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Running Board Meetings – Six Tips

This web link has been contributed by Emily Williams

If your entrepreneurial business has just started convening meetings of the Board of Directors, it will be important to ensure you do not end up having pointless lengthy conversations leading to ‘zero results’. With some careful planning and foresight, you can make these meetings livelier, engaging, effective and highly productive.

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Board Meetings

Minimum Viable Product – MVP

The minimum viable product (MVP), as defined by Eric Ries in his book the Lean Startup, is a learning vehicle. It allows you to test an idea by exposing an early version of your product to the target users and customers, to collect the relevant data, and to learn form it. For instance, to test the viability of using ads as the major revenue source, you could release an early product increment with fake ads, and measure if and how often people click on them.

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Minimum Viable Product

Give Constructive Feedback

You can download here a tool that provides some tips on how to give constructive feedback to improve your human resources management as well as the motivation and performance of your employees. You may adapt it to your business needs and employment conditions. Click the image below to access the web link:

 

feedback

 

Interested in HR? Checkout this HR Management training

Women Entrepreneurs – Thinking Big

A model that works to help small companies led by women entrepreneurs into large enterprises suggests that the most successful entrepreneurs do five key things to scale small companies into large ones. They think big and are bold, they build a public profile, they work on the business rather than in it, they establish key advisory networks and they leverage financing for expansion. Click on the image below to access the web link.

 

Force multipliers for growth

Free Online Courses on Social Media

If you are new to social media and need a set of free online courses that can help you to get familiar quickly with the various social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc, then this is a great resource. The courses include not just general concepts but how-to details including screenshots. Click on the image below to acccess the web link

 

free online courses on social media

Business Plan Template

Once you have a model for your business, a business plan is important too. Rather than trying to figure out which template to use, try using one that can cater to mosr kinds of businesses. Click on the image below to acccess the web link for this

 

Business Plan Template