (now Accenture) and PwC (that unit is now part of IBM) and competed. The competition was tough at a professional level, but respectful.

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Is Your Business Like a Rusty Bucket?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

A rusty bucket leaks water. Is your business is leaking money? And like a rusty bucket, is it leaking in more than one place, so that no sooner than you’ve patched one leak, another springs up to take its place? Every business is conscious of overhead costs (especially in the current climate). But at the same time, businesses should also beware of false economy.

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These Seven Employee Behaviors May Well Predict Your Company’s Odds Of Survival

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change “ The old way of working is dead. Its death throes began decades ago, and the COVID shake-up has slammed the lid on the coffin. In a world of flux, we all have to be 24/7 learners, innovators, and collaborators. Yet most companies continue to allow, encourage, or even force workers to keep up their old rugged-individualistic, head-down, fear-driven, Industrial-Revolution-era ways.

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5 Crucial Security Features for Your Home Office

The Startup Magazine

With the current state of the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have been forced to work from home. Whilst this may be wonderful for some, it is important that we do not neglect the basics of securing your home office. With countless people sadly losing their jobs entirely, we must remain vigilant if we want to have a safe and happy working environment.

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New Normal: A conversation with Darren Roos of IFS

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs 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 up.

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8 Strategies To Satisfy Investors You Are Accountable

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it’s just me, but I sometimes feel that accountability is a rare talent in business today. In big businesses, people are quick to defer with “that’s not my department,” and even startup founders too often blame failures on the economy or the lack of investors. As an investor and advisor to entrepreneurs, I see accountability, or lack of it, as an override to even the best idea.

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Are You Attracting the Wrong Customers?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Not all business is good business. There are some customers that can be time-consuming and costly to work with. They may be unreasonably demanding, they may fail to pay you on time or they may fail to cooperate with rules and requests that you’ve laid out for them. In other cases, they may simply not be the ideal demographic – you may pride yourself as a specialist, and yet may continuously find yourself attracting clients wanting routine services or general products.

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Data Classification and You

The Startup Magazine

For some, the idea of data classification is a bureaucratic checklist handed done by managers and lawmakers of recently. It is one more task to be done. An extreme attitude to be sure but one encountered by data privacy experts continually. Rather than viewing it as such, it needs to be viewed as an essential part of running a successful business.

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New Normal: A conversation with Mark Galloway of GrandPad

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs 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 up.

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A Fearless Leader’s Mindset Will Conquer Any Obstacle

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction.

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Our Scoring System at NextView (aka How We Evaluate Companies)

View from Seed

A few weeks ago, I published a post on how we make decisions and vote at NextView. Usually when we record our votes, we also score each company based on five attributes. This isn’t used as a “scorecard” where companies need to clear a certain quantitative bar to get through our process. But it’s a summary of the attributes we tend to think about as a team, and a record of how each one of us rated our investments based on these attributes.

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6 Things High-Growth Startups Do Differently

The Startup Magazine

If there’s one thing that we can learn from studying successful startups and corporations, it’s that there’s no singular path to entrepreneurial success. But at the same time, it’s clear that most high-growth startups do things a bit differently. The Differentiating Factors of High-Growth Startups. Most startups start with a burst of momentum from the founder, slowly add some customers, and stagnate, before ultimately fizzling out.

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New Normal: A conversation with Kevin Parikh of Avasant

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level execs 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 up.

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7 Types Of People Who Get Results With Minimal Motion

Startup Professionals Musings

Isn’t it amazing that some people you know always seem to be working hard, but never seem to get anything done? As an entrepreneur, you need to avoid partnering with these people, or hiring them into your startup. The challenge is to find people who get things done, as well as work hard. LinkedIn profiles and resumes still focus too much on responsibilities rather than results.

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Outsourcing – How External Help Can Grow Your Business And Expand Your Services

YoungUpstarts

In the modern connected world, more and more businesses are outsourcing to help with company growth. Faster networks and a proliferation of mobile devices has made remote working easier than ever, and the demand for freelancers has never been higher. Outsourcing can be the best solution for growing your business and expanding the range of services you offer without incurring a significant increase in overhead.

