Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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How To Create Happy Employees — And Why It’s Even More Vital Now

YoungUpstarts

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring “ Happy employees are the best kind. They work hard, keep customers loyal, and stick around to help your organization accomplish its mission. You definitely want them on your team. This is true in the best of times, yes, but also in the worst of times.

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We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

View from Seed

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York. We continue to believe that NYC is very underserved by seed investors who can lead with high conviction, and we are excited to double down our presence in New York by adding a new senior associate investment professional to our team. .

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10 Tips On Selling Yourself As Well As Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts. That means that selling yourself is more important than selling your idea.

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5 Content Marketing Tips For Getting More Customers

The Startup Magazine

Content provides useful information about your products and services. Aside from that, it also helps draw in potential customers. It is no wonder that experts consider content as “king.” And indeed, as more and more people rely on the internet when it comes to shopping for the solutions they need, businesses will have to focus on building an effective content marketing strategy.

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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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Is It Safe To Invest In Cryptocurrency? 

YoungUpstarts

People like easy money, right? . And when the usual person hears the word “cryptocurrency”, he thinks about this easy source of income. . But not everyone knows about pitfalls that are waiting for traders, and here’s a look at some of them. . Pitfall 1. The crypto market is full of scammers. They are waiting for you to steal money everywhere – crypto bots, wallets, exchanges, Telegram channels, etc. .

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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

View from Seed

Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Download Board Deck Template . Download Investor Update Email Template. Investor Update Email Template and How & When to Use It. We first released a version of the board meeting deck template template back in 2014 and then a revised version a couple of years later.

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Effectively Acquire Customers With These 6 Digital Marketing Hacks

The Startup Magazine

If two decades back someone would have predicted that 20 years down the line people would be able to carry all the brands in our world in their little hands, they would have been declared crazy and laughed off. Today, it has become the marketing world reality. Every product, service, business, and person is just a click away! Exciting times for business owners!

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Business Immigration With CanadaCIS: How To Start A Successful Business In Canada

YoungUpstarts

Investor protection, low corruption, trade freedom, and low corporate tax are some of the benefits businesses enjoy in Canada. In addition to Canada’s stable economy, other perks include its proximity to the United States and its similar business ethics and culture with the U.S, which makes running your business in Canada smooth with less cultural challenges to deal with.

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Microsoft Ads 101: Get Up and Running in Minutes

ConversionXL

Google is the biggest search engine ad platform in the world. But Microsoft Advertising has potential advantages, including lower CPCs and less competition on Bing. It’s worth a look, and this article shows you how to get started. I’ll walk through the step-by-step process to set up Microsoft Ads as well as best practices for running campaigns. . How to set up your Microsoft Ads account.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong. The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. Unfortunately, the rest of the world soon forgot about it. In the years that followed, Alpha dedicated his life to science, pursing degrees in chemistry and mathematics, and starting a research lab the University of Cambridge.

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7 Tips for Improving Communication with Customers for Startups

The Startup Magazine

Part of growing a small business is making it easy for customers’ voices to be heard. Here are tips for improving communication with customers for startups. In 2019, there were 30.7 million small businesses in the U.S, proving we’re a nation of entrepreneurs. Business owners know how crucial communication with customers is as they’re the lifeblood of the company.

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4 Companies Shaking Up Traditional Menswear

YoungUpstarts

Traditional menswear has been in a bit of slump in the previous decades with brands sticking to the status quo. A lot of brands even got to the point where they were repeating what had been done in the past, but that has started to change in recent times. There are four companies that have taken the market by storm and become popular among the masses.

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How to make the most useful dashboard

Berkonomics

The need for real time information. From sports car to aircraft to super tanker, successful operation depends upon the pilot’s understanding and urgent timely use of a dashboard. Real time information is critical to real time decision-making, and increasingly in the modern business world, decisions are made by management without extended meetings or discussion with others.

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How to Use Feedback to Succeed

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Use Feedback to Succeed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steven Herz. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Steven Herz, President of The Montag Group, a sports and entertainment talent and marketing consultancy. He is also a career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals.

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Objectives of Financial Management in Healthcare

Board Effect

Among their other responsibilities, healthcare boards are responsible for ensuring that management teams and finance teams run efficiently while pursuing goals that lead to profitability. In order for healthcare organizations to succeed and provide quality healthcare for all their patients, they must have financial management plans and systems that are strong and efficient.

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How To Start Your Own Aluminium Joinery Business

YoungUpstarts

When starting a business, you will have many endeavours whether you have a small or large capital. Aluminium joinery business has been one of the most stable business for the past decade. With an almost ready-made business model, the cost and requirements are relatively low compared to other startup business which is favorable for aspiring business owner.

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New Normal: A conversation with Rob Enslin of Google Cloud

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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6 Tips For Entrepreneurs To Lock In On The Right Road

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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Educators Summit: Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic

Steve Blank

SAVE THE DATE for the Lean Innovation Educators Summit : Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic. July 24, 10-noon Pacific, 1-3pm Eastern, 6-8pm London. As educators the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us all. W e’ve faced the challenges of teaching remotely, while virtually managing students scattered across the world, keeping students enthusiastic and engaged via video, helping them conduct customer discovery when they can’t get out of the building, and rolling with uncertain teac

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How To Start Your Trucking Business

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve been working as a truck driver for some time, you may be considering setting up your own trucking business. It’s a logical progression. The good news is that you can set up your own trucking business by investing in one truck, for starters. Here are the steps you can follow if you want to set up a trucking business of your own. 1. Buy Your First Truck.

