Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2022

I’m Ramon Ray founder and editor of Smart Hustle, this year has been tough for me, in some regards. Business Strategies That Can Make Difference in 2022. Here are some business strategies for the new year you can implement to boost growth: 1- Having a Clever Pricing Strategy. Best books for small business owners.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

How might you create a prolific content strategy which resonates with your audience at a higher level? Start by offering something of value for free to your potential audience in exchange for an email address, such as a discount coupon for your products, a free e-book, workbook, or even a free trial period for your service.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Jay Steinfeld, the founder and CEO of blinds.com, spoke with Ramon Ray, founder of SmartHustle.com on the power of diversity and how he led Blinds.com to be so successful. Mr. Steinfeld is passionate about creating a workplace that humanizes employees and fosters creativity. Check out the podcast and Check out the video.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 5, 2019

In my opinion, companies are either far too focused on the end sale or the conversion campaign, or they’re on the other end of the spectrum and are only worried about the brand and feel-good creative. So should your digital strategy be focused on driving leads or building your brand? Sales and brand. Do (engage and purchase).

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify In this episode, I talk with Jason Fried, the Founder & CEO of 37signals (known for Basecamp & Hey!). Jason wrote the definitive book on remote work over a decade ago, and his ideas have had a big impact on how we work today. Check Out: Become part of the pre-launch team for my new book!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Christian Gaiser, CEO, and co-founder of NUMA Group said: “Our clear goal is to establish NUMA as the dominant technology and creative solution provider for a completely new generation of hotels in Europe. We achieved 500% revenue growth and 85% booking occupancy despite Corona using our NUMA concept and proprietary technology.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Haje’s favorite was “A Deadly Education” (Naomi Novik’s first book in the Scholomance trilogy), which incidentally was recommended by both Alex and Amanda, which was how he found out about the books in the first place. In non-book news, there’s a bushel of stories from TechCrunch for ya! Startups and VC. to 17 cents.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here’s what Tracy Call of EO Minnesota, founder of Media Bridge Advertising , which ranked No. I also have a physical “to do” book and a system for jotting things down and crossing them off that I follow religiously. Tracy Call is the founder of Media Bridge Advertising. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc. I go through my emails and texts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 5, 2021

All are examples of creative thinking to solve problems. Entrepreneurship is a creative activity. Those of us working from home faced the challenge of how to be creative, productive and keep our businesses alive. Being in quarantine can offer opportunities for creative entrepreneurs, despite the challenges it forces upon you.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches. I haven’t read the book nor deeply reviewed Project Aristotle but the conversation on this morning’s show really resonated with me. I watch whether the CEO talks over other people or lets them participate.

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify In this episode, I talk with Jason Fried, the Founder & CEO of 37signals (known for Basecamp & Hey!). Jason wrote the definitive book on remote work over a decade ago, and his ideas have had a big impact on how we work today. Check Out: Become part of the pre-launch team for my new book!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

To say that I’m more than averagely interested in photography is a bit of an understatement — I used to be a professional photographer, and have written 20-ish books about photography. Facet is about to have a big impact on the creative community and the wider web. “One example is someone like Spotify.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2021

Core Kupfer, founder of DealQeust – home to Weekly Conversation, Connection & Cocktails. Ivy Slater, CEO of Slater Success , offering strategy, leadership, and speaking services. Che Brown , founder of The Happy Entrepreneur Network. Diane Darling, founder Dianedarling.com. It gets my creative juices going.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

teams usually outperform individuals or groups of individuals) but very few Founder CEOs are skilled at creating a high-performing senior leadership team. Remote work, hybrid and distributed teams have made working together more difficult in the eyes of most Founder CEOs. Most CEOs understand why teams are important (e.g.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 5, 2018

Though capitalism’s “creative destruction” is highly beneficial for society, it precludes investment certainty…A truly great business must have an enduring “moat” that protects excellent returns on invested capital. The VCs and founders play an offense-only game. All investment is speculation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

It felt like what was available was more for more knowledgeable people,” co-founder and CEO Anni Noel-Johnson told me. Anni Noel-Johnson, the CEO of the company, was the VP of Trading and Strategy at Farfetch. She previously wrote a best-selling gardening book called ‘How to Grow’. And I didn’t know a lot about gardening.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

