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5 Quick Self-Care Tips For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

If you're ready to improve yourself from the inside out, here are five simple self-care tips to ensure you prioritize your well-being.

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Capturing Luck with “or” instead of “and”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I won a fake stock market competition in elementary school. I put all my money in a few penny stocks — where prices are less than a dollar, and because of their small denomination, their value (as a percentage) fluctuates wildly. Some days I had the worst portfolio, other days I had the best. The competition happened to end on an up-day. This was an example of “high risk, high reward.

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Why Startups Should Focus On Software Testing

YoungUpstarts

by Hardik Shah, Tech Consultant at Simform. According to Capgemini’s World Quality Report 2018-19 , Companies are now spending an average of 35% of their IT budget on QA and testing — a 9% year-on-year increase. The report was based on a global survey of IT executives and testing leaders from different countries. It’s actually good that the companies have started realising the importance of the testing phase in the software development life cycle.

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FinTech and Forex – A Match Made in Heaven

The Startup Magazine

The connection between Forex and technology is an obvious one. Because of the characteristics of currency trading, it’s normal to assume that technology can help investors perfect their strategies and make the most of the money they put in this trading method. Because forex trading is highly dependant on socio-economic, political, and natural events, like disasters, the market is extremely volatile.

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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 Leadership Principles That Inspire Loyalty And Productivity

YFS Magazine

Are you a leader worth following?

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If These Quotes Could Be You, Don’t Try A New Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So what about you? How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? I’ve hit this before, but I still hear from too many unhappy entrepreneurs.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. Motivating yourself can be hard but practicing consistent habits such as reminding yourself of why you started can be a major boost. A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- Establishing high goals.

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Jan McBarron Shares Her Guide for Effectively Building Your Social Media Brand in the Digital Age

The Startup Magazine

Any solid business plan requires a social media strategy. Social media has pushed into every area of our lives, governing how we read the news, communicate with our families and friends and how we express ourselves to the world. Effectively building your social media brand can be broken down into concrete steps. Using these steps, it is possible for anyone to create a thoughtful, original social media presence that accurately reflects you, your business and brand and demonstrates how you can hel

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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

“What gets measured gets done.” . A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter.

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Neil Patel: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master

YoungUpstarts

When you’re working at growing your business , you need some role models to follow and great examples to emulate. It’s a hard grind when you’re just at the beginning of the process, so you need a little inspiration. There are few better choices than Neil Patel. Neil Patel is an outstanding, globally revered marketer who can teach you plenty about content marketing, PPC, SEO, and other digital marketing channels to help your business thrive.

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Modern Governance Approach to Ensuring Board Effectiveness

Board Effect

Increased effectiveness among nonprofit boards is essential in today’s world. So essential, in fact, that there’s software designed to facilitate it as well as professionals trained to foster it and conferences produced to explore it. It’s no surprise that best practices emerge when 500 people convene around making nonprofit boards work better. The shift, however, is in the approach to board performance, which now begins not with a “how to” on enhancement, but rather an understanding of why boar

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How to Treat Your Tech Startup Like a Profitable Business from Day One

The Startup Magazine

Profitability is an extremely important goal for any startup — but profitability doesn’t just happen. There are many reasons to treat your startup like a profitable business from day one. Operating your business under the assumption that it’s already profitable will establish critical workflows and business practices that ensure your startup succeeds in the long term.

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Finding Stillness in the Modern World

Duct Tape Marketing

Finding Stillness in the Modern World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Holiday. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I sit down with writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday. Holiday is the author of 10 books, including The Obstacle is the Way , Ego is the Enemy , and his latest, Stillness is the Key.

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Why Marketing Your Own Tourism Business Sucks

YoungUpstarts

The best thing about marketing your business today is that when done right, you can achieve desired results for free. And who doesn’t want to become successful without spending some marketing dime? Self-marketing may sound ideal, but in the grand scheme of things, it sucks. If you still think handling your marketing needs on your own will save you time and money for your tourism business, you’re wrong.

