Sat.Oct 03, 2020 - Fri.Oct 09, 2020

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[Interview] Michael C. Fillios, Author Of “Tech Debt 2.0™: How To Future Proof Your Small Business And Improve Your Tech Bottom Line”  

YoungUpstarts

To stay competitive in our digital world, small and medium-sized businesses need to be equipped with and proficient in the latest technologies. Yet, unlike large companies, most SMBs lack the resources to staff an IT department. Along with lack of oversight, outdated software or hardware, inadequate cybersecurity, or one bad tech investment could seal the demise of a small enterprise.

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How to Start SEO Audit For a New Website

The Startup Magazine

SEO is constantly evolving. Search engines are always changing their algorithms to match new search patterns. What this means is that businesses have to constantly review their SEO practices so as not to get left behind. This is what necessitates the SEO audit. What is the SEO Audit? The SEO audit refers to a comprehensive process used to identify any issues with your website capable of affecting your ranking and reducing traffic to your site and suggests ways to optimize the website.

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Esports and Money in 2020

VC Cafe

We’re very excited about the potential of Esports at Remagine Ventures. Apart from the cultural phenomenon and increased viewership of Esports, like any other professional sport, there’s also a business aspect. So what’s the relationship between Esports and money and where does it stand in 2020? A recent McKinsey report focused on the potential Esports represents for brands prompted me to dig deeper.

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5 Essential Inbound Marketing Tools for Startups and Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Startups and entrepreneurs have a unique challenge they need to face to effectively promote their solutions in a digital environment. The days of creating amazing content, paying for advertisement, and then leaning back on your chair to get great results are essentially over. Here are five essential inbound marketing tools for startups and entrepreneurs.

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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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How Startup Company Inflatable Anything Is Changing The Custom Inflatable Industry

YoungUpstarts

The custom inflatable industry has been growing at an exponential rate in recent years. Its success can be attributed to the high public demand to make every party and event truly memorable. From garden parties to baby showers, charity events, and trade shows, inflatable show pieces are becoming a creative way to get everyone talking about your occasion.

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How To Find The Best Atlassian Plugins, Addons, and Marketplace Apps

The Startup Magazine

With all the work we have to do, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything. In a team, people expect you to always be in check with your role and the tasks you have to do. You expect the same from them as well as you all strive to fulfill the organization’s goals and objectives. In realizing these, you want your team and organization to be innovative, creative, adaptive, and organized as ever.

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Why Customer Relationships Are the Key to a Successful Restaurant

Up and Running

What is it about your favorite restaurant that always makes you come back? Is it the quality of the food? Reasonable prices? Maybe the location is incredibly convenient? Sure, all of those things are important for running a successful restaurant , but they often don’t matter if one thing isn’t handled properly. Customer service. Think again about your favorite place to dine out and why you like it so much.

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3 Tips For Developing A Sky-High Growth Plan

YoungUpstarts

by Karen Hayward, Chief Outsiders Managing Partner and CMO, and author of “ Stop Random Acts of Marketing: Deliberate & Practical Growth Strategies for Mid-Market CEOs “ Middle market companies are ambitious to grow, and they need the right marketing strategy that can guide the whole enterprise to new heights. Ask any CEO if they want “marketing” and they’ll nod and speak to the value of an attractive website, a recent trade show, or their latest brochure.

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Looking for a Robust Consulting Career With Financial Software?

The Startup Magazine

The days of punching a time clock or relying on benefits from a single employer company are long gone. The trend is toward consulting as a career, and those who are moving into this type of career are realizing that they must become proficient in financial software. An ERP consultant is a specialist who can help companies implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as financial management software.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain The Role A Coach Plays in Their Business

Hearpreneur

Business coaches are instrumental people in the start and growth of one’s business. Right from writing your story, attracting/retaining clients and the survival of your business. They can help sharpen your skills and take up a lot more roles. Many entrepreneurs attribute their success to the mere factor that they had a business coach guide them through the process.

