Fri.Nov 27, 2020

article thumbnail

The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Erich Joachimsthaler , founder and CEO of VIVALDI envisions a new business model—one that creates shared value for all. Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

article thumbnail

There’s no ‘hacker house’ geared toward undergraduate women, so they created one of their own

TechCrunch

Hacker houses are making a comeback for entrepreneurs as remote work drags on. While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are done with undergraduate to plunge into the lifestyle themselves. Started by college juniors Coco Sack and Kendall Titus , Womxn Ignite is a house for female and non-binary college undergraduates studying computer science.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Talk About the Arc of Your Career

This is going to be BIG.

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.

article thumbnail

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Shop Local and Shop Mainstreet This Holiday Season (Episode 149)

StartupNation

It’s officially holiday shopping season! While most of us will be doing our holiday shopping online this year (a reported 42 percent say they’ll be doing all of their shopping online), before you hit that “buy” button online, consider your local merchants. On this morning’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff talks about the importance of supporting local merchants this holiday season, and how new platforms like Shop Mainstreet can make holiday shopping easier than ever before.

article thumbnail

Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

article thumbnail

Is it your brilliant plan or your execution?

Berkonomics

Mike Tyson: brilliant business savant. “Everybody’s got a plan – until they are punched in the face,” famously stated boxer Mike Tyson. My experience personally reviewing over three hundred executive summaries each year, all sent to me unsolicited, seems to bear out the truth in Tyson’s statement. Anyone can build a good – or great – plan. Investors have to look behind the plan and at the entrepreneur and his or her team, knowing that, over time, most of us have come to the conclusion th

More Trending

article thumbnail

Funding Friday: Active Shield

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I’ve been biking several times a week in NYC this fall and every mask I’ve worn has caused me problems with fogging my glasses and making it harder to breath. I’ve tried a bunch of different masks and nothing works great. So when I saw this project to make something better for working out on Kickstarter, I backed it right away.

218
218
article thumbnail

How Atlassian Grew To Become One of Australia’s Most Successful Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Today it’s worth $53 Billion with a portfolio of products Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

startup 74
article thumbnail

This Jewelry Store Boosts its Holiday Traffic with Google My Business

StartupNation

Werkheiser Jewelers began serving the Lehigh Valley with custom design, restoration and repair in 1992. Employees take pride in fine jewelry sales, creating custom jewelry—including wedding bands and engagement rings—and in restoring cherished family heirlooms. They have a laid-back, customer-oriented shop where you’ll be greeted with a smile—and maybe even by one of their dogs.

77
article thumbnail

How to Save Over 10 Hours a Week by Outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Spend less than 1 hour a week managing a VA with these 7 tools. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

article thumbnail

The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

article thumbnail

[Remilk in Times of Israel] Don’t have a cow: Israel’s Remilk serves up dairy products made without animals

OurCrowd

Startup says it has pioneered milk proteins ‘chemically identical’ to those in cow-produced milk, for products with the same taste and texture, but no cholesterol or lactose. Read more here. The post [Remilk in Times of Israel] Don’t have a cow: Israel’s Remilk serves up dairy products made without animals appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

startup 41