Sat.Aug 22, 2020 - Fri.Aug 28, 2020

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Little Tweaks That Will Catapult Your Online Store To The Next Level

YoungUpstarts

You don’t find many startup ideas as straightforward as an online store. Well, not in theory at least! It follows a pretty basic business model of selling products online for people to order. You stock the products in a warehouse or your garage, then ship them off as the orders come in. If you’re looking to launch a successful startup in 2020, this is probably the best idea you’ll find.

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10 Ways to Adapt Your Marketing Strategy in a Crisis

Up and Running

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. With many brands unsure of where to turn amid the crisis, we are reminded of how important it is to have flexibility within our marketing strategies. While these strategies can be planned up to a year in advance, many efforts are no longer applicable due to the various restrictions that consumers are facing.

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Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I, through our Anchor Point Foundation , are supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund. If you are interested in supporting this initiative, send a note to info@hbcu.vc or email me. Several people pointed me at Hadiyah Mujhid , the Founder and CEO of HBCUvc. We talked a few times and I offered to support HBCUvc in any way that she wanted. She asked me to support the expansion of HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund.

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Data Heist: 5 Most Popular Data Breaches of the Century

The Startup Magazine

Technological advancements have undoubtedly made life easier but they have also left companies susceptible to data breaches. Two decades ago, hacking was rare and most data hacks were considered newsworthy. Fast forward to today, even the biggest companies have at one point been hacked or have experienced a data breach. Here are 5 companies you wouldn’t believe got hacked!

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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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A Guide To Remote Work Success

YoungUpstarts

Even before the current pandemic, more and more businesses were shifting towards a remote work system. Yet since the world was turned upside down, this has gone into overdrive. For many who were fortunate enough to still remain employed, they suddenly found themselves working from home. At first, this could have been seen as a dream scenario for those who were tired of the daily commute to the office.

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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

Uncertainty is the most daunting part of entrepreneurship. That uncertainty has likely been compounded exponentially this year. But one thing is certain— in a time of crisis, innovations have assumed a head-spinning pace, rendering outdated approaches extinct and causing many companies to completely reinvent the way that they work. The first stage in this crisis was survival.

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WNY Holdings’ Marketing Manager Christopher Lee Explains 7 Ways a Small Businesses Can Develop a Brand

The Startup Magazine

The key to triumphantly reaching and gaining traction in a target market is a well-developed brand, especially for small businesses. Organizations run into trouble when their brand does not stick in the minds of desired consumers and need to focus on brand development. . Christopher Lee, WNY Holdings’ Marketing Manager, knows that growth is essential for any small company’s success.

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Online Dental Marketing Checklist For All Startup Practices

YoungUpstarts

Investing in a property for starting a new dental practice involves a lot of money, time, and effort. It can be the turning point in your dental career. Here you wish to have maximum patients to visit your dental care so you can provide them with quality dentistry they deserve. However, there are various things to consider when you think of crafting a business plan, and one of the most important is online dental marketing.

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Why Cybersecurity Is More Important Than Ever for Your Business

Up and Running

Small businesses are facing new challenges as the coronavirus pandemic continues unabated around the world. From laying off staff to transitioning to remote work to seeking emergency loans , small businesses are navigating a flurry of concerns. As of May 2020, 82% of U.S. small businesses reported being concerned about the pandemic’s impact, with those in the retail and service sectors saying they are very concerned.

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New Normal: A conversation with Rich Karlgaard of Forbes Media

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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Product Review: Ubersuggest SEO marketing tool

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to pushing a product, service, or website online, it doesn’t get much more important than SEO marketing. Search engine optimization is the beating heart of any online business , without it, your services are extremely hard to find, sometimes nigh on impossible. Pushing your business up the Google rankings is something that should be looked at early on in the life of any business, and it is something that needs to be continually revisited and updated throughout the lifespan of the c

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Ways To Drive More Sales To Your eCommerce Website

YoungUpstarts

The goal of every online store owner is to make sales, but as you know, it is not just a case of hitting the publish button and seeing the dollars roll in. The competition in the eCommerce sector is high. It is also high among many niches, so how do you break through the noise? One of the most effective ways to gain traction for your venture is eCommerce marketing.

