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Strategies For Coping With Entrepreneurial Stress And Burnout

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Jeff Nalin, Psy.D, Founder and Chief Clinical Director at Paradigm Malibu Treatment Center. The statistics for entrepreneur success are somewhat alarming. Some studies report that only half of self-start businesses will survive into their fifth year. To be one of the success stories, not only do you need a solid business model, you also must learn to manage the stress which comes along with running an empire.

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10 Keys To Surviving From A Startup To An Enterprise

Startup Professionals Musings

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin.

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

ConversionXL

Often, marketing creativity encounters technical limitations. A web page can load only so fast. UX is constrained by browsers. Cutting-edge solutions are accessible only to those with large budgets. Native applications resolve some of these issues but bring their own baggage—development costs, platform irregularities, download requirements, update needs, and issues with search indexability.

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7 Key Insights You Can Get From Analyzing Your Financial Statements

Up and Running

According to a study recently published by the consulting firm Bain & Company , only about 10 percent of all businesses are capable of achieving sustained, profitable, and continuous growth. To ensure that your business is capable of pushing itself into this talented group, you will need to pay careful attention to your financial statements and make a few adjustments. .

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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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A Startup Founder’s Guide To Reducing Risk

YoungUpstarts

The concept of risk is interesting, to say the least. The idea of risk keeps us honest and ensures we don’t make foolish decisions. In this regard, it’s a good thing. But the consequences of risk realized are painful and costly. In this sense, risk can be deadly. . As a startup founder with a fledgling business, the goal is to reduce/eliminate as many risk variables as possible in order to give your young startup an unimpeded runway to fly to new heights.

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8 Keys To Business Success For Entrepreneur Introverts

Startup Professionals Musings

It really is possible for an introvert to succeed as an entrepreneur, even though you can’t expect to start and build a business alone. You need to build business relationships with partners, team members, investors, and of course customers. In fact, all you need to do is follow the model of some famous self-proclaimed introverts , including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch. And my guest today is Jono Bacon. He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker.

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5 Practices To Keep Your Legacy Business Relevant For Modern Consumers

YoungUpstarts

by Kelly Bosetti , CEO and founder of CEA Marketing . Small businesses offer the sort of personalized care and customer service that corporate giants can never match. While they have stayed alive for centuries by catering to the needs of their clientele, those businesses are struggling to remain relevant to modern buyers. When you’re running a legacy business — or any company, for that matter — it’s incredibly important to keep pace with consumer trends.

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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company.

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How Not to Kill Your Spouse at Work: Five Strategies for Making It Work as a Married-Business Couple

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Anyone that has entered into a business arrangement with their partner knows, you will more than likely butt heads. There are pros and cons to owning a business with your spouse, but for those of you who are already committed to taking the plunge, here are 5 strategies for making it work as a married-business couple: 1. Align your business and financial goals.

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Transcript of How to Choose Your Life’s Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Choose Your Life’s Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Brant Menswar. He is a keynote speaker, award-winning musician, and author of the book, Rock ‘N’ Roll With It: Overcoming the Challenge of Change.

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10 Tips To Promote Your eCommerce Website On Social Media That Increase Traffic And Revenue To Your Store

YoungUpstarts

There are dozens of channels on which you can promote your eCommerce website, but few compare to the performance of social media. Statistics show three in four consumers use social media during their purchasing journey. Some consumers search for product reviews on social media before making a purchase, whereas others search for how-to videos on You Tube or other product information.

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Real Entrepreneurs Must Make Good Decisions Quickly

Startup Professionals Musings

Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The team is the same. The company's market is the same. The only change might be a visible new competitor, or another economy downturn, resulting in investors holding their money, and that makes all the difference.

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Pitch Deck Month: The Team Slide

View from Seed

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. Of all of the slides in a pitch deck for VCs, the team slide should be the most straightforward. However, we’ve found that it’s frequently the most over-engineered, and often filled with extraneous information.

