Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Every entrepreneur and business executive knows that continuous innovation is required to survive, but most struggle with this more than any other challenge they face. They know they need to act proactively, but still are often blindsided by a new competitor coming out of the blue with a future they never imagined. Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Startup businesses often struggle with limited resources. Such companies often have less workload compared to established businesses with a large customer base. Outsourcing allows small companies to get professional services at affordable rates compared to developing in-house talent. It also helps the entrepreneur to concentrate on activities that can help the firm grow.
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The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Advanced technologies continually alter our world’s landscape, and each step is an incremental evolution that propels you forward. Modern businesses rely heavily on this positive cyclical and iterative disruption to be competitive in the marketplace and innovate, delivering new services and products to their customers faster than ever. Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Bringing in customers is important. Holding onto those same customers is even more crucial. Which is where customer engagement comes into play. Engagement is the act of building authentic relationships with your target audience. It involves any and all communications that you leverage throughout the pre and post-purchase process. Which can be disastrous if you’re delivering different messages or even a misaligned tone through every channel.
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
Board Effect
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most taxing years of our lifetimes. In addition to the individual struggles, businesses and nonprofit organizations are facing some of the greatest challenges they’ve ever had in their histories. From its earliest days, BoardEffect has always been in tune with the needs of nonprofits. This year, at the time when nonprofits are in great need, BoardEffect is ready to give back.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Business runs on a few core functions that remain unchanged through centuries of industry. Great product exposure and a sales team dedicated to improving the lives of your customer base act as the face of your company. In order to truly find success this must be matched by a development team that consistently strives to deliver truly life-bettering products and services that customers keep coming back for.
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Up and Running
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
In a competitive market, consumers are always looking for something that sets a product or service apart. We call this distinguishing factor the Unique Selling Proposition (USP). Customers will assess the value of your product or service against a range of factors. As a consumer, you experience these choices every day. You choose what to buy, based on factors like price , quality, reliability, etc.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
A business degree has been a popular choice for years. It is a viable choice concerning career and job opportunities. When students finish high school and choose a major, they have plenty of choices, and excess options often confuse them. Since most of them are aware that their career depends on this big decision, they find themselves in a dilemma. One’s passion and job prospects are significant reasons, which helps them zero down on one subject.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The world needs more nonprofits, especially now. With so much of government in gridlock, it seems like the only way to provide youth with better educational services, enrich others’ lives with arts, or help the poor, homeless, or military veterans is by supporting nonprofits with local missions to serve those communities. If you’ve got a strong vision for how you could create a nonprofit organization to make the world a better place, there’s never been a better time to get star
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
At Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, we put on a lot of events , with many different speakers. Sometimes, the speaker is doing something like this in public for the first time, so I thought I’d take the time to share some of what we’ve learned from the best talks, and what I’ve picked up from doing a lot of public speaking myself. (BTW… I’m always happy to come give a talk, join a diverse panel, or do a Q&A with your entrepreneurial or investor group.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
Finding your sweet spot as an entrepreneur needs to start with a meaningful personal purpose that is also a business opportunity. Some people are so passionate about a cause that they forget to consider the lack of business potential, while others are so enamored with profit that they jeopardize their ethics. Both ends of this spectrum fail to bring long-term satisfaction or success.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
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 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes up. Here is.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
We’re all sick of the word “blockchain”. There’s been a whole lot of cash (and hot air) expended on something that hasn’t really moved the needle in financial services. As the parlance goes, it’s the quiet ones you need to watch; Supply@ME Capital PLC (LSE: SYME) has done the unthinkable and produced a blockchain-powered offering that could truly upend capital financing.
NZ Entrepreneur
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
All businesses now have one very good thing – six months of post-Covid sales data. Used right this can give you greater certainty to inform and plan your sales strategy for 2021. It’s now six months since Covid-19 burst in on the business scene. If you’re busier than ever – that’s great. But for most businesses, Covid has stalled sales, frozen sales pipelines and generally exposed any weak points in your sales systems and sales processes.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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. David Somers, GM, Talent Optimization at Workday (and co-founder of Rallyteam that Workday acquired).
