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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

EventMB

Are you looking to raise venture capital ? You need a good idea – and an excellent business plan. Business planning and raising venture capital go hand-in-hand. A business plan is required for attracting venture capital. And the desire to raise capital (whether from an individual “angel” investor or a venture capital firm) is often the key motivator in the business planning process.

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Microvideo Strategies for Rockstars

BizBash

Chunking, bite-size, and micro: These are all terms you’ve seen in training magazines and blogs, but what does it mean to shorten the length of training content—specifically video? At our DevLearn 2017 eLearning Rockstars stage, Josh Cavalier of Lodestone covered what it takes to successfully implement an end-to-end microvideo strategy. Watch the video below to learn strategies for planning, creating, and distributing microvideo content that will make you an L&D rockstar!

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How This Social Entrepreneur Impacts The Slums Of Mumbai To Silicon Valley

SmartMeetings

Kunal Sood is a social entrepreneur, the Founder of The Novus Summit , and X Fellows. He is also a partner at the X-Impact Group. Sood is breaking ground at the intersection of education, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Sood is engaged in high-tech startups, curates high-octane flagship summits, and serves on the board as an advisor to various education and entrepreneur initiatives.

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The Top 10 Videos for Event Planners

BizBash

Video content is quickly becoming an essential for every event. It is also an essential and modern way to consume content in an easy to digest and convenient format. Last year, we launched the EventMB Youtube channel with the aim to share video content to help event planners to be even more successful. Fast forward […]. The post The Top 10 Videos for Event Planners by EventMB Team appeared first on [link].

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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Event Volunteer Check-Ins: Where the Puzzle Pieces Fit

InitLive

Whether your event is a massive production with hundreds or thousands of volunteers, or a more intimate event, the most important thing to an event manager is simple: peace of mind. While this applies to everything under their command, one of the most work-intensive aspects is the managing of volunteers. There is nothing more reassuring than knowing, in real-time, that your volunteers are on-site, in place, and doing the jobs that they've been assigned with efficiency and professionalism.

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How to improve your meeting outcomes

Plan Your Meetings

Meetings are an important tool in any business, but they can often go awry. With poorly defined agendas, individuals speaking up for self-validation and poor leadership, catch-ups can easily overrun, breaking up the flow of the day and reducing productivity. Poorly planned meetings can cause more harm than good. So how can you improve meeting outcomes and what is the best way to get the most out of your team?

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The Future of Supply Chain Planning- People, Process and Organizational Learning

BizBash

This Supply Chain Matters blog commentary is the third in a market education series developed in collaboration with Kinaxis on exploring the future of supply chain planning.

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An Event App That Gives Back

PCMA Convene

Photo credit: Getty Images. Imagine that with one tap on their mobile phone, an attendee of an environmental conference could sign a petition to protect U.S. public lands. With another tap, an attendee of an education conference could call on politicians to increase education funding in impoverished neighborhoods. And for doing so, they’d be rewarded with tickets to sporting and entertainment events.

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This is Why You Should Change the Way You Think About Events

BizBash

In one of his incredibly valuable articles, Gary Vaynerchuk recently said, “My biggest problem right now, in general, is that I feel that the far majority of people in business organizations and media companies all across the board are storytelling in 2017 like it’s 2007.” We’ll paraphrase his idea and say: Our biggest worry is […]. La entrada This is Why You Should Change the Way You Think About Events aparece primero en Eventtia | Event management software.

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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Forms Follow Function

PCMA Convene

Successful Formula D.C. residents — helped by behavioral scientists, design experts, and others — cut through red tape. No matter how dry or lifeless it seems, any subject can make for a good meeting. It just depends no how you frame and present things. Exhibit A (Subsection 3, Paragraph R, Line 5): Form-a-Palooza. Yes, it was an event designed to improve the experience of filling out government forms.

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Initial Indications of an Overall Optimistic 2017 Holiday Fulfillment Period

BizBash

Initial indications point to the 2017 holiday fulfillment period looking to be a rather good year for the retail industry and its supplier and services stakeholders.

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . Read on to find out why we expect more diversity in business-event speakers, why we think relationships will be key to improved event security, and why we are following the rise of artificial intelligence and cognitive-enhancing drugs.

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Best of 2017: 10 Most Notable Toronto Venue Openings of 2017

BizBash

This year saw the opening of many significant event and meeting venues in Toronto. Here's a look at the best.

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B2B Events in 2023 - What You Need to Know

Get ahead of the curve and stay informed with Zuddl's industry report on the future of B2B events in 2023. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights from leading experts in the field. Make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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Best of 2017: 10 Most Notable Chicago Venue Openings of 2017

BizBash

This year saw the opening of many significant event and meeting venues in Chicago. Here's a look at the best.

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How Blockchain Can Disrupt Financial Services

BizBash

This table below highlights how blockchain can disrupt various aspects of the financial services industry. Function Current Process Future Process Impacted. Security and Digital Identity – Compliance (KYC) The Know Your Customer (KYC) regulation is an integral part of global anti-money laundering (AML) efforts. Compiling and maintaining these databases is expensive for financial services; this can lead to duplication of effort and can delay transactions.