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Announcing our investment in Patch, a platform for negative emissions

Version One Ventures

Few launches have been as timely. Over the past month, those of us on the west coast have been dealing with forest fires… if anyone ever doubted climate change, let us be the first to tell you that the orange, fiery, smokey skies and the ash raining down from it are all very real. At Version One, we’ve been focused on energy and climate since last year and have ramped up as we welcomed Max to the team in January (some of his writings and our thesis here ).

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Are You Spending Your Weeks The Way You Want To?

Feld Thoughts

Amy has a birthday coming up. We spent some time this morning talking about her next year. Since the two of us are together all day every day, we also discussed how I’m spending my time over the upcoming year that begins at her birthday. A few hours later, I stumbled upon Your Life in Weeks on Wait But Why , one of my favorite blogs. The following are the number of weeks (measured in boxes) that a typical 90-year-old human has on this planet.

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Career Opportunities after ITIL Foundation Course

The Startup Magazine

ITIL or Information Technology Infrastructure Library is a framework used to manage the IT service delivery process all across the world. ITIL is used for defining a model of service lifecycle prescribing specific activities and processes for designing, developing, delivering, and supporting IT services. Image by Pexels from Pixabay. IT services broadly define all the IT activities delivering business value to the organization’s customers, end-users, and stakeholders.

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The First Steps To Opening Your Fashion Boutique

YoungUpstarts

Opening your own fashion boutique is exciting. However, the steps you must take can seem overwhelming and daunting at first. While hard work and effort are involved, it is possible to start a successful fashion boutique. Create Your Vision. Before you can get started with your business venture, you have to know what you want. Now is the time to create your vision.

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A digital goodie bag

VC Cafe

I’ve always been a fan of startup resources lists and had a dedicated page on VC Cafe since the blog’s inception in 2005. While some things change slowly, maintaining the list current proved tricky as time went by. You may have stumbled on LinkedIn posts enticing people (mainly startup founders) to leave a comment if they would like to get a copy of a document/list/database.

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Monday Motivation: No One Will Come To Motivate You

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Here are some takeaways from the video: Motivating yourself is key. You can’t change people like you can change yourself. Good people are not trained, they are found. It takes self-motivation to alter your life. Have a better plan for your life.

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How to Figure Out What to Sell on Amazon

The Startup Magazine

Amazon is continuing to be a major force in the retail industry , pushing the industry in new directions and absolutely changing the way people traditionally buy products. One of the most attractive things about Amazon is that anyone can take advantage of the platform and tap into its massive user base. As a result, selling on the platform becomes extremely attractive and has a high likelihood of being lucrative for the seller.

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The Benefits Of Using Managed Printing Services

YoungUpstarts

Running a business nowadays has become much more convenient than it was decades ago. Most businesses today are digitalized, meaning most of their pen and paper-produced work contained in physical storage units is now transferred into computers and cloud servers. Digitalizing the work environment will undoubtedly ease up the entire work process and declutter company offices from mountains of documents and paper files.

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How To Create Connections, Deliver Smiles, And Inspire Your Community

YFS Magazine

Creating a community outreach effort during difficult times can provide precisely the invaluable payback your business needs.

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Pitch like you expect to be funded. Expect to be funded after you've done your homework.

This is going to be BIG.

I hear from a lot of founders who want to know what I think. I want to know what they think. It’s fine if you’re at a super early stage, and you’re looking for some direction—trying to figure out if anyone has done something like this, or whether or not, in my “expertise” I believe some aspect of expected consumer behavior. Let’s be clear, however, that’s not fundraising.

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Jason Colodne of Colbeck Capital Interviews Energy Ventures Analysis’ Emily Medine

The Startup Magazine

Over the last four years, the coal industry has witnessed an ongoing transformation on a global scale – from decreased demand in the US to growing fuel needs in Asia and rising concerns about climate change. A fuel source once viewed as a symbol of political strength and energy independence now carries a negative connotation as a result of how carbon emissions are impacting the environment.