Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving, and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-priced provider of their product. Yet other entrepreneurs will talk for hours about all their ideas, and how they intend to change the world, but I don’t hear any specific goals or milestones. Many people are very hesitant to set specific goals, due to lack of self-confidence or whatever.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Starting an online business requires you to be extremely smart because 9 out of 10 startups fail and just 10 percent are lucky to enjoy the sweet taste of success. But there are essentials your online startup needs to follow. There are certain things that most of the startups fail to recognize. They either follow a […]. The post 7 Essentials Your Online Startup Needs to Follow appeared first on ReadWrite.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

There comes a time in every start-up’s existence where it must pack up in the office for a few days and head to its first trade show. This kind of venture is a must whether you, as your business’s owner, feel particularly confident about it or not, as it’ll provide your organization with the exposure it truly needs to grow. Source: Pexels. You can’t just pitch up at a trade show and expect everything to go your way, though.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

by Saeju Jeong, CEO and Co-founder of Noom Coach. Many friends who start a new business together often end up going their separate ways, leaving the company to collapse and the relationship to turn sour. However, this isn’t to say that a partnership – and new business – can’t last if handled correctly. I should know – I’ve done it.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

For decades, efforts to satisfy customers have been built around demographics – capitalizing on race, ethnicity, gender, income, and other attributes. Today, in this age of pervasive social media and two-way communication, the focus needs to get beyond demographics into personalities. Customer personalities define customer experience, and sets what they love, and what they hate.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When one starts a business there is rarely someone available to guide you through every possible twist and turn. To give you a head start and to help you avoid some of the pitfalls along the way, I interviewed 5 amazing thought leaders in the Healthcare Staffing Industry. These are individuals who are truly steering the pack with their excellence in operations, experience, and revolutionary ideas. 1.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Starting a business is difficult enough, but starting out alongside full time employment is incredibly difficult. However, it can be equally rewarding and can lead to you being able to take more control of your life and focus entirely on what may become your sole income. Unlike working full time in a 9 – 5 job as most people do, running your own business provides challenges, uncertainty and difficult learning curves which need to be overcome in order to succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I often wonder how many more startups would succeed if their founders could master the art and science of delegation. It seems inherent in the mind of most first-time entrepreneurs that it was their idea, and they must do all the work themselves to make it happen. In my role as mentor and advisor to many founders, I consistently fail in convincing them of the power in wise delegation.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Starting up a business requires a lot of different steps. First-time entrepreneurs and small business founders often feel anxious when they think about all the factors that play into getting their idea off the ground. Plus, it can seem like success or failure hinges on finding deep-pockets funders, expert mentors, ample press coverage, and other “champions.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Smart businesses know that people, especially millennials and Gen Z, are increasingly concerned about the environment. In fact, a 2017 peer-reviewed study in the Lancet revealed that pollution continues to be a major global health concern. In response to this global trend, businesses are adopting environmentally-friendly strategies when they design products, product packaging, and when marketing their business.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Economic Development and the “Home Run” Complex. Amazon has finally made a decision about it’s new HQ. I have to say I’m a bit awestruck at how much time and energy was wasted by so many cities and regions around the country, only to have Amazon do the obvious thing and go with the world capitals for corporate HQ’s — New York and Washington.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Using Technology to Build Connections in the Real World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dan Schawbel. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with Dan Schawbel. He is a New York Times bestselling author, partner and research director at Future Workplace , and founder of both WorkplaceTrends.com and Millennial Branding.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Image via TechCrunch. What’s a non-emergency medical transportation business? NEMT services help people get to pre-scheduled healthcare appointments, including doctor visits, rehab, clinical testing, follow-up exams, and more. The demand for safe and reliable public transportation for people with medical issues and disabilities, particularly in rural communities, continues to grow at remarkable rates.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2018

There are lots of trends converging to influence the workforce and workplace of tomorrow. I have written about new job titles as automation influences every profession, new co-working sites, the demography in booming small towns. I thought it would be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

It pays big dividends to network with peers and others if you want to succeed in business. You need to get guidance before you start a new venture, connections to investors as you seek funding to scale the business, and expansion and exit insights as the business matures. Just as importantly, your business network can actually make a sometimes lonely role enjoyable.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Having a life insurance plan to be your financial aid in times of medical emergencies is crucial for each and every person. In India, there are a number of health insurance companies that are now providing affordable health insurance plans that can be easily bought by individuals who earn a basic amount of salary. There are also different types of health insurance plans that are offered to the people which each have their own unique set of properties and purposes behind them.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Have you ever been to a fast-moving square dance? Partners dance together, spin around a time or two, and then move onto new partners. As the dance progresses, some people return to their original partners, while others will dance once and leave the floor. If you pay attention, this resembles a fast-emerging business strategy that […]. The post Dancing in the Co-Economy: Are you Square Dancing or Foxtrotting?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

TNW and Adyen’s annual Tech5 competition is back again. Every day, startups prove individuals can harness the power of technology to actually create change and have a positive impact on society. Here at TNW, we believe these silent innovators deserve their time in the spotlight. So for the sixth time, together with our partner Adyen, TNW is on the hunt for the fastest-growing startups in Europe and Israel to showcase at TNW Conference 2019. … Except this year we’re going big… In the past, only s