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How to Improve Your PR Content Online

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Improve Your PR Content Online written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Farzad Rashidi. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Farzad Rashidi Co-founder of Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link building software that combines personalization with productivity. Farzad Rashidi is also the Director of Marketing at Visme.

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The Analyst Cam: Plex Systems Dataset - COVID-19 impact on Global Manufacturing

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. Jerry Foster, CTO at Plex Systems walked me through anonymized customer manufacturing data from.

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Don’t Make Business Decisions Based Only On Intuition

Startup Professionals Musings

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Sourcing, Acquiring and Deploying Technology for Modern War.

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Board Evaluations: The Complete Guide for Nonprofits

Board Effect

When you serve on a nonprofit board, you’re invested in the cause and naturally, you want to give your best performance to ensure your nonprofit thrives. Best practices for governance suggest that boards, including nonprofit boards, should do nonprofit board evaluations every year. This is the key to improving your performance every year. By making regular self-evaluations a standard practice, stakeholders will view your board as more competent.

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The Analyst Cam: Neeley Board of Advisors, TCU

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. This time it is not a vendor, but a Business School. The world of.

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5 Keys To Pushing Past The Mental Terror Of A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “ terror barrier ,” as popularized by Bob Proctor, a 85-year-old millionaire and world renowned entrepreneur. This is the imaginary barrier that always seems to appear at the critical point where we would step out ahead of peers or competitors, but fear causes us to stop short. Everyone has a comfort zone, or level of risk, where they feel in control.

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Model Building from the Ground Up

ConversionXL

After receiving a $500k budget increase, someone in the C-suite must decide where to allocate these funds: remarketing budget, R&D, events, website redesign, etc. What should they do? Do they need more information to decide? Even with new information, will that clarify the percentage allocation of funds? As consumer needs and technology become increasingly complex, so too do the decisions.

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The Austin State of Entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

[link] The Austin State of Entrepreneurship Hear some of Austin’s most successful entrepreneurs share their wins and challenges, plus, you’ll meet some of our accelerator programs and their companies. Hear more stories like theirs, and discover the extensiveness of Austin’s startup community by watching the entire State of Entrepreneurship at the top or the clips below.

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How Non-Partisan Business Leaders Can Help Fix America

David Teten

10 non-partisan action steps for investors and executives to help fix our broken political process. Almost everyone agrees that the American political system is dysfunctional. You love our country, and you want to do something about it. But, becoming politically active can be a challenge, particularly if you’re in a business leadership role. No matter how passionately you feel about your political position, you may be constrained in taking a public stance.

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8 Keys To Attracting More Talent Than The Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

Due to the pervasive Internet, the scope of most successful startup teams today has become global. Also, more people are only available to work remotely , especially with the current pandemic. The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction.

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The Untold Benefits Of Optimizing Your Website For Mobile

YoungUpstarts

by Samuel Johnson, Managing Director at Mercury IT Solutions. The Internet is an ever-changing beast, and it is in a business’ best interest to flow with it. Nowadays, the average Internet user is able to access the web in an array of different ways. Aside from the average computer – tablets, watches, games consoles and, of course, mobile phones, are all exceedingly popular ways for visitors to find your website.

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Dr. Oksana Malysheva Helps Propel Startups at Sputnik ATX

Austin Startup

“Austin is Silicon Valley’s cooler, younger sibling that is on the rise” says Sputnik ATX Managing Partner and CEO Dr. Oksana Malysheva. “I predict investors will lend more of their attention to startups launching here.” The Forrest Files: October 1, 2020 Dr. Oksana Malysheva is an Austin-based investor, entrepreneur and business executive. She is the Managing Partner and CEO of Sputnik ATX , an accelerator that funds and mentors early-stage startup companies.

