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10 Important Hiring Tips for Startups in Post COVID Era

ReadWriteStart

One major reason is that unless you don’t put effort into hiring the right talent, the operational functions suffer. Eventually, that impacts the organization’s performance. However, it is important to plan your hiring campaigns with a specific purpose when the economy is down amid the pandemic. Right from the costs, several openings to creating an experience to retain your best employees, everything is important.

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How to Measure Small Business Website Performance

Up and Running

How do you know that your business is growing and that everything is working as it should? To answer this question, you need to have a set of metrics that give you a clear picture of what’s going on in your business. Likewise, your website , the digital representation of your business, and the means through which people find you and connect with you, also needs to have metrics in place to know how it’s doing.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

I’ve previously written about Clubhouse ( What makes Clubhouse great and what may cause its demise ). Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there

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WordPress vs Webflow

ConversionXL

Whether you’re running a consultant agency or building a startup, your content and brand need a home for everything you produce. From sales pages to your products, or even your About page, the content management system you choose can make a big difference in growing your business and driving sales. While WordPress may be the most well known CMS in the world, Webflow continues to establish itself as a powerful alternative for established and upcoming brands.

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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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What Rap and Business Have in Common

ReadWriteStart

UC Berkeley students from the M.E.T. program (Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology) approached me recently to speak about my experience in business. Though I am approaching my 50’s — I have always been in business. I am a long-time CEO with businesses in Montreal, New York and San Francisco. Currently, I am CEO for the Important.com company — working to improve public safety in smart cities and in automotive.

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How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

Up and Running

There’s never been a better time to start an SEO business. In this day and age, SEO is all but essential to businesses. It’s crucial for helping brands get seen by the right customers at the right time. Consequently, starting an SEO business can be a lucrative venture. But with so much competition, it takes time and effort to successfully grow an SEO agency that stands out against your competitors.

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7 New Venture Strategies Improve The Odds Of Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m always looking for evidence of early startup characteristics that might be predictors of long-term success. Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and publis

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Mastering VFX: Ways That Can Help You Get Proficient in Less Time

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you have been trying to dabble into filmmaking for some time, then you must know that along with the conventional styles, the popularity of VFX has been on the rise. You may be still unknown to the terminology, but do not worry as we can help you with that. The added visual effects result from a process in which the imagery is artificially created or manipulated.

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Channel Overload

Start Up Blog

Social researcher Robin Dunbar concluded it isn’t possible for humans to maintain relationships with any more than 150 people, with only 50 of them being close connections. Known as Dunbar’s number , this is why people drop out of your life as new people enter it. It’s easy to see when you look back. There are only so many people we can pay close attention to.

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Burning Platform: Workday Nation

deal architect

In the 44th episode of the series we have Webb Armentrout, Group VP, Global Partners at Workday. Workday has historically done a better job managing its SI ecosystem than many other vendors including some I have written books about. They.

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8 Key Startup Drivers Bring Pleasure As Well As Sweat

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m fully convinced that both inspiration and perspiration are always required in a startup. Yet many people seem to be stuck on one end or other of this equation – all perspiration with no dream, or all inspiration with no reality. Success is the right balance of both for fun and profit. Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them.

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Increasing Your Retail Sales: Digital Price Tags and Other Trending Ways to Bump Up Your Sales

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The retail store business is quite a rewarding business if you take it seriously. Smart planning and proper execution can bring you enough money every month. Though from time to time you might feel as if you can do more and the profits coming in are not up to the mark. There are many ways which one can depend on to get the sales up again. We have compiled 4 trending ways that retail store owners are using to give a boost to their sales.

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How To Create A More Eco-Friendly Kitchen At The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Make your office kitchen eco-friendly. We look at 3 ways in which you can make your workplace kitchen greener. The post How To Create A More Eco-Friendly Kitchen At The Workplace appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Analyst Cam: Tercera

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time, it is Chris Barbin, presenting on his new fund and advisory firm, Tercera.

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7 Strategies For Making A Mentoring Relationship Work

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m a big fan of mentoring in business, and have been at different times on both the contributing and receiving end of the process. These days, I seem to often hear from entrepreneurs who are struggling to find a mentor, or complaining about their lack of effectiveness. Like any other relationship, it takes work on both sides to make mentoring work.

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8 Compelling Reasons Why Your Business Needs Video Surveillance

Women Entrepreneurs Can

A business is an extremely huge investment. It’s crucial, therefore, to adequately provide it with utmost protection to avoid risks and potential damages. Accordingly, one efficient way to safeguard your place of business is to set up and utilize a reliable video surveillance system. A video surveillance system allows you to have a day-to-day, real-time record of activities that happen within the premises of your business.

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5 Tips To Stop Fear From Blocking Your Path To Success

YoungUpstarts

Here are five points about understanding and overcoming fear in order to pursue opportunities such as starting a business, buying one, or making a bold career move. The post 5 Tips To Stop Fear From Blocking Your Path To Success appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Techstars Sustainability Accelerator / The Nature Conservancy – 2021 Applications Open

Feld Thoughts

In 2017 I helped get the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator off the ground in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Amy and I have been supporters of TNC for over 30 years and Amy serves on their global board of directors. The program has been running in Colorado supporting pre-seed to post-seed stage startups at the intersection of conservation and technology since 2018.

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7 Principles For Being A Wise Business Decision Maker

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to aspiring business owners. smart people stand out to me with intellectual power and depth of knowledge on many subjects. The tougher question is whether you are also wise, in the sense of cultivating the right relationships, understanding team dynamics, and keeping to the correct side of the ethical line to maintain the trust of team members and customers alike.

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Got Content To Be Content?

