5 Quick Self-Care Tips For Entrepreneurs
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2019
If you're ready to improve yourself from the inside out, here are five simple self-care tips to ensure you prioritize your well-being.
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Capturing Luck with “or” instead of “and”
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 8, 2019
I won a fake stock market competition in elementary school. I put all my money in a few penny stocks — where prices are less than a dollar, and because of their small denomination, their value (as a percentage) fluctuates wildly. Some days I had the worst portfolio, other days I had the best. The competition happened to end on an up-day. This was an example of “high risk, high reward.
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Why Startups Should Focus On Software Testing
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 6, 2019
by Hardik Shah, Tech Consultant at Simform. According to Capgemini’s World Quality Report 2018-19 , Companies are now spending an average of 35% of their IT budget on QA and testing — a 9% year-on-year increase. The report was based on a global survey of IT executives and testing leaders from different countries. It’s actually good that the companies have started realising the importance of the testing phase in the software development life cycle.
FinTech and Forex – A Match Made in Heaven
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2019
The connection between Forex and technology is an obvious one. Because of the characteristics of currency trading, it’s normal to assume that technology can help investors perfect their strategies and make the most of the money they put in this trading method. Because forex trading is highly dependant on socio-economic, political, and natural events, like disasters, the market is extremely volatile.
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
5 Leadership Principles That Inspire Loyalty And Productivity
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Are you a leader worth following?
If These Quotes Could Be You, Don’t Try A New Startup
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2019
Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So what about you? How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? I’ve hit this before, but I still hear from too many unhappy entrepreneurs.
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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders
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When you’re working at growing your business , you need some role models to follow and great examples to emulate. It’s a hard grind when you’re just at the beginning of the process, so you need a little inspiration. There are few better choices than Neil Patel. Neil Patel is an outstanding, globally revered marketer who can teach you plenty about content marketing, PPC, SEO, and other digital marketing channels to help your business thrive.
Jan McBarron Shares Her Guide for Effectively Building Your Social Media Brand in the Digital Age
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Finding Stillness in the Modern World
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Modern Governance Approach to Ensuring Board Effectiveness
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Increased effectiveness among nonprofit boards is essential in today’s world. So essential, in fact, that there’s software designed to facilitate it as well as professionals trained to foster it and conferences produced to explore it. It’s no surprise that best practices emerge when 500 people convene around making nonprofit boards work better. The shift, however, is in the approach to board performance, which now begins not with a “how to” on enhancement, but rather an understanding of why boar
Why Marketing Your Own Tourism Business Sucks
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The best thing about marketing your business today is that when done right, you can achieve desired results for free. And who doesn’t want to become successful without spending some marketing dime? Self-marketing may sound ideal, but in the grand scheme of things, it sucks. If you still think handling your marketing needs on your own will save you time and money for your tourism business, you’re wrong.
How to Treat Your Tech Startup Like a Profitable Business from Day One
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Profitability is an extremely important goal for any startup — but profitability doesn’t just happen. There are many reasons to treat your startup like a profitable business from day one. Operating your business under the assumption that it’s already profitable will establish critical workflows and business practices that ensure your startup succeeds in the long term.
10 Signals That You Can Be A Trusted Business Leader
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Every entrepreneur and business leader believes that he or she has the full trust of their team and their customers, and in fact most do in the beginning. In my experience, most business professionals still believe in the old proverb, “ trust but verify.” In this context, that means you trust your leaders initially, but you look for signals that your trust in them is deserved and reciprocated.
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How Humans and Everyday Tech Can Outmatch AI
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by Nada R. Sanders, PhD, and John D. Wood, Esq., co-authors of “ The Humachine: Humankind, Machines, and the Future of Enterprise “ Artificial intelligence is at the top of mind of every corporate executive. It dominates shareholder calls and flames the fire of financial expectations. Its powers and potential give stock prices a bump and bolster investor confidence.
Mental Health Checklist: 7 Ways Business Owners Can Manage Stress
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How To Check Your Ethics Before A Business Decision
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Developing Your Nonprofit’s Strategic Plan
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The Biggest Mistake Your Startup is Making
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Entrepreneurs always make mistakes. When you’re building a business , you will get things wrong. Everyone does. It’s part of the learning process. If you’re not failing occasionally, you’re not trying hard enough. Let me explain the biggest mistake your startup is making. Some mistakes, though, are more significant than others—and there’s one mistake that’s the biggest of all.
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