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

It seems like investors are especially obsessed with the psychology of decision making — high stakes, after all — but all kinds of decisions, whether in life or business — like dating, product management, what to eat or watch on Netflix — are an “investment portfolio” of decisions… even if you sometimes feel like you’re making one big decision at a time (like, say, marriage or what product to develop next or who to hire).

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5 Ways To Get Beyond Early Adopters For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I would guess that most of you are early adopters , just by the fact that you are interested enough to come here and see what’s new in the business world. Every entrepreneur and startup loves you, but too many forget that every potential customer is not like you. In fact, early adopters represent only a small percent of the total opportunity, and may derail your mainstream effort.

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4 Easy Ways to Motivate Your Team

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Did you know that disengaged workers cost the economy more than $300 billion each year? Unmotivated employees are not only bad for business, but if you truly care about your employees, knowing they are disengaged can be concerning for their wellbeing, too. There are plenty of reasons why employees might feel unmotivated at work. Maybe they feel underappreciated or unrecognized.

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How To Thrive Amidst Change & Disruption In The Short-Term Rental Industry

YoungUpstarts

by Pamela Knudsen, Director of Compliance Services for Avalara MyLodgeTax. With millions of Americans itching to get away from the friendly confines of their homes, the short-term rental option is perhaps more attractive than ever. While many people are still squeamish about crowds and looking to avoid hotels, resorts and airplanes, but in need of a getaway and change of pace, an overwhelming majority favors a simple, safe and drivable vacation.

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An epidemic (of content) during the pandemic

deal architect

My two blogs, Deal Architect and New Florence have averaged 800 posts a year over the 15 years they have been running. 7 books have added another 2,000 pages. A subtle shift occurred during the last two quarters which reflect.

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A Guide to Marketplaces: Third Edition

Version One Ventures

We’re thrilled to announce the third edition of “A Guide to Marketplaces.” We published our first edition five years ago and the second nearly three years ago. So much has changed since then – from the rise of B2B marketplaces to new crypto-native platforms. . Even as we explore emerging sectors like climate and crypto, we continue to be excited about marketplaces.

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Frank Roach Dentist Shares Important Steps to Follow Before Opening Your Own Dental Practice

The Startup Magazine

Do you want to start your own dental practice? There are many factors that you should consider. There are many opportunities for starting a dental practice. From routine services such as cleaning and filling cavities to cosmetic dentistry such as implants and whitening services, there is a lot that you can do as a dentist. As we speak, the demand for these dental services is on the rise.

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Why Working With A Collection Agency Is Worth Every Penny

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve ever had the bad luck of having outstanding bills that debtors wouldn’t pay, you know how much of a hassle it can be to contact them time and time again in the hopes of getting them to pay. If all your tries haven’t resulted in anything, it’s time to change your tactics. Hiring a collection agency (Dutch: incassobureau inschakelen ) can help you out.

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Burning Platform: Episode 4 - The WTF about WFH

deal architect

Most companies did a remarkable job moving tens of thousands of employees to WFH settings.

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VC Fund Returns Are More Skewed Than You Think

VC Adventure

Some of the most popular posts I’ve written over the past couple of years were the two that focused on just how rare outsized returns for an individual deal are in venture capital. You can see the original posts here and here. In those posts I was analyzing data from Correlation Ventures that showed just how skewed venture returns are, specifically that 65% of investment rounds fail to return 1x capital and only 4% return greater than 10x capital.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3 – Anja Manuel

Steve Blank

We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Sourcing, Acquiring and Deploying Technology for Modern War.

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How To Build High Quality Backlinks To A New Website

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve just launched a brand new website, you’re in desperate need of some quick traffic. You have no clout in the search rankings and you’re entirely reliant on paid traffic. But it doesn’t have to be this way for long. With a commitment to sound SEO principles, you can improve your search rankings and watch your organic traffic surge over time.

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New Normal: A repeat conversation with Bill Berutti and Jerry Foster of Plex

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives 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.

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