Much has been said and written about the importance of leadership and leadership qualities, but very little have been said about the role of the management in a corporate hierarchy. The managers are as much, if not more important, as the leaders in the corporate sector. Without their presence and continuous efforts, a business organization will never get the work done within time. The productivity of an office or organization is measured by ratio of the finished work and the time taken to finish it. Read more
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In stark contrast to the popular notion that a startup needs to be prim and proper when it is launched, it pays to launch a minimum viable product (MVP) in the market first in order to identify risks and solve them before mass production. This goes to say that the first possible version of your startup can be a very simplistic model that should most likely embarrass you enough to work on the model more. Read more
Public relations are one of the most important aspects of your business yet it is a part often overlooked until the marketing campaign is almost ready to launch. Most of the startups make the mistake of neglecting their PR strategies. They start making urgent phone call to news agencies and try to make most of their media contacts just before the launch of a product. This is a very wrong approach to this important part of business. Read more
Written by Kouzes and Posner, the book ‘The Leadership Challenge’ describes five must needed qualities for a leadership to be effective in an organization. These qualities include modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart. Read more
Investors who wish to invest in an early stage startup in a yet unproven market or technology would usually focus on the team behind the idea. While a known market and technology would make it easier for startups to attract investors, a startup that is yet to enter a market that it hardly has any knowledge or experience in, would need to portray a strong team in order to attract potential investors. Read more
For some time now, Singapore has been pulling out all possible stops in order to build its very own Silicon Valley that would act as a startup hub for the entire Southeast Asian region. This decision might have been influenced by the recent acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook for $19 billion. Technology entrepreneurs and policy makers in Singapore believe that their own homegrown startups have a chance of being acquired by one of these global tech giants one day. This can be reiterated by the fact that Singapore’s venture capital investment scene outperformed those in Hong Kong, South Korea and even Japan. Read more
Through advertisements, the target audience gets to know about your products. Advertisement campaigns and marketing plans are as important as the core business strategies that your company follows. The advertisement campaigns you choose should say the right things about your products and uphold the brand image. If you make the mistake of choosing a bad advertising campaign, it obviously won’t bring the desired results. Read more
Timely is one of the best online service providers, who have been building online scheduling systems from a decade. They offer various systems that can help businesses to schedule their daily appointments and events in a better way. This time Timely has introduced its new All-in One Event Calendar Plug in, which is a brilliant way to list all your events in the World Press and you can even share it with rest of the world. Read more
The idea behind opting for an online marketing by various businesses is the improvement and increase in conversion rates. Every business aims to attract loads of traffic. There are many ways through which targeted traffic can be attracted; some are highly effective while others are not so effective. Therefore, selecting an ideal way is of paramount importance for any business who wants to reach the pinnacle of financial success. One such ultimate way for businesses to reach their goal of highest conversion rates is the use of Alexa Ranking system. Read more
Many people have the desire to go abroad, make good money and settle down. However, few people have overcome such temptation and returned to their motherland to start their own business and succeed in it. In the following sections, we will look at some such entrepreneurs who have launched successful startups after returning to India. Read more
How do you lead a startup? Would you want to be an authoritative power your peers look up to for advice and decisions? Or would you want to be someone they can easily approach as well as hang around with after office hours? What would be the best option for you? Read more
Startups are the new global trend. The advancement of technology has expanded the global market and it is now possible to venture in the uncharted territories with fresh ideas. Young entrepreneurs around the world are bubbling with great ideas and they are ready to invade new markets. The age of startups have started but to make your business ideas bring real time results you must learn to use some clever yet simple strategies. A businessman should have eye only on the pie or profit or end result. Nothing should come between you and your vision of a successful and thriving business. Be polite but at the same time take the necessary steps that will give your startup the much-needed stability. Your decisions should be rational and logical. Keep emotions at bay or else your judgment may get impaired. Read more
One of the first things an entrepreneur would do is to acquire some funds for his/her startup. Though most of these entrepreneurs would look towards the nearest VC or investor, there are chances that these options would not suit the startup at all. Entrepreneurs can consider several funding options before looking for VCs and angel investors. Here are some of those options. Read more
The name you give your new business could very well become one of its biggest assets. It would become the basic identifier for your brand in the market. Choosing a name for your startup would also require you to consider several factors, including the ones mentioned here. Read more
Our perception about time plays a significant role in our life. To express time efficiently through speech and actions we have invented three different tenses, present, past and future tense. Our life can be divided into six different time zones. These six different time zones include two past time zones, two present time zones and two future time zones. The people who live in the past cannot focus on their present or plan their future. They are too busy recalling the past events. Read more
An old proverb says necessity is the mother of invention. Without the urgent need for a solution to an impending problem, good ideas cannot originate. Most brilliant ideas have given birth to the solution of major problems and made our lives easier. Brilliant ideas do not originate whenever we want or need them. There is no fixed time during which brilliant ideas are born. They can occur to you unnoticed at first in the form of a mere hunch. The hunch may remain inside your mind for several years before it develops into a brilliant idea. An idea has to be acted upon or worked upon so that it can turn into an equally brilliant invention. The origin of good ideas has always been a favorite topic of research for the scientists. They have tried different methods to find out how and when good ideas are born. They have also traced the course of ideas from their origination till their implementation. Read more
Share As Image is a Chrome extension tool that you can save in your bookmarklet bar. Once you save this tool, it automatically goes with you to every site you browse. You need not open any other site or use any other application, as Share As Image is a bookmarklet tool that helps you turn any interesting text you find into an image. It is a quick way to convert text into an image. Just highlight the text, click the bookmarklet and you are ready to use Share As Image. With the latest version of Share As Image the users can upload background images, add filters, and the most interesting part – they can add watermarks as well.
In today’s competitive world, the only way for a startup to attain success is to grow fast. The following tips have been shared by entrepreneurs whose startups have achieved remarkable growth in just a couple of years. According to these entrepreneurs, these points are what every startup would need to focus on. Read more
Timely is one of the best online service providers, who have been building online scheduling systems from a decade. They offer various systems that can help businesses to schedule their daily appointments and events in a better way. This time Timely has introduced its new All-in One Event Calendar Plug in, which is a brilliant way to list all your events in the World Press and you can even share it with rest of the world.
These days there are multiple collaboration tools that enable professionals to interact and connect to one another virtually. This, in turn, has affected the economies around the globe in a big way in terms of productivity. It is suggested by the report published by McKinsey Global Institute titled “The Social Economy: Unlocking Value and Productivity through Social Technologies” that more than a trillion dollars a year may be unlocked in knowledge worker productivity and this would greatly influence growth and performance in the present century.