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executive coaching

What Is Executive Coaching And Why Does It Matter?

Executive coaching can help you better tackle current challenges, limit future challenges, bridge communication gaps with colleagues, and diffuse conflicts Those who frequent LinkedIn and other startup circles will almost certainly be familiar with the term ‘executive coaching.’ It has its advocates and its detractors, but many founders still lack an understanding of what it […]

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Executive coaching can help you better tackle current challenges, limit future challenges, bridge communication gaps with colleagues, and diffuse conflicts Those who frequent LinkedIn and other startup circles will almost certainly be familiar with the term ‘executive coaching.’ It has its advocates and its detractors, but many founders still lack an understanding of what it

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video conferencing

10 Tips For A Seamless Video Conferencing Experience

Following these simple tips can ensure a smoother video conferencing experience while boosting your meeting’s productivity, effectiveness and efficiency With social distancing and travel restrictions being imposed throughout the world to combat the global pandemic, virtual meetings and video collaborations have quickly emerged as a key to remote working. In fact, video conferencing has come

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Following these simple tips can ensure a smoother video conferencing experience while boosting your meeting’s productivity, effectiveness and efficiency With social distancing and travel restrictions being imposed throughout the world to combat the global pandemic, virtual meetings and video collaborations have quickly emerged as a key to remote working. In fact, video conferencing has come

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Mentor

Mentors and Advisers: 4 Qualities That Set Them Apart

How mentors and advisers do the same thing, but differently Most people use the words shade, hue, and tint to mean color. An artist will tell you, however, that there is a difference. While hues are the actual base colors, shades and tints are darker and lighter notes of those underlying colors. The difference between

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How mentors and advisers do the same thing, but differently Most people use the words shade, hue, and tint to mean color. An artist will tell you, however, that there is a difference. While hues are the actual base colors, shades and tints are darker and lighter notes of those underlying colors. The difference between

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Mentor

Finding Your First Mentor

How young businesses can win over a mentor that ticks the right boxes. One way of reinventing the wheel is to find the person who invented it, and get them to mentor you. As veterans in their fields, mentors can use their experience to help founders hop, skip, and jump past potential hurdles. For an

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How young businesses can win over a mentor that ticks the right boxes. One way of reinventing the wheel is to find the person who invented it, and get them to mentor you. As veterans in their fields, mentors can use their experience to help founders hop, skip, and jump past potential hurdles. For an

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5 Things To Remember When Choosing Startup Names

5 Things To Remember When Choosing Startup Names

What Asia-based businesses should keep in mind when choosing startup names. A startup’s name is usually the first, most basic level at which the audience starts to interact with a business. Subconsciously, they are already forming ideas of what your brand is about, and what they can expect from you. In this situation, a startup

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What Asia-based businesses should keep in mind when choosing startup names. A startup’s name is usually the first, most basic level at which the audience starts to interact with a business. Subconsciously, they are already forming ideas of what your brand is about, and what they can expect from you. In this situation, a startup

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B2B Ecommerce Unicorn Udaan Lays Off At Least 3,000 Contractual Employees

Udaan has offered one month’s gross salary and three months of group medical insurance as compensation Bengaluru-based Business-to-Business (B2B) ecommerce unicorn Udaan has laid off an estimated 10%-15% of its contractual staff (approximately 3,000-3,500 contract-based employees), through emails sent by Udaan’s consulting firms on April 24. According to several employees who took to Twitter to

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Udaan has offered one month’s gross salary and three months of group medical insurance as compensation Bengaluru-based Business-to-Business (B2B) ecommerce unicorn Udaan has laid off an estimated 10%-15% of its contractual staff (approximately 3,000-3,500 contract-based employees), through emails sent by Udaan’s consulting firms on April 24. According to several employees who took to Twitter to

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Accounting

The Importance of Startup Accounting for Founders

Understanding why startups need accounting, what are some of the common mistakes, and how to avoid them As a new entrepreneur, you are probably working endlessly on developing your product, preparing investment pitches, finding a technical co-founder, and chasing suppliers or customers. Accounting may not be a task of foremost importance on your mind. You

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Understanding why startups need accounting, what are some of the common mistakes, and how to avoid them As a new entrepreneur, you are probably working endlessly on developing your product, preparing investment pitches, finding a technical co-founder, and chasing suppliers or customers. Accounting may not be a task of foremost importance on your mind. You

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one-pager

Creating A One-Pager for Your Startup’s Next Fundraise

By Tanisha Lele Optimizing this one-page document to provide the perfect sneak-peek of your startup. A one-pager plays a crucial role in raising funds for any early-stage business. It can help to define a startup and its mission, along with its current position in the market (financial and otherwise). Coming up with the perfect one-pager

