5 Life and Business Resolutions Worth Keeping In 2020
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 1, 2020
If you're considering priorities for the year and need a fresh dose of inspiration, keep these resolutions in mind.
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Why Relationship Building Is The #1 Skill for 2020 — And The Next Decade
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2020
by Andrew Sobel, coauthor of “ Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships “ Strong relationships are vital to a healthy career. When we can’t make real connections with others in the workplace, they won’t feel loyal to us. We become tradable commodities. When times get tough, we may be the first ones pushed out the door.
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5 Questions To Qualify Advisors For Your New Venture
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Every startup needs a couple of advisors with deep experience and connections in your business domain or financial skills to complement your technical focus. Advisors need to be mentors, looking ahead and directing you on key actions to take or avoid. Unfortunately, many prefer the role of critic, looking backward to highlight your mistakes. These people don’t help you or your startup.
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When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. Motivating yourself can be hard but practicing consistent habits such as reminding yourself of why you started can be a major boost. A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- Periodic looks in the rearview mirror.
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
How Insurtech Startups Reinvented Insurance Companies
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It’s better to have it and not need it, rather than need it and get caught without it. Insurance is one of the oldest financial businesses, but it’s not what it used to be. Like other sectors such as banking and law firms, insurers are receiving a makeover. The traditional methods now include accuracy, personalization, and efficiency like never before.
4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer
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by Guy Cooper, Managing Director of Wave Digital. The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. So if you want an app that not only works at the end but will be a hit with your users, what should you do? The key to choosing an app developer is research. Here are four critical questions to ask both yourself and an app developer before making the decision to engage them to design and deliver your app. 1.
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I have always loved prediction posts, but shied away from them myself, probably out of fear and imposter syndrome. Seeing the the posts of years past from others finally got me over the line and I wanted to share my thoughts here. Since it’s a new decade, it also allows me to go deeper into the future and make even farther out predictions for the future.
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Where to Play – Where to Impact
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How Starting a Podcast Can Benefit Small Businesses
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Over the past 10 years, podcasts have skyrocketed into public awareness. And that rocket has picked up speed with each new celebrity-/entrepreneur-hosted show. The likes of Tim Feriss, Joe Rogan, and Ben Shapiro have each grown their following because of successful podcasts. . Even people who don’t usually interact with digital media have heard of shows like This American Life, Serial, and Planet Money.
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