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6 Steps to Grow Your Small Business with Cold Email

ReadWriteStart

Can business run only on cold emails? Who reads emails these days? I know these questions must be popping up in your head. But let me tell you, cold emails can still help you in generating new leads for your business if done in the right way. Use the six steps to grow your small business with cold emails. Many businesses still are using cold emails to drive sales.

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How To Choose The Best Business Management Tools For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are an established venture or a budding entrepreneur, you need tools that are highly efficient and productive to use. Everyone lookouts for tools that are time efficient and also helps in organizing the chaos. A business will act precisely if its ideas are excellently planned and implemented in the right way. There are many business tools, even more than you could ever imagine – project management yools, ERPs, SaaS, and what not.

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10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Secondly, the risk is very high, since as many as 90 percent of startups fail within a few years.

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Introducing: Pitch Deck Month

View from Seed

Almost 5 years ago we released a resource for founders looking for guidance on their seed stage pitch decks. Today, it’s been viewed over 300,000 times on Slideshare , and is still one of the resources we hear positive feedback about from the greater founder community. Our goal as a firm is to always strive to provide updated and top notch resources for founders.

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Female Founder Interview: Maria Teresa Ramos – Ramos Tax and Services

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series , we caught up with Maria Teresa Ramos, president of Ramos Tax and Services, a small business accounting services firm. Maria’s background, coming from an immigrant family and building a company from the ground up, provides the foundation for her entrepreneurial insights. But her dedication to her customers and the value of the help and services she provides to an underserved community make her story truly inspiring.

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How To Market Your SEO Services

YoungUpstarts

Everyone knows that an internet presence is critical for a business to grow today. So, you would think that selling your SEO services would be a piece of cake. However, you couldn’t be more wrong. Marketing your SEO services business can be difficult. Many businesses, especially those that have limited budgets (like small businesses), need to be convinced that SEO services would lead to more traffic on their website.

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Thoughts on WeWork

This is going to be BIG.

I got asked by a reporter yesterday what I thought about WeWork’s IPO situation and I’ll summarize what I said here: First off, let’s pull back for a moment and acknowledge that WeWork has built a huge company that generates a ton of value for its members. Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream.

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Leadership Guide for Every Business Growth Stage

ReadWriteStart

It can be challenging to realize that you are in the midst of a moment of personal growth when it comes to business. As the day-to-day of your professional life moves more quickly, you are likely to evolve in your career. Sometimes you change in your leadership role without even realizing a transformation has occurred. But, you’ll want a leadership guide for every business growth stage.

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How to Write a Top-Notch Business Plan for Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Many people dream of setting up their own business. However, these people often fail at the execution because they don’t properly plan for their startups. Some of the most common reasons for startup failure include lack of market need, a wrong product, and ineffective marketing. By using a free business plan template and developing it in detail before you take any significant steps, you can focus on the right areas and identify any flaws before you make an investment.

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The One Thing That is Dragging Your Business Behind

YoungUpstarts

Truth hurts but lets face it: No amount of self worked SEO efforts are going to rank your site the highest not even will your attempts take you an iota way up the Google ranking ladder. . You know why? If it were that easy, SEO experts wouldn’t spend years of learning and practice just to gain a few tips that they would have learnt by reading a few blogs on the internet. .

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The 4 Types of Value Propositions Every Business Needs

ConversionXL

Humans are value-rating machines. Every day, all day long, we size up different decisions by appraising the value proposition of that action. Should I buy this product? Sure, that’s the obvious one. But also: Should I go to lunch with this person? Should I open this email? Should I even spend the time to ponder this decision? When most marketers think about a value proposition, they’re thinking of the 10,000-foot-view—an overall company value proposition.

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Learning From Silicon Valley About Blockchain Adoption

ReadWriteStart

One of Silicon Valley’s most compelling attributes is its lack of interest in the traditional bottom line. While most companies focus on revenue and profitability, Silicon Valley leaders tend to view valuation as a success barometer. Because of this mindset, Valley-based companies don’t mind taking significant risks as long as they help achieve big-picture visions.

