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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day.

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MyMonero Wallet – Review And Complete Guide

YoungUpstarts

MyMonero is ultimately the most refined wallet for investors seeking lightweight options. It’s a decentralized cryptocurrency run through a network of users signifying the system is highly protected. Entire transactions are executed through a spread out consensus, and without alterations, they are registered on the blockchain. This wallet utilizes private ring transactions, stealth addresses, and ring signatures to consolidate the amounts, sources, and the intended target of the transactio

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The Should-How Fallacy (Or Why “Correct” Isn’t “Useful”)

ConversionXL

Get a chicken. Cook it until it’s perfectly done. Reduce the jus to a nice pan sauce. Then finish it with some butter until it has the right balance of flavors. Enjoy. This is a useless recipe, but it’s not wrong. It assumes, however, that accurate advice on what you should do is as valuable as advice on how to do it—the “Should-How Fallacy.” But being right doesn’t create value; empowering others to succeed does.

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Top 6 Reasons Marketing Consultants Are Needed

The Startup Magazine

Are you getting the desired results from your marketing campaigns? Are you doing everything you can to boost your sales? Do you have a competent team that can handle your brand? Do you require to scale up your marketing strategies to meet expected targets? The business world is a highly competitive place. Business owners are struggling to meet targets, find new customers , and retain existing customers.

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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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27 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Eliminate Stress And Reboot For Change In 2021

YoungUpstarts

by Joel Patterson , the founder of The Vested Group and author of “ The Big Commitment: Solving The Mysteries Of Your ERP Implementation “ As a challenging year winds down, companies are sifting through what worked and what didn’t as they prepare to reboot for 2021 after dealing with the many difficulties brought on by the pandemic. And if a business is planning significant changes in its operations in the New Year, the leadership team’s empathy for the workforce is vital in the proc

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Why 70% of Small Businesses Could Be Blindsided By Google’s Next Update

The Startup Magazine

Did you know that only about 30% of small business websites are currently mobile-friendly? That means that about 70% of the small business owners out there need to do something about that right away. Mobile-friendliness has always been an important part of SEO. This is why Google switched to mobile-first indexing a few years ago. That’s when most small business owners should have ensured that their mobile site performance was good.

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How to Optimize a Startup for Remote Work

ReadWriteStart

Increasingly, startups are adopting a fully remote work model. With no headquarters, no central office, and no physical location for operations, startups rely entirely on digital forms of production and communication. Here is how to optimize a startup for remote work. It’s a viable model and potentially a very profitable, efficient, and fulfilling one for everyone involved.

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The Lodging And Travel Industries Will Reckon With A Multi-Year COVID-19 Event Horizon: 2021 Lodging Trends & Predictions

YoungUpstarts

by Pamela Knudsen, Director of Compliance Services for Avalara MyLodgeTax. As the world struggles to control the spread of Covid-19, the travel and lodging sectors continue to navigate the unprecedented turbulence and major business challenges delivered by 2020. The U.S. is showing a 50 percent decline year-over-year in digital travel sales, which are not expected to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels until 2022.

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How to Leverage UX Best Practices to Increase Sales Conversions

Up and Running

Whether you have an established business website or you’re just starting your business , optimizing your user experience (UX) should be at the forefront of your mind. Your user experience can delight your customers, pushing them to spend more or increase your average conversion across your website. . On average you have around 3-5 seconds to make a good first impression and capture your visitor’s attention.

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How to Make Your Business Grow Huge in 2021

The Startup Magazine

The year 2021 is set to be a very prosperous year. Having braced ourselves for the countless setbacks caused by the novel Coronavirus outbreak, we are ready to make big waves in this coming year. The 2021 business spirit is adaptive. It is driven, spirited, and does not take no for an answer. There is nothing but success to be had in the year 2021 for business.

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7 Tips For Surviving Your Tough Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy for an entrepreneur or a CEO to feel like a leader when things are going well, but the challenge is to keep that confidence and drive in the face of economic downturns, business turnarounds, and stressful personnel situations. Working twenty hours a day, losing your cool, and falling back to a no-risk strategy are not conducive to long-term success.