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Developing Your Nonprofit’s Strategic Plan

Board Effect

The goal of strategic planning is to provide a structured process to establish goals and objectives, outline steps to achieving them, align the staff and resources to support them, and establish a timeline for making progress. While it sounds complicated, developing a nonprofit strategic plan isn’t difficult, even if you’ve never done one before. Don’t make the mistake that many other nonprofits make which is to complete the strategic plan and toss it into a drawer.

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Mental Health Checklist: 7 Ways Business Owners Can Manage Stress

The Startup Magazine

Ask any business owner and he or she will tell you: managing a business is hard work. For many business owners, it’s normal to have your good and bad days tied to your business’s performance. In hard times, stress can take a toll on a business owner’s mental health, which can only add more heaviness to an already overwhelming load. Instead of waiting for the panic attack around the corner, we encourage business owners to keep stress at bay with this mental health checklist.

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10 Signals That You Can Be A Trusted Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur and business leader believes that he or she has the full trust of their team and their customers, and in fact most do in the beginning. In my experience, most business professionals still believe in the old proverb, “ trust but verify.” In this context, that means you trust your leaders initially, but you look for signals that your trust in them is deserved and reciprocated.

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How Humans and Everyday Tech Can Outmatch AI

YoungUpstarts

by Nada R. Sanders, PhD, and John D. Wood, Esq., co-authors of “ The Humachine: Humankind, Machines, and the Future of Enterprise “ Artificial intelligence is at the top of mind of every corporate executive. It dominates shareholder calls and flames the fire of financial expectations. Its powers and potential give stock prices a bump and bolster investor confidence.

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The 7 habits of highly effective people… in startups

VC Cafe

I’ve just finished re-reading “ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, a bestseller written by Stephen R. Covey 30 years ago; it might be old, but it is still extremely relevant. Covey (1932-2012), was a business school professor and internationally respected authority on leadership. In the book, he walks the reader through a basic principle: true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness.

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Artificial Intelligence Startup SparkCognition Raises $100 Million in Additional Funding

SiliconHills

SparkCognition announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in additional VC funding. March Capital Partners led the Series C round. To date, the Austin-based startup, founded in 2013, has raised $175 million. “In a short few years, SparkCognition has proven itself to be one of the leading industrial AI companies in the world,” Sumant […].

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How To Check Your Ethics Before A Business Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Most business leaders I know clearly understand the difference between legal and illegal activities, but often are not so clear on the line between ethical and unethical. Unfortunately, there is no universal code of business ethics , written down and enforced by some external governing body. We all have to rely on our own interpretation of what will maintain a working level of trust between all constituents.

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Just Starting Out? Here Are A Few Invoicing Hacks To Help You Look More Professional

YoungUpstarts

Consistency in invoicing is critical to keep your business afloat. A professional invoice template facilitates a seamless and painless way to manage your cash flow, especially when you’re still learning the ropes. Invoicing and other administrative tasks like bookkeeping can be complicated when you’re just starting out and eat up a huge chunk of your time.

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Pedro David Espinoza’s Tips for Becoming an Active Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

Being an active entrepreneur means taking advantage of all of the opportunities available in your community. Rather than sitting back and letting your business run itself, as an active entrepreneur you will carefully manage all aspects of your new business venture. It means constantly challenging yourself to learn new skills. Running a company is a challenging prospect, and many new businesses fail.

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The Biggest Mistake Your Startup is Making

ReadWriteStart

Entrepreneurs always make mistakes. When you’re building a business , you will get things wrong. Everyone does. It’s part of the learning process. If you’re not failing occasionally, you’re not trying hard enough. Let me explain the biggest mistake your startup is making. Some mistakes, though, are more significant than others—and there’s one mistake that’s the biggest of all.

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7 Strategies To Make You A Business Leader Role Model

Startup Professionals Musings

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t good enough. Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss.

