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Effective Management Techniques to Reduce Employee Turnover

The Startup Magazine

Did you know approximately 4 million Americans (2.6% of the U.S. workforce) left their job in 2022? Moreover, a Statista’s report reveals that the number of quits has now surpassed the pre-pandemic peak for 21 consecutive months. Young people playing table tennis in workplace, having fun. Perhaps it won’t be wrong to say these staggering numbers are a wake-up call for organizations to take employee retention seriously.

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8 Entrepreneurship Principles For Anticipating Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs who rely only on traditional learning vehicles (teachers, classrooms, and risk-free practice) are doomed to failure in anticipating change today. Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything.

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Time for the tech sector to think about “Business as Unusual”

deal architect

I have seen it repeatedly, 4 years in a row. In 2020, I saw it in the pandemic stress in many execs I captured in the New Normal video series. In 2021, the Moment of Service book I helped IFS.

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5 Essential Habits For Every Successful Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Learning and honing certain skills early in one’s career will prep entrepreneurs for the best chance to thrive. Craig Goodliffe shares more. The post 5 Essential Habits For Every Successful Entrepreneur appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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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Gluecon 13: 2023

Feld Thoughts

GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. The first year that GlueCon occurred, it seemed like nearly every session began with someone defining “what cloud computing is.

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8 Signs Of A New Business Initiative And Not A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I recognize that entrepreneurs tend to substitute vision and passion for formal processes, but using no discipline or process in building something new is a sure way to spend money, rather than see any return and build a self-sustaining business.

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How MS Dynamics 365 Business Central Can Help Small Businesses Grow

YoungUpstarts

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an all-in-one business management software that allows businesses to streamline their supply chain, financial projects, project management, and process for managing customer relationships. The post How MS Dynamics 365 Business Central Can Help Small Businesses Grow appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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An Investment in Board Diversity

Feld Thoughts

Research shows that more diverse teams perform better and are more innovative than homogeneous teams. I’ve written about this before, and it’s covered extensively in my book Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. We’ve made this an operating principle at Foundry. We encourage all our portfolio companies to add multiple independent directors and build diverse boards.

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5 Business Leadership Styles To Avoid For Real Impact

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the keys to your success as a business professional and leader is your ability to nurture relationships and select associates who have the attributes to help you build your career or lead a team, rather than people who will never challenge you or may be looking out only for themselves. I have concluded as a business advisor that the right people are better than the best strategy.

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Entrepreneur Interview: Six Nations’ Jason Hill and his Winning Burger Combo

The Startup Magazine

A drive across the North American landscape inevitably leads to one of countless exit ramps that spiral onto neon-lit roads lined with fast food restaurants of every description. Traveling down these unending ribbons of culinary commerce, it’s hard to believe that some entrepreneurs believe the cheeseburger has not yet been perfected. Today, burgers come in every conceivable combination, spread across a wide range of price points.

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How A Virtual Receptionist Adds A Personal Touch To A Digital World

YoungUpstarts

A virtual receptionist is that answer, providing the personable, professional first line of customer service, adapted for the digital age. The post How A Virtual Receptionist Adds A Personal Touch To A Digital World appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Honoring Cecelia Feld on International Women’s Day 2023

Feld Thoughts

Today is International Women’s Day. Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women’s equality. Collectively we can all #EmbraceEquity. I’ve been fortunate to have many incredible women influence my life and how I think about gender and gender equity.

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Free Events, Panels, Discussions, and Parties at SXSW 2023

SiliconHills

South by Southwest is best done with an official badge. The SXSW badge lets you into all the keynote talks, panel discussions, and some of Austin’s best parties, movies, music, and more. But if you don’t have a badge, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the festivities.

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7 Proven Tactics To Grow Your Online Business 

The Startup Magazine

As the internet realm expands, so does the demand for online businesses. Whether you already have an online business or plan to start one soon, you can’t afford to let your venture get drowned out and overshadowed by other businesses. Source: Pixabay Proven Tactics This is why you must grow your online business and take it to greater heights. You need these seven proven and tested tips preparing to scale your business to help you do and achieve exactly that.

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3 Tips For Learning To Trust Yourself & Unlocking Your Greatest Potential

YoungUpstarts

Trust is an essential ingredient for happiness and a vehicle for expansion and growth. Ingrid Christensen shares three things that helped her develop trust. The post 3 Tips For Learning To Trust Yourself & Unlocking Your Greatest Potential appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Trigger Marketing: What it is, Best Practices, and Examples

crowdSPRING Blog

Follow these 7 steps to create trigger marketing campaigns that leverage people's behavior instead of relying on generic tactics.

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TheZebra.com’s Founder Adam Lyons Launches REALLY, a Mobile Phone Service with $18 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

A new mobile phone service, REALLY, announced last week that it had received $18 million in seed-stage funding. Adam Lyons, the founder of TheZebra.com, is the company’s founder and CEO. “We raised this capital to create the modern telco. REALLY is a tech company. A lifestyle brand. A movement.

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Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Consider a Personal Loan

The Startup Magazine

A personal loan is borrowed money that can be used for starting a business, debt consolidation, large purchases and emergency expenses, and much more. These loans are paid in monthly installments for a few months or more. Before taking personal loans, you may try negotiating for a lesser price or a small purchase. In this article, you’ll learn what a personal loan is, how to acquire and many personal loan uses.