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Best Practices for Nonprofit Board Oversight

Board Effect

It’s often only after someone joins a nonprofit board that they suddenly realize the full weight of their duties and responsibilities. Before someone accepts a position on a nonprofit board, they need to be aware that nonprofits have been under a great deal of scrutiny in recent years—much more so than ever before. It goes without saying that nonprofit boards are accountable and liable for the decisions and activities of the organization.

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New Normal: A conversation with Bruce Bond of Common Ground Committee

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of C-level executives about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 and related financial, diversity and other crises and the "New normal" they can expect going.

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How banks are developing apps for their customers

The Startup Magazine

Nowadays, almost everything can already be done online. Emails have largely replaced the traditional snail mail, people from all over the world can communicate with other people using social media applications, and even grocery shopping can be done online. Examples of what can be done online include the paying of bills, applying in different agencies, photo or video editing, and even mobile banking application development , which is creating a whole mobile finance ecosystem.

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Make it Real – Write it Down

Start Up Blog

Things of value need to be held onto and protected. Some things become more valuable the longer we hang onto them, or when we put them to use and unlock their potential. Our thoughts are one of these things. There’s a good friend I speak to nearly every day. We chat about life, business and technology. We’ve arrived at the conclusion that we come up with our best ideas when bouncing off each other on the phone.

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6 Expansion Realities To Penetrate Worldwide Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

With the availability of high-speed Internet and social media access around the world, it’s easy for entrepreneurs to assume that the world is just one big homogeneous market, and project their business will scale accordingly. Nothing could be further from the truth. Large businesses, as well as small, still fail often by not addressing the very real cultural, economic and political differences.

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How to Stand Out in a Largely Unregulated Energy Industry

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Moving into the energy industry was a smart move. Today, the profit margins are high, especially for companies willing to invest in green technologies to help save the planet. However, the fact that the sector is somewhat unregulated means there is plenty of competition and high market saturation rates. Therefore, it’s hard for customers and clients to choose a brand they can trust, so engagement can be low.

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Electric Hoist Advantages for Your Industrial Business

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to lifting and moving heavy objects from place to place, hoists are exactly what you need. In various forms, sizes, and styles, hoists have been used for many years all across the globe in an array of industries and conditions, and in the modern era, hoist parts are better than ever, made from the strongest materials and often powered electrically to offer the highest possible standards of performance.

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How To Build Up A Real Estate Investment Portfolio In 2021

YoungUpstarts

by Mateo Monsalve Molina , Founder and CEO of Loyalty Property Advisors. Warren Buffett, the notorious business tycoon, once said: “Be greedy when the others are fearful,” and one would hardly find a more timeless quote when it comes to investment. After all, it perfectly fits the current situation as well. While many of us are holding our breath, savvy investors are already dividing the biggest pieces of the property market pie.

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6 Reasons To Ease Into The Entrepreneur Startup Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

There has long been a big debate about the best approach to starting a new business. Some argue the only way to start is to drop everything and jump in with both feet, while others recommend an overlapped approach to the lifestyle, including not quitting your day job until you have revenue and a proven business model. I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach.

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Burning Platform: Wall Street and Enterprise Software

deal architect

Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series - see index here. For the next few episodes, I will be joined by guest analysts and industry observers. Rob Kugel, SVP & Research Director of Office of Finance.

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How to be successful when setting up your own business

The Startup Magazine

It used to be said that our twenties were for hustling, but given rising age expectancy in the UK , this rule could arguably be extended into the thirties and even forties in some instances. With this in mind, the notion of launching a new business venture is now more accessible than ever before, and a growing number of people are moving into the world of entrepreneurship throughout the UK.

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Valuable Tips For Creating Effective Video Advertising

YoungUpstarts

by Hank Frecon, the chief executive officer of Source Digital. People love to watch videos. In fact, YouTube reports that there are over 500 hours of content uploaded to the site every minute. It also reports that every day, people watch over a billion hours of video on the website. The fact is that for smart marketers, video advertising is a literal goldmine.