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How can a great logo mark your presence in the world? 

The Startup Magazine

Ok! So how many of us actually read the brand names beside the logos of the boards? Don’t we often just recognise a shoe is of Nike because of the tick that represents it? Or if we see a lady (mermaid) in green enveloped in a circle printed on a coffee cup, we know it’s Starbucks! And the picture of two bright yellow arches that look like the letter ‘M’ always brings the term McDonald’s to our mind.

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9 PR And Marketing Mistakes To Avoid At All Costs

YoungUpstarts

by Diana Ennen, President of Virtual Word Publishing and author of “ Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA “ PR and marketing can be overwhelming and many don’t do it as often as they should because they are afraid of doing it wrong. Yes, you can make mistakes, however, once you know how to look for them it’s easier than ever to get great results for your business.

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Hypergiant Industries Creates Augmented Reality Helmet for Military, Police, and Firefighters

SiliconHills

Hypergiant Industries has created a smart helmet prototype designed to keep the military, police, firefighters and other first responders safe. The space-age helmet, called Project Orion, comes equipped with night vision, infrared, thermal imaging and more. Its display screen also provides users with all kinds of information that might be useful in an emergency.

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8 Visual Search Optimization Tips for Your Business Website

Up and Running

When Amazon rolled out StyleSnap at its 2019 re:MARS conference, the internet giant officially joined the growing ranks of retailers transforming the way consumers find what they want on the web. . Visual search tools like StyleSnap or Pinterest’s Lens harness the power of advanced neural networks and machine learning, enabling search engines to recognize colors and patterns in user-uploaded images and return relevant search results.

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The Most Expensive Logo Designs to Inspire You

The Startup Magazine

In the same way that human faces are unique and allow people to immediately identify and distinguish one person from another, logos are the face of a brand that let customers tell it apart from its competition. If you’re looking to create a visual representation that will show the world who your company is and what it does, you can take inspiration from some logo designs that look great and have a proven track record.

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Eight Reasons Why Your Company Should Embrace Video Marketing

YoungUpstarts

by Sean Gordon, founder of vidREACH.io. In 2019, it’s absolutely impossible to log onto Instagram or Facebook and not be inundated with video content from all of your favorite brands. When you’re a marketer, you notice and pick up on the small details, but some may not realize that even small businesses can embrace the ethos of video and make it their own.

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I Love My Coffee (Gear & Beans Edition)

Hunter Walker

Coffee brings me joy. I’m not overly precious about it – if Starbucks is the best available choice so be it – but living in a great coffee city like San Francisco, I don’t see much need to consume just an average cup, whether at home, Homebrew HQ , or working from a cafe. Accordingly here’s my 2019 State of Caffeine. Beans.

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Top September Tech Events to Attend in Austin

SiliconHills

This month marks the start of Fall and that so far is just a date on the calendar as 90 plus degree days continue to be the norm. That’s about 10 degrees higher than normal, according to local metrologists. But alas as Fall approaches, Austin’s startup activities also heat up. This month features Silicon Hills […]. The post Top September Tech Events to Attend in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Wellness & Meditation Retreats in Ireland – Retreats for Relaxation

The Startup Magazine

Whether you are running a fresh and innovative startup, or you are the Human Resources Manager for a large corporation, or anything in between, as the employer you have a responsibility towards the well being of the people who work for you. After all, if your employees are unhealthy physically or emotionally, it will be your company’s loss. Employee retreats are one solution to keeping a healthy staff.

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The Compass – How To Beat The Rising Employee Quit Rate

YoungUpstarts

by Aviad Goz, author of “ The Compass: How to Navigate Your Life and Career in Times of Change “ A recent Gallup study shows that the employee quit-rate (the percentage of employees quitting their jobs) in the US is at an all-time rise. The study results reflect characteristics of Millennials and Z generation so there is no reason to think the situation is different in other countries.

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