Rembrandt Communications

The path to happiness begins with your pen! If you are worried about your small business and feeling depressed and anxious, you are not alone. The past year has been difficult for everyone, but know that there are there are many positive things to look forward to in the future. After all, it is spring, and that means new beginnings! If you want a fresh start, it’s easy to begin with small steps.

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How To Leverage The Power Of An Older And Younger Workforce (And Why You Should)

YoungUpstarts

Now that people are staying in the workforce longer than previous generations, organizations can hire from many age groups. In a business environment dominated by Millennials and younger workers, workplace trends expert Rick Grimaldi makes the case for why older employees are not just important, but essential. The post How To Leverage The Power Of An Older And Younger Workforce (And Why You Should) appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Password Insanity

Feld Thoughts

My mom is extraordinarily patient. Several weeks ago, I bought her a brand new Mac as a mother’s day present. She was using a 2010 Mac, and it was time for her to use one that didn’t have an endless spinning pinwheel of Mac slowness on it. I had it sent to me, although there’s a whole story in just that. I set it up, downloaded and set up all the apps she used, installed all the new stuff she needed to manage her passwords from now on, connected iCloud, and tidied and buffed it

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Three Extremely Painful Truths About Business Success

YFS Magazine

Entrepreneurship is not an easy journey. You’ll have unbelievable highs and incredible lows, and those lows are unbelievably lonely.

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Marketplace innovation driven by crypto

Version One Ventures

Marketplace innovation comes in waves and we can point to a handful of major trends over the past two decades: Right now, the most exciting area in marketplace innovation is blockchain-enabled marketplaces, especially with what is happening in decentralized finance. The Ethereum ecosystem has enabled the emergence of a tremendous number of protocols, platforms and exchanges that power P2P interactions around trading ( Uniswap ), lending (Compound), option & derivatives ( Opyn ) and insurance

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5 Tips To Make Entrepreneurs Resilient When Challenges Threaten Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Building a business brings difficult challenges. James Webb shares five tips to help entrepreneurs be resilient and pivot in these challenging times. The post 5 Tips To Make Entrepreneurs Resilient When Challenges Threaten Their Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Another Virtual 5K in Boulder As Spring Emerges in Full Bloom

Feld Thoughts

I received a lot of positive feedback on my post highlighting the 2nd annual Emerge Virtual 5k Run so … It’s time for the 10th Annual Happy Smackah 5k Fun Run and Walk. This would have been the 11th Annual, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we canceled the May 2020 event. But, it’s back, this time as a Virtual 5k in 2021. You can run it anytime between May 8th and June 8th.

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5 Expert Methods to Improve Your Local SEO in 2021

Up and Running

As a business owner, improving your website’s presence on search engines should be one of your top priorities. This is still true if you have a physical location, as local SEO tactics can help people in your area find you. . Here, I’m going to provide you with five expert tips that will boost your local SEO and ensure your business starts to see more foot traffic.

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Tips to Understanding the Terms of Online Payday Loans

The Startup Magazine

Emergency financial expenses can be a serious drawback to most individuals and families. Very few people can manage to pay such expenses from their pockets without feeling the heat. The reason behind this is because not so many people have a saving culture, and even the few who do not earn enough to cater for their daily expenses and have enough to save.

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Don’t Fight Self-Interest, Embrace It

YoungUpstarts

If we can harness people's tendency for self interest and turn its massive power to productive means, we can change the world for good, says Jeffrey Martinovich. The post Don’t Fight Self-Interest, Embrace It appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Book: The New Builders

Feld Thoughts

My long-time business partner Seth Levine has written a book with Elizabeth MacBride titled The New Builders: Face to Face with the TRUE Future of Business. It’s extraordinary – buy a copy now! For many years, Seth has been frustrated about the entrepreneurial narrative around the White male tech founder. He’s been active as an investor and philanthropist around entrepreneurship in rural Colorado and with organizations, such as Entrepreneurship for All , that are focused on acc

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7 Ways to Create Urgency in Your Online Store

Up and Running

Urgent: demanding immediate attention or action. When shoppers are browsing your online store, they’re often acting with an unfortunate lack of urgency. With multiple tabs open, comparing reviews, prices, and delivery options, customers like to behave like they have all the time in the world. What this means for your online store is a race to the bottom for grabbing customer’s attention with low prices — it erodes your profit margin, as well as devaluing your products.

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How SMBs Can Strategically Thrive After The COVID-19 Crisis

YFS Magazine

More than two-thirds of businesses have the impression they’ve dodged the proverbial COVID bullet. Is this actually true?

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Defending The Legal Rights Of Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Take steps to make sure that you’re protecting yourself and your business’s legal rights to make sure it doesn’t get dragged under. The post Defending The Legal Rights Of Your Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain Some of the Traits They Admire in Innovators

Hearpreneur

Anyone can be an innovator, but it takes special traits to lead in innovation. It’s about how you implement the lessons you gain along the way and dare situations as they come. It’s about being future-oriented, paying special attention to details and putting yourself in a vulnerable situation when you think it’s worth the risk. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the traits they admire in innovators and here are the responses; #1- Unapologetic and driven mindset.

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Employee Surveys Won’t Tell You Whether To Return To An Office Or Not

Hunter Walker

Engage your team and understand their needs but craft your “Return To Office” strategy from the top down. We’ve backed a wide variety of startups at Homebrew but the CEOs are now all coalescing around one theme: it’s time to start making choices about what ‘back to the office’ looks like (note 95%+ of our investments are based in the US). Some are high conviction that all being back in an office five days a week is the right thing for their company (alongside modern policies around when flexible

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Changes in Supply Chain and Delivery Services

Our Own Start-up

Transportation, logistics, and supply chain industries can benefit hugely from implementing new technologies in areas such as artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation. The post Changes in Supply Chain and Delivery Services first appeared on Our Own Startup.