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

While the willingness and ability to change is recognized and espoused by every business owner or founder I am asked to advise, far too many of you seem to be stuck in a rut, or very slow to actually decide what changes are necessary to survive and thrive. You may not be blind to the changing market and technology, but being blind to internal traps that can be just as devastating.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

by Meg Myers Morgan, PhD, author of “ The Best Story Wins: How to Leverage Hollywood Storytelling in Business and Beyond “ When I first took my position as the leader of a graduate program within a flagship university, I launched what I lovingly called the “Take You to Lunch Tour.” During this period, I called up anyone and everyone in my network and said, “Hey, can I take you to lunch?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Wanting to start a career in design? Here are some tips…. For some, it allows people to use their creative flair and generate something that they’re proud of, and it’s often shown off to others as part of promotional material. So, how can you secure a job in this sector? Together with Where The Trade Buys, retailers of foamex signs , we take a look at the different roles that are out there and the best way of starting a career in design: What type of design roles exist?

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

When it comes to SEO, your goal is to get your company website to the top of the search engine results pages. Hack your way to the top with these tips.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Fred Wilson’s ‘ Pivot or Fail ‘ post earlier this week was especially timely for me. Now that my friend Jason Jacobs shared his own experience of winding down Two Way Labs , I can more easily contribute my opinion with a specific example. As Jason wrote : . Across our first 45 core investments (Funds I and II), we’ve had three winddowns which come to mind.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

by Monica, founder of OAW. The odds are often stacked against entrepreneurs. It’s a known fact that success rate of start-ups is abysmally low. If there is one Amazon, then there would be 100 failed to-be Amazons. But even then thousands of entrepreneurs start afresh every year to live their dream. Being a women and having built 2 online start-ups, I have realized that with better preparation odds can be tipped to a certain level.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The rise of the side business. Nowadays, having more than one job is becoming more popular, with a fifth of workers in the UK considering the opportunity — especially the millennial generation. The term ‘side hustle’ was originally coined in the 1950s and is defined as ‘a way to make money from your passion, interest or hobby’. However, it’s said that the idea of supplemental work has been around for centuries, with freelance work dating back to the 18 th century when the word was used to descri

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Have you fallen into unproductive habit traps? Here's how to identify common habits that make you extremely unproductive and eliminate them.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Kronologic has created software that turns sales leads into meetings automatically. Through automation, bots and artificial intelligence, Kronologic’s software moves the conversation to the calendar, said Trey Allison, the company’s co-founder. “Let’s get to the yes quick or let’s get to the no quick and let’s cut […].

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Investments are good to be made. They can help you save for the future. Most of us want to make an investment that would give us high returns. An investment is made to get better returns in the future. One can invest in any form like in a real estate, in finance, in business, in insurance so on and so forth. The returns from the same will help the investor in future with whatever they have invested for.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Finding money is the biggest hurdle that start-ups face in their quest to open their doors. All the planning , sourcing, and strategizing comes to naught if there’s not enough cash available to get everything done. That means knocking on doors and filling out loan applications to get the cash needed, but that’s not always the easiest way to get funding.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In this digital age it’s hard to understand why so many small businesses still use manual time tracking when the benefits of automatic tracking are clear.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Most of us don’t have a ton of time to sift through everything to find the best ideas on the internet, on top of all our other obligations. And I don’t know about you, but my inbox is more crowded every day. S o, I’m always on the lookout for the best email newsletters—the ones I can rely on to be the right combination of informative and truly insightful, especially for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

by Solomon Ali, Co-Founder of Revolutionary Concepts. What entrepreneur looking to hit it big isn’t searching for that next “patentable” idea? Your appetite has probably been whetted just reading that first sentence. Thoughts of unending royalty streams pouring into your bank account, the opportunity to create generational wealth and leaving your indelible mark on humanity all make obtaining that next big patent an irresistible and worthy goal.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

What we can learn from the UK’s top franchises. Franchises are popping up everywhere – that’s the whole point of them. Whether it’s an automotive company, a fast-food establishment, or a chain of pubs, many business hopefuls use franchising as their route to market. There are currently over 120 industries that have franchised companies, with the franchisee normally receiving help with their site selection and development support, operating manuals, brand standards , quality control, training and

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Social media marketing can work well with any digital marketing strategy, including pay per click (PPC) ads. Here's how to make it happen.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

If you feel that the top people at your startup could be more productive, you are probably right. There are lots of tasks that could be automated, outsourced or delegated to less experienced people. Here are some important business tasks you need to consider. Dealing with Mail. A study published on Inc.com found that the average employee spends more than 13 hours looking at emails each week.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Whether you are between jobs or in the process of starting your own business, you may find yourself in need of extra cash to supplement your income. When money is tight, the quality of life can really suffer and you could even find yourself in a position where you struggle to keep up with your existing financial commitments. However, by finding ways to make extra cash or even set up your own business from home, you can look forward to bringing in more money.

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