If all you know of crowdfunding for startups is the world of Kickstarter, you’re missing out on a booming opportunity to raise money online. Equity crowdfunding (aka crowdinvesting) is not right for every startup, but for some entrepreneurs, it can be a terrific way to raise capital and get great investor expertise for your small […]
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Over 80% of the clothes women aren’t wearing is worth half a trillion dollars in the US according to Finery founder and CEO Whitney Casey. Finery, which was just listed in CNBC’s Upstart 100 list of promising young startups, keeps track of all your clothing purchases and creates a digital wardrobe and then helps style
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The advent of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impacts more than individuals and companies in Europe. In fact, it has far-reaching effects for anyone who purchases or sells goods around the world. Business professionals who have basically left the issue of data privacy laws to their IT teams are beginning to realize there’s
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The wedding niche is a $100 billion industry in the US alone and is ripe for ecommerce startups. In 2013, Shan-lyn Ma and Nobu Nakaguchi realized through their own experiences that they could not only improve on but literally reinvent the wedding industry, so they started Zola. According to Shan-lyn Ma, Zola is the fastest
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rawpixel / Pixabay As humans, we all have biases. We’d like to think we’re all perfectly logical all the time, but the reality is that we have moments when we aren’t thinking clearly and we make faulty decisions. Cognitive biases cloud our thinking because we stick with what we think we know. One of the
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Businesses of all types and in all industries face challenges as startups. While some obstacles are out of a business owner’s control, others are avoidable. In the spirit of football season, let’s discuss some of the most common “fumbles” startups face and how to tackle them before they set back your end game. 1. Failure
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An application called Alice will help business and their employees take advantage of pre-tax spending to the tune of hundreds or thousands of dollars every year. A Peek at the Alice Pre-Tax Spending App Alice gets connected to the payroll of participating employers and once it is up and running, it monitors the pre-tax eligible
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Learn why you need to invest in digital marketing for your business. No one starts a business today without having a proper digital marketing strategy. This is because digital marketing today has to be at the center of any marketing strategy for any business whatever its size. If you are in the initial stages of
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6 Ways to launch and grow your startup using content marketing Launching a start-up can be an exhilarating experience. However, there’s a difference between launching a startup and being able to grow a startup so that it becomes a long-term success. After all, there’s a reason why many startups tend to fail within a few
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Traditionally, startup businesses draft a business plan for three specific reasons: to articulate their vision for the business, to document how they plan to solve key challenges, and to pitch their business idea to potential investors. But what if I told you that business plans for startup companies are usually not worth the effort? My
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