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How To Increase Your Push Notifications Subscribers

YoungUpstarts

Push notifications have become an integral part of the digital marketing landscape and can help you get subscribers. The post How To Increase Your Push Notifications Subscribers appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Monday Motivation: TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great.

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Amazon Prime Video Creates an Immersive Experience at SXSW with “Prime, Texas,” Along with Other TV and Film Activations

SiliconHills

Every year, there are amazing experiences created at South by Southwest. Mr. Robot put up a Ferris Wheel at Fourth and Congress one year, and General Electric had a solar-powered carousel.

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Raising Financially Savvy Kids: A Guide to Teaching Money Management Skills

The Startup Magazine

Every parent wants to raise children who will be healthy and happy, however, in addition to these priorities, everything comes down to certain life skills that are crucial for the child to have a good life in the future. One of the most necessary skills is certainly how to save and manage money rationally, in short, financial literacy. Many children whose parents did not teach savings, finances, investment, and proper use of money later fell into various debts and had a lot of stress during thei

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Workday Microstressors Wearing You Down? Here’s How To Defuse Them

YoungUpstarts

It’s not the big catastrophes that wear us down; it’s the combined impact of lots of smaller stressful events. Michael Frisina says these microstressors trap us in lower brain thinking where fear and anxiety reign. Here’s how to defuse them before they ruin our day. The post Workday Microstressors Wearing You Down? Here’s How To Defuse Them appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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A.I.’s Window of Opportunity

Start Up Blog

Remember this iPhone advertisement? – There’s an App for that? – Of course you do. I’m sure you had a number of App ideas that you never got around to making. (we all did) Then, you saw Apps that were similar. They validated your idea, and made you kick yourself that you didn’t act quicker. Side note: There are very few things in my career that I wish I waited longer to do!

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Where is your personal finish line? ?

Berkonomics

Here is one very personal question. “Have you figured out what you want to have, or to be, when you reach the end of your personal run in this business life?” It is a fair question to ask. Most of us work in our businesses, either as managers or owners, and rarely step outside to think about how this will end in a perfect world. Investors call this discussion “exit planning” and of course they include themselves in the discussion.

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Patience vs. Impatience

OnlyOnce

Patience and Impatience are both critical tools in the founder toolbelt. That sounds kind of funny since they’re at odds with each other. Let me explain. Patience is hard, but there are some things that require it. As they say metaphorically about Product, nine women can’t make a baby in a month. Products needs to be built, tested in the wild, marinate with clients.

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Simple Tips To Improve Your Concentration Skills

YoungUpstarts

Are you struggling to stay focused throughout the day? Read on for some easy tips you can use right away to boost your focus and productivity! The post Simple Tips To Improve Your Concentration Skills appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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SXSW Pitch Competition Features 40 finalists Including Three From Austin and one From San Antonio

SiliconHills

The SXSW Pitch competition has selected 40 finalists for its 15th annual SXSW Pitch Competition. “Since its inception, SXSW Pitch has been front row to some of the most ambitious startups from around the world, using creative ideas to change their industry’s future,” SXSW Pitch Event Producer Chris Valentine said in a news release.

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7 Strategies For Accelerating Growth In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The military has long recognized that machine guns are force multipliers for rifles, but businesses have been slow to capitalize on this concept. Sometimes all the planning in the world isn’t enough for business survival, when things change as fast as they do today. Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market.

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Weekend Favs March 4

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs March 4 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but I encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one I took on the road.

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Why Using Pop-up Subscription Forms Are Important For Any Business

YoungUpstarts

Pop-up subscription forms are an excellent way to collect email addresses for your newsletter or other marketing campaigns. You want to know why? Let’s read this article! The post Why Using Pop-up Subscription Forms Are Important For Any Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Builders + Backers, an Accelerator that Backs Idea Stage Entrepreneurs, will be at SXSW 2023

SiliconHills

Sponsored Post Builders + Backers, an accelerator program that backs entrepreneurs at the idea stage, finds, funds, and equips builders nationwide. “We want to put more ideas into action,” said Kathleen Hale, COO of Builders + Backers.

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6 Tips to Grow Your Cleaning Company

Our Own Start-up

Starting a cleaning business can be both exciting and daunting. Here are six tips to help you grow your cleaning company. The post 6 Tips to Grow Your Cleaning Company first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Unveiling The Mystery Of Effective Selling

Duct Tape Marketing

Unveiling The Mystery Of Effective Selling written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with David Newman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview David Newman. He’s the founder of the Do It! MBA mentoring program and the host of The Selling Show, a top-rated business podcast. He is the author of the business bestseller Do It!

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How To Avoid A Pallet Racking Collapse 

YoungUpstarts

Create a safe working environment for your warehouse workers. Make sure to take measures to prevent pallet racking collapse. The post How To Avoid A Pallet Racking Collapse appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Using Little Tools to Keep Productivity High

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Productivity is in the power of the person doing the work. In an office environment or at home, ensuring we have the right tools to keep productivity high is critical. You don’t need to use fancy tech to help you focus. In fact, there are a few simple things you can access and change that will make all of the difference. The Right Distractions The concept of deep work is something that can be fleeting in a modern office space or even at home.

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