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8 Keys To Success In Your Next New Business Interview

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups and small businesses are different worlds from big enterprises, so the qualities you need to get a job in a new venture are different. Corporate environments are looking for depth of technical skills and experience, while small businesses need everyone to be customer-centric , with a broad range of perspectives and experiences, in addition to the specific skill requested.

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New Normal: A conversation with Charles Phillips of RECOGNIZE

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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Six Ways To Grow Your Criminal Firm

The Startup Magazine

The goal of any business establishment is to make money, and criminal law firms are no exception. However, the industry is extremely competitive, making it rather difficult to grow your business. You can never stay for more than 30 minutes on your television without seeing a criminal lawyer ad. The question now turns to how you survive in such a cutthroat industry.

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Top Tips For Launching A Successful Start-Up

YoungUpstarts

Countless people dream of launching their own business, and in many ways, there’s never been a better time to do so. Over half a million new businesses got started per month in 2018 alone, and the advanced technologies and resources of the modern era provide so many ways for new businesses to find success, connect with customers, and build their brands.

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What’s a “data room” and how do you use it?

Berkonomics

First, what’s a “deal book?”. Maybe you have not heard the term, “deal book.” That’s a comprehensive piece on a company for use by a buyer in determining fit. A “deal room” is a cloud-based or physical space dedicated to storing the massive amounts of data to be used in due diligence by a buyer, lender or by an investor. Your data room and its contents.

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6 Ways To Pull In Customers Without Push Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs have always believed that their product or service must show real value to customers, but today the smart ones are even able to make their marketing valuable. The days are gone when marketing was all “pushing product.” Now customers seek out people who are willing and able to add value, with expertise and insight, even before they have a product.

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Are Businesses More Likely to Work From Home After Covid-19?

The Startup Magazine

Working from home has become the new normal in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but what will happen in the (hopefully near) future when things start to return to normal? It looks like many businesses will continue with remote working at least on a part-time basis as it has largely proven to be a successful experiment that benefits both parties.

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The Next Entrepreneurs And Startups

YoungUpstarts

The most successful entrepreneurs have always used the realities of the environment around them as a basis for exploring opportunities and developing new ideas that actually provide value for people and are structured to create profit. Entrepreneurs are currently looking at an environment that is unlike any other seen in the history of commerce, while leaders of businesses and startups have to think on-the-fly to learn what potential customers need most right now.

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Salesforce's acrobatics

deal architect

Jim Cramer at CNBC pointed out the irony that ExxonMobil, a major carbon contributor as an oil and gas company is being replaced by Salesforce in the Dow Jones Industrials Index. Salesforce is a major supporter of the WEF's 1T.org.

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Pondering the Commercial Real Estate Market

Feld Thoughts

Since Covid started, I’ve had many conversations about office space. In April, almost all of our companies were unable to use their office space because of stay at home orders. Today, even though strict stay-at-home orders are no longer in place in most of the country, the vast majority of our companies are still in a primary work-from-home mode.

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5 Tips to Make Your Business ADA Compliant

The Startup Magazine

Ensuring that your customers are comfortable means accommodating people of all types of needs. Enacted in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) act ensures that business owners need to take some steps in making sure that their business is visitable for those on a wide scale of disabilities. To ensure that your business is ADA compliant, take into consideration all of these steps when adapting your business.

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The Worst Advice We’ve Heard For SEO Services

YoungUpstarts

by Sheryl Jones, Senior Marketing Specialist at Uplers. The internet is an excellent resource for learning and acquiring knowledge. However, it is also a hotspot for half-baked truths and a generous sprinkling of lies. This problem often plagues popular, hot topics. And resultantly, you are stuck with information that has lost its fidelity. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one such domain that is dotted with misinformation.

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Workday's Solid Pandemic Performance

deal architect

Workday had a solid quarter - listen to the earnings call here. Actually given the state of the economy, you could call it a blowout quarter.