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Think Ahead – Is It Time To Make Use Of China Sourcing Agents For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

Even the largest of corporate companies wish to expand the scope of their business further and do bigger things. Similarly, if you are new to the world of entrepreneurship or have a small startup to look after, you will find yourself constantly in search of opportunities to expand. When it comes to any opportunity you may take up for the expansion of your business, you will always want to have reduced costs and greater profits.

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Saving a Business That’s Failing: There Might Still be Time

The Startup Magazine

Not every business venture succeeds unfortunately, but unknown to many of the potential entrepreneurs, they could be giving up on it far too early. While there is no way to know if your particular business still can be saved, the following discussion should give you at least a few new things to try first, before completely giving up on your dreams. There are several approaches to business restructuring.

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Exploring Space, Travel, and Colonization at SpaceATX

SiliconHills

Space is big business in Texas and it’s getting bigger. To explore the industry and its impact in Austin and San Antonio, Silicon Hills News is putting on its first space industry conference: SpaceATX: Space the Next Frontier: Exploring Space, Travel and Colonization. SpaceATX is focused on Texas’ booming space industry and geared to those […].

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6 Lessons For Business Leaders From Military Training

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to be extra tough mentally to start a new business venture. While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it’s too late, and never give up on achieving their objective.

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Rebranding Can Revive Your Business – Is it The Right Choice For You?

YoungUpstarts

by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. Rebranding isn’t a band-aid and is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Your valuable brand equity takes time to accrue and it shouldn’t be squandered lightly and without good reason. So, why rebrand your company? Rebranding may be the key to getting your business back on track. Rebranding is rarely a sign of weakness. It’s more often a sign of a company in tune with its customers and its market.

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Banking Is Digital – Here’s How To Get Ahead

The Startup Magazine

As technologies grow and evolve, the industries they service do as well. When it comes to the world of finances, confusion and frustration can be rather common. Having something that can help organize and keep your finances secure is becoming ever more important. Banking and finances are some of the most targeted industries in the world – robberies, fiscal cliffs, recessions, etc.

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UT Austin Engineering Professor John B. Goodenough Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

SiliconHills

The University of Texas at Austin has a new Nobel Prize winner in chemistry: John B. Goodenough, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering. The Royal Academy of Sciences Wednesday awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Goodenough along with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira […]. The post UT Austin Engineering Professor John B.

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ProLon Day 1

Feld Thoughts

As part of v53 , I added the word “Healthy” into my statements of “what I want to be.” I’ve lost about 15 pounds this year, which has helped a huge amount with my running. I’m focused on losing another 10 pounds which will be me down to my goal weight of 195 that I’ll be happy maintaining for a while. In addition to having an amazingly wonderful nutritionist named Katie Elliot who programs my meals, I’ve been experimenting with something different

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15 Best Practices To Guide Your Remote Team To Success

YoungUpstarts

Many companies hire remote teams, and this comes with plenty of advantages. First of all, you will attract potential employees who prefer this type of arrangement because it better fits their preferred lifestyle. You will also attract the best of the best because you can have people from across the country or even the world working for you without any relocation.

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Invoicing tips to slash A/R delinquencies

The Startup Magazine

When I was a business advisor, I often asked clients what their primary goal and concern was. The majority of business owners said their biggest focus was growth. They often pursued growth at the expense of other issues. Unfortunately, this meant that more pressing issues, such as high uncollectible rates for accounts receivable were ignored. Delinquent accounts receivables are a major concern for many businesses.

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Hello World and RetailMeNot Work Together to Bring STEM Opportunities to Austin Students

SiliconHills

By Sabina Bharwani, Founder and CEO of Hello World Contributed Post to Silicon Hills News Throughout the 2018-2019 academic year and this fall, RetailMeNot has quietly donated significant funds for computer science education to over 500 students across Harmony Public Schools Austin. Through a partnership with Hello World, 4th-7th-grade students across four Harmony campuses work […].

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