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Do you visualize your business brand flourishing beyond the local clientele base? It’s time for you to embrace the importance of becoming omnipresent in the virtual space. Setting up a successful eCommerce website takes more than driven passion and dedication. It’d help if you also embraced digital marketing strategies to stand out. It’d be best to bring in an eCommerce online marketing agency to ensure that everything is running.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
If you are an employee, it’s highly likely that your employer deals with your taxes on your behalf, deducting a set figure towards taxes from your paycheck each month. But if you are a small business owner, a freelancer , or anyone else who works for themselves, you’ll find that the responsibility of figuring out, filing and paying your own taxes falls on your own shoulders.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. In fact, the latest figures show that crowdfunding globally is expected to reach $114 billion by 2021, exceeding the amounts contributed by either angel groups or VCs alone.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
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. The weekly Burning Platform with Brian Sommer is taking a break, so it was.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
In the old days, marketing agencies were non-existent, and most companies were struggling to market their business and making sales. Even with the advancement in technology and the introduction of digitalized marketing agencies, most businesses are still struggling to embrace the new idea of the digitalized way of marketing. Most businesses that have embraced the way of marketing their business through online advertising are seen to improve quite rapidly.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Not everyone’s career moves up and to the right from beginning to end. In fact, I don’t think that actually happens to anyone—but some people are just better at hiding the wrong turns, u-turns, and downturns than others. The key isn’t skipping over them—because a recruiter or potential employer can sniff out a story that doesn’t make sense from a mile away.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
In these difficult days of the pandemic, the visibility of leadership in business, as well as politics, seems to be at an all-time low. In my view as a business advisor, it’s an ideal time for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners to get ahead of the crowd by driving an innovative solution to a painful problem with the passion, perseverance, and work ethic I see every day.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
For more than a decade now, content marketing has been the prized strategy of startups all over the world. With the help of onsite blog posts, offsite guest authored posts, social media updates, and other forms of content, brands can generate much more visibility and a better reputation—all for a relatively low cost of entry. But these days, tech startups trying to take advantage of the content marketing hype are finding it difficult to get involved.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
by Dr. Bradley Nelson, author of “ The Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness “ People who are emotionally intelligent have the ability to identify and manage their own feelings. But just as importantly, they are also good at recognizing when someone else is feeling a certain way, and empathize with them.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
There was a time when lengthy accounting registers were the need of the day, a time when yellow paged books were the best source of contact information. Interestingly, this period is not that long ago. Interestingly, the concept of manual finance management is still a modern-day phenomenon. Many companies continue to employ specific people to manage the business finance function.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Lanham Napier led Rackspace as CEO for 13 years. Under his leadership, the company grew from $1.5 million in revenue to more than $1.5 billion in revenue and more than 6,000 employees. When he left Rackspace, he launched his next venture, BuildGroup, a venture capital firm in Austin, which is also his hometown. Napier, […]. The post The Austin-San Antonio Corridor Could Become one of the World’s Top 10 Tech Regions, says Lanham Napier, CEO of BuildGroup appeared first on SiliconHil
David Cohen
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
I’ve had several conversations recently where the idea came up that advice is situational. And, for any often used piece of advice, it’s sometimes easy to give exactly the opposite advice. The hard part is deciding what advice (if any) to take in your situation. As I was saying this, I kept remembering a table I had read somewhere of “exact opposite” advice.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Since the coronavirus breached these shores, we’ve seen a huge surge in the number of employees working remotely and from home. In fact, it’s estimated that 46.6% of the UK workforce operated remotely in April 2020 alone, with 86% of this number doing so solely as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. While several larger companies have pledged to maintain remote working as a permanent arrangement, however, many are planning to bring their employees back sometime after spring.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The US Small Business Administration notes that fast-food franchises make up the most popular business type for new entrepreneurs. Franchises are an easy way to trade on the popularity of an established name. From medspa franchise opportunities to retail businesses, there’s no shortage of supply. However, getting into a franchise relies on understanding what the company expects back from you.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Many people think price is the most important purchasing decision factor. But this isn’t always true, especially for high-ticket offers.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
A look at the branding elements you need to get your side hustle off the ground to create a strong brand.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Getting to the stage in the business where you can hire your first members of staff is an excellent achievement and one you will want to make sure you get right. It shows that you are on the path to success, and hiring the correct employee will boost the value of the business. It can be difficult to choose the right people, however, especially when it’s your first time.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
When we think about employee handbooks, we immediately think only big established businesses with a good number of employees would need it but what is the minimum number of employees that a startup or a small business should have before they have an employee handbook? There is no one-startup-fits-all answer to this. An employee handbook contains the policies and guidelines on how employees should be handled and further questions that employees might have. new job, hiring and employment concept &
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
The above tweet seemed to resonate with folks, and sometimes when that happens, I like to expand in a post, since the tweet will disappear in 30 days. Ok, let’s talk about working in tech and feeling like your best years are perpetually behind you. It screws with your head! This was part of the reason I spent almost two decades metaphorically being chased by failure tiger.
Babbling VC
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
No one really talks about this when discussing physical industry events. People don't go for the content. Here and there you may learn something in a session or you may get the chance to listen to someone live whom you admire or wanted to get access to. But this isn't the major draw of physical industry events. . You go to be amongst people. You go to interact.
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