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Venture Kills or the Sunday New York Times

Feld Thoughts

I had a really nice week off the grid. More on that in another post. I woke up this morning with a very long run in mind. The air quality in Longmont is awful because of the forest fires and, after checking the weather on my iPhone and seeing an air quality index of 138, I decided that a run wasn’t going to happen. So, I ate breakfast with Amy and read the Sunday New York Times.

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Austin Coworking Lives on Amid Masks, ‘Ghost Town’ Offices and Social Distancing

SiliconHills

By OMAR L. GALLAGA, Freelance Contributor to Silicon Hills News A few weeks ago, Michelle McGown celebrated her return to a workspace at Central Austin’s Vessel Coworking with a cheerful Instagram story post. “Back at @Vesselcoworking and it feels so good!” she posted, “Don’t @ me! It’s lunchtime & I can’t eat through a mask!” […]. The post Austin Coworking Lives on Amid Masks, ‘Ghost Town’ Offices and Social Distancing appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Key Reasons Why Courses With CPD Certification Are Beneficial For Employees And Employers

YoungUpstarts

The key to a successful business is top-quality employees, continued training and career progression. Without these, a company can quickly witness high staff turnaround, unmotivated staff and inadequate work quality. One way to ensure these values are kept is by offering training courses that have CPD certification. As many businesses are having to place face-to-face training on hold during the pandemic and financial uncertainty is causing promotion and pay rises to be paused, these online train

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Helpful Tips To Becoming Your Own Boss

The Startup Magazine

If you are like many people, you have a dream of one day being your own boss and tossing aside the boring 9-5 job you currently show up for day after day. However, while there are many perks to being one’s own boss, it also takes a tremendous amount of hard work and planning to make it a success. But for those who take the plunge and are successful, most say there is no better way to spend your time.

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Four SEO Tools To Improve Your Google Rankings

YFS Magazine

Improved SEO and increased site traffic is something we are all interested in. These four tools are designed to help you get there.

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Women@Austin Launches Beam Angel Network Aimed at Funding Female-Founded Startups in Texas

SiliconHills

There’s a new angel network in Austin, aimed specifically and women-led startups. This week, Women@Austin, a nonprofit organization focused on advancing female entrepreneurs, launched the Beam Angel Network. Notley Venture, a social impact investment firm based in Austin, has pledged $250,000 to kick off the network, which will begin accepting applications on Sept. 1st.

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10 Apps For Student’s Online Learning During COVID-19

YoungUpstarts

This coronavirus outbreak has confined more than a billion students, all over the world, to their houses. Schools and universities moved the teaching apparatus onto online platforms, to public learning software, video conferencing tools , and edtech apps. Faculty and administration, along with the younger generation, immerse themselves in this process. .

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What Does CLS Stand For? Your Complete Guide

The Startup Magazine

If you’re not sure what CLS actually stands for, you can join the club. Learn more about its definition and uses as you navigate the best website management tools. Did you know that 81% of Americans go online on a daily basis? If you are part of this statistic and you have a business with an online presence then you might have heard the term CLS before but are not sure what exactly it is or if it is even important.

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How to Go From Startup Founders to a Growing Team

Up and Running

My co-founder Andrew and I built Canny , a SaaS tool to help businesses collect and manage customer feedback and build their product roadmap, from the ground up. Canny is 100% bootstrapped —we haven’t taken any outside funding. We’re profitable, and we just cracked $800K in annual recurring revenue earlier this year. We’re now a team of seven ( and growing ).

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Schools Kill Creativity

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

We Still Can Learn From “The Ken” Sir Ken Robinson Leaves a Legacy That Still Inspires. Educators, Creators, and Innovators, Revisit His Work! The creativity and innovation world has lost one of its finest just this last week. Sir Ken Robinson was the most articulate speaker and author in the field of applied creativity we’ve ever known.

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5 Reasons Why You Need IT Support For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When building your startup from the ground up, you’ll need to focus your attention on a few key aspects that will help drive your business forward. Because technology will be absolutely integral to your workflow, IT infrastructure should be towards the top of your list. Whilst you may have a firm grasp on how to utilize technology, that doesn’t make you an IT expert.