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8 Qualities That All Super Business Leaders Display

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost every employee or team member can remember that one special boss in their career who was the role model of a leader, always commanded respect, and was able to get the most voluntarily from everyone all the time. Every entrepreneur and business executive I know wants to emulate that boss, but most can’t even describe the attributes required. They know these exceptional leaders seem to have a way of finding and enticing the best people into the organization, getting exceptional performance

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The Analyst Cam: Model N Revenue Execution

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. In June, I had interviewed Jason Blessing, CEO of Model N. He had.

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The pros and cons of “digital by default”

Version One Ventures

As we all know, the pandemic has forced companies to become remote organizations virtually overnight. While some CEOs and companies cannot wait until the conditions are safe for everyone to return to the office (e.g. Reid Hastings from Netflix ), others have chosen to become “digital by default.” (e.g. Shopify ). . Several companies in our portfolio have opted for Shopify’s path, and I wanted to u nderstand what those companies have learned so far about the challenges and opportunities.

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The Ultimate Commercial Refrigeration Maintenance Checklist For Your Food Business

YoungUpstarts

Customers might not realize it, but restaurants are high-volume, high-pressure environments that strive to give each customer the best in every bite. Behind the scenes, restaurant kitchens rely on trusty commercial appliances that allow them to store, prepare, and serve food safely and efficiently. But the daily service rush often comes at a hidden cost: the long-term health and function of commercial appliances like refrigerators, to the point of a breakdown.

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Business Bah Humbug!

Rembrandt Communications

Are you turning into a “Scrooge”? Ah yes. It’s that time of year when holiday goodies are everywhere, the smell of pine and gingerbread is in the air and people are in a cheery mood. There is a multitude of peace and goodwill, right? As an entrepreneur, you know that this is often far from the truth. It’s more like a mad rush to organize taxes and budgeting, finish year-end projects and do everything necessary to get ready for the holidays.

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The Analyst Cam: Rimini Street Database Support Survey

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series.

Database 195
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@bfeld v55.0

Feld Thoughts

Simply begin again. A year ago, I wrote in my v54.0 post that I’d decided not to have any goals for the year ahead. Instead of having goals, I wrote: I’m embracing the moment. Every moment. Simply being in the moment. Being present with whomever I’m with or whatever I’m doing. But that’s not a goal. I know I’ll drift – regularly – just like my mind does when I meditate.

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Why Inner Peace Is The Workplace Skill You Didn’t Know You Needed

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change “ No doubt about it: The world is loud, chaotic, and outright scary. And with a pandemic piled on top of political/social/economic upheaval piled on top of “normal” disruptors like AI advancements that change everything about the way we work, it’s only going to get more so.

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Little essentials all entrepreneurs need to succeed

The Startup Magazine

So, you’ve got an idea and you’ve got the capital. The business name and logo are in the bag and you’re ready to go. Establishing yourself as an entrepreneur is both exciting and challenging, however, whilst you’re busy considering your marketing strategy, building your dream website and creating high-quality SEO content, it’s easy to forget about the other entrepreneur essentials you might need.

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How to Create Multiple Revenue Streams in a Tech Startup

ReadWriteStart

Revenue is the lifeblood of your tech startup. Without a stream of income, you won’t be able to cover your most basic expenses, including your team members’ salaries and your office lease. But too many startup tech entrepreneurs focus on a single revenue stream—a primary source of income that will exclusively sustain the business. This model won’t necessarily doom your startup to failure.

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1000 Holograms on Your Desk

Feld Thoughts

“Either this is madness or it is Hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open your eye once again and try to look steadily.” -Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Anyone who has read this blog knows that I’m not a fan of prognostications. In a collision of complex systems like what we are all living through right now, predicting the future is especially pointless.

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Is Cox Internet A Safe Choice?

YoungUpstarts

As a modern consumer, you cannot afford to go all out on ridiculously high-end services, what with the rising rates of the telecom market and the ever-turbulent economy. You have to take each step carefully and analyze your options before making the purchase. You also need to learn how to balance your wants with your needs and then act on them in the wisest way possible.

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