After arriving at a place where you want to create a business , here are the seven steps I always take to put the proper infrastructure and strategies in place to have success as an entrepreneur. But if it’s taken, this is your reason to get creative. Step 4: Set up your books. The second thing is that you must have a strategy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Startups and VC Everyone needs some good competition to get the creativity flowing. In a post for TC+, he explores three recommerce areas attracting VC funds and shares “some food for thought for founders building startups in this (re)emerging space.” You can sign up here. I guess we’ll see.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? “It

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2020

“I have worked inside the corporate environment and there are some aspects of the hierarchical chain that can blunt people of their creativity. And yet, every entrepreneur who I know went out on a limb, particularly founders. These are the four books he says have contributed to his growth as a business owner.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In co-authoring Beyond Product , I set out to help founders with exactly this challenge. In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 9, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Make a list of the elements you miss that brought you happiness before this crisis—and figure out creative ways to build on those. Author Greg McKeown wrote an excellent book before the virus. Essentialism.

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Gust

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I found a book on this subject, “ The 4 Disciplines of Execution ,” by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling, which seems to talk well to startups as well as the corporate world it was written for. No startup founder or leader can just order these changes to happen, because it isn’t that easy to get other people to change their ways.

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StartupNation

MAY 10, 2021

Despite differences in their products and target audiences, the two companies likely followed similar intellectual property protection strategies on their way to the valuations that gave them unicorn status. A brief overview of the OneStream and StockX intellectual property strategies. Start Before You’re Ready. Trademarks. Copyrights.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I’m a co-founder of a company in the ultra-competitive online education market, with more than 2.5 Nowadays, we try to solve problems by negotiating; many books and experts still compare business to war. At other times, they just copy someone else’s strategy and try to implement it. million users in multiple countries.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 8, 2017

For most founders, it seems silly to hire for marketing when you don't have a product in market to sell. Writing a book on the topic, perhaps a curated set of essays on de-stressing from the world's most zen executives, celebs and processionals. Just had a few conversations with startups around how early to hire for marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. venture capital activity,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Business trip booking platform TravelPerk has bagged another rival — picking up UK-based Click Travel. We are a global travel management platform but our core markets are the US and Europe and we expect both markets to be our primary growth areas this year,” said CEO and co-founder Avi Meir.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An example: “growth at all costs” is a fairy tale made possible by cheap money that helped venture capitalists set expectations for founders — and each other — for years. “Growth at all costs” is a fairy tale made possible by cheap money that helped VCs set expectations for founders — and each other.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

My strengths as chief executive officer (CEO) of RegioHelden were typical founder qualities: I was good at designing an MVP , persuading customers and employees, raising money and defining an overall vision and strategy. Some of my greatest assets were qualities like willpower, curiosity, creativity and impatience. Big mistake.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The company launched just six months ago, has already booked $6 million of sales and is claiming astonishing conversion rates across the board, with 250 brands already using the platform, and corraling more than 1,000 influencers onto its platform. “I was head of growth and then VP of Marketing for a company called Bellhop.

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand’s representation of reality begins with and grows under the leadership of a company’s founders, its CEO and its top executives. But while Jobs was a creative genius and a celebrity, his public reputation was often described as hot-tempered, mercurial and tyrannical. We may have no sense of the people or companies behind them.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Best Books for Small Business. The gift of knowledge through great reading that gets their creative juices turning is always welcome. Smarthustle’s list of 10 best books for small business include The Common Path to Uncommon Success by John Lee Dumas, How I Built this by Guy Raz, and Profile First by Mike Michalowicz, to name a few.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level. Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . Siddharth Sinha , founder, Dresma . “It

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

But for Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward Health, he said he wished Amazon did more. Aoun explained there won’t be a need to keep up with Amazon but rather find ways to be creative within the space. You’re taking literally the world’s most impressive tech company and you’re just aiming low,” he said.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

He read a New York Times article on the adult coloring book craze, and thought, “I could do this. That included the ideal platform to make it a subscription business, the right tool to create the coloring books. Nayo Partners, her company, provided strategic consulting for founders in creative businesses.

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