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Oracle Nation update

deal architect

Last August, I had floated the idea of writing Oracle Nation. This blog post laid out the reasons why I was thinking about it. I added in a comment the changing industry landscape I hoped to explore "The next wave.

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8 Steps To Success With A Startup Board And Advisors

Startup Professionals Musings

Many startup founders I know avoid establishing a formal advisory board or board of directors for as long as possible, with the excuse that this is just another burden, or it has more risk than value to the founder. In my experience, just the opposite is true, since outside experts with the right experience can greatly reduce risk and improve the quality of your decisions in time of crisis.

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Businesses Have the Tools to Become More Inclusive

Women Entrepreneurs Can

With the recent BLM movement, businesses have had to review their practices. Many have chosen to discuss their inclusive strategy and how they can support their customers and employees from the black community. There is no denying that we still have a lot of work to make our companies inclusive and welcoming to all, regardless of gender, race, origin, social background, ability or disability, etc.

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How To Run A Profitable Home-Based Law Office

YoungUpstarts

During this time, where people must stay inside during the pandemic, you may consider running a law practice from home. If you’re planning to do so, there are some things that you need to do to ensure your products and continue to earn money. Are you concerned about running your law firm from home? There’s no need to worry! We’re going to provide you with an in-depth guide about running your business.

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New Normal: A conversation with Ton Dobbe of Value Inspiration

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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5 Rewards Of Independence That Excite Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

For all entrepreneurs, starting a business is the route to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” no matter how risky. It’s the American dream that has been the goal of people in this country for over 240 years. If you are here in the U.S., I hope you are all able to take some time off this holiday period, to contemplate what you do, and why you do it.

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5 reasons why Germany is the best country for startups

The Next Web

Germany has been a startup ecosystem on the rise for quite some time now. It’s produced a number of global success stories including SoundCloud, Zalando, Flixbus, and HelloFresh. In 2019, the country was ranked number one in Europe for startups by NimbleFins. EY reported that Germany’s top 100 startups received a total of $11.1 billion in funding in 2019, a significant increase from the $6.3 billion reached in 2018.

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The Life Cycle Of An Idea – From Concept To Implementation

YoungUpstarts

So, you want positive changes in your business? Or want to make your business better by taking some innovative steps? Well, if the answer to any of the above is a yes, then read on. Changes emerge from ideas. We get hundreds, if not thousands, of ideas every day. Do all these ideas bring beneficial changes? Not really! Every successful idea has to go through a lot before being implemented.

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WFH productivity and problems

deal architect

I was one of Gartner's first WFH analysts in 1995. They were not sure the WFH model would work in analyst world so they had me spend most of the first 6 months at HQ in Stamford, CT. My employment.

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Time to Build Robots for Humans, Not to Replace

ReadWriteStart

Thinking about the future of robots and autonomy is exciting; driverless cars, lights-out factories, urban air mobility, robotic surgeons available anywhere in the world. We’ve seen the building blocks come together in warehouses, retail stores, farms, and on the roads. It is now time to build robots for humans, not to replace them. We still h ave a long way to go.

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Israeli startup landscape maps (updated July 2020)

VC Cafe

I love startup landscapes. It’s been a while since I posted the first Israeli startup landscape collection (August 2018) and second batch (Nov 2019) of Israeli startup maps. In this post I’ll aggregate a collection of recent Israeli startup landscapes across Artificial Intelligence, retail tech, sports tech, Fintech, health (specifically relating to Covid-19), wellness tech and others.

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Leading People In A Crisis – Yes, It Will Be Different

YoungUpstarts

by Wayne Embree, EVP of Venture Acceleration & Investments for Rev1 Ventures. While there are plenty of challenges and opportunities that present themselves within the idea of launching a business during a recession, the only thing for certain right now is uncertainty itself. We can’t predict what a post-COVID-19 world will look like, but there are a few things that entrepreneurs should expect for their businesses now and once we’re all on the other side of this; things will be different acr

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New Normal: A conversation with Brian Sommer of TechVentive

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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Trying a “No Scheduled Meeting” Week

Feld Thoughts

I was going to take a week off the grid next week, but I’ve got a bunch of podcasts and media recordings to do for my upcoming book The Startup Community Way. I also want to continue spending time in the new Startup Community community , which now has over 2,000 people in it and is growing and self-organizing at a rapid clip. And I have a few Foundry things to do.

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The Future of Education

Version One Ventures

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of education lately. It’s clear that our current model is beyond broken. The very young are taught to grin and bear twelve years of compulsory passive absorption. Upon graduation, they’re then incentivized to take on >$30k in debt to study random subjects which may or may not interest them and which almost always (with the exception of credentials from the most elite universities and STEM degrees) have very limited job prospects.

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Using Your Car To Become A Food Delivery Driver: A Good Or Bad Idea?

YoungUpstarts

Let’s face it: in the current climate, taking up food delivery, whether as a side job or a new primary occupation, can be tempting. The pandemic has intensified demand for online deliveries – and food is obviously one thing that people can’t choose to live without. You could even use your personal car for the job. However, “could” is not the same as “should”.

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