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By Tanisha Lele Optimizing this one-page document to provide the perfect sneak-peek of your startup. A one-pager plays a crucial role in raising funds for any early-stage business. It can help to define a startup and its mission, along with its current position in the market (financial and otherwise). Coming up with the perfect one-pager

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digital banking

Cracking the Code to Digital Banking Success

By Arvind Swami   “We live in a time of great change. Thanks to technology, the rate of change around us continues to accelerate,” said Jim Whitehurst, president of IBM. Although today’s banking landscape in Asia-Pacific is proving slow to change, the springboards that could redefine banking are quickly emerging.   One such springboard is

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By Arvind Swami   “We live in a time of great change. Thanks to technology, the rate of change around us continues to accelerate,” said Jim Whitehurst, president of IBM. Although today’s banking landscape in Asia-Pacific is proving slow to change, the springboards that could redefine banking are quickly emerging.   One such springboard is

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The Remote Working Revolution

Research-backed rules for a solid work-from-home policy One of the first known uses of the term “digital nomad” was in a 1997 book of the same name. Today, digital nomadism, or remote working, is both a lifestyle and a career option legitimized by freelancers and consultants. In the time of COVID-19, millions of people across

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Research-backed rules for a solid work-from-home policy One of the first known uses of the term “digital nomad” was in a 1997 book of the same name. Today, digital nomadism, or remote working, is both a lifestyle and a career option legitimized by freelancers and consultants. In the time of COVID-19, millions of people across

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The 11 Best Podcast Channels for Entrepreneurs

By Aditya S. A starting point for amateur podcast listeners Every entrepreneur craves new strategies and skills to maximize their business growth. But finding time to read a book or attend a seminar can be difficult while also trying to balance business and family. This is where podcasts can come in extremely handy. Podcasts have

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By Aditya S. A starting point for amateur podcast listeners Every entrepreneur craves new strategies and skills to maximize their business growth. But finding time to read a book or attend a seminar can be difficult while also trying to balance business and family. This is where podcasts can come in extremely handy. Podcasts have

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Top 10 Productivity Apps for Working From Home

Getting work done outside of the office can become easier with these productivity tools The novel coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 168,000 people across the globe, with more than 6,600 deaths recorded worldwide (World Health Organization). As part of the efforts to curb the spread of this global pandemic, thousands of employees have been

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Getting work done outside of the office can become easier with these productivity tools The novel coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 168,000 people across the globe, with more than 6,600 deaths recorded worldwide (World Health Organization). As part of the efforts to curb the spread of this global pandemic, thousands of employees have been

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Installing a Customer Feedback System on Your Website

By Reggie Addae Set your website for success with a bonus ‘how-to guide’ When it comes to optimization, one of the most important practices that all marketers need to undertake is gathering actionable insights. Feedback is crucial because it allows you to identify sources of friction that stop customers from taking an action. It can

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By Reggie Addae Set your website for success with a bonus ‘how-to guide’ When it comes to optimization, one of the most important practices that all marketers need to undertake is gathering actionable insights. Feedback is crucial because it allows you to identify sources of friction that stop customers from taking an action. It can

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Five Financial Errors New Entrepreneurs Make

By Dean Kaplan Easy reminders to keep your business financials in good shape Do you remember getting your driver’s license? You spent months (maybe even years) waiting for the moment you could drive. You studied the book, took the tests and practiced with your parents. You were excited, but even though you’d never admit it

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By Dean Kaplan Easy reminders to keep your business financials in good shape Do you remember getting your driver’s license? You spent months (maybe even years) waiting for the moment you could drive. You studied the book, took the tests and practiced with your parents. You were excited, but even though you’d never admit it

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Consistency Above All

By Jasmine Chan Click Ventures Founder Carman Chan discusses the path to success Even though Carman Chan is one of Asia’s most influential women in tech, she is continuously looking for ways to further expand her reach. Named by Preqin as the ‘most consistently top-performing VC fund manager globally,’ Chan’s firm, Click Ventures, invests in

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By Jasmine Chan Click Ventures Founder Carman Chan discusses the path to success Even though Carman Chan is one of Asia’s most influential women in tech, she is continuously looking for ways to further expand her reach. Named by Preqin as the ‘most consistently top-performing VC fund manager globally,’ Chan’s firm, Click Ventures, invests in

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Do I Have Your Attention?

By Elisa Choy In today’s economy, the currency of power is not attention–it’s engagement American economist and political scientist, Herbert Simon, was ahead of his time. In the early 1970s, he realized that information would no longer be a scarce resource in an era of media saturation. Instead, people’s attention would be in demand.  It

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By Elisa Choy In today’s economy, the currency of power is not attention–it’s engagement American economist and political scientist, Herbert Simon, was ahead of his time. In the early 1970s, he realized that information would no longer be a scarce resource in an era of media saturation. Instead, people’s attention would be in demand.  It