This Startup Wants to Make the NBA Even More Diverse | Inc.com

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For most people, landing Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Airbnb, and Netflix as customers would be good enough. Porter Braswell, who can already count those celebrated companies to his roster, may well say his latest client is his greatest so far: the NBA.

On Thursday, Jopwell, the New York City-based recruitment platform that connects minority job candidates with prominent employers across the country, announced that it has partnered with the National Basketball Association to connect job seekers of color to the league’s offices. Teams including the Golden State Warriors, the Boston Celtics, and the L.A. Clippers have agreed to pay an undisclosed subscription fee for access to the startup’s platform, where they can then tap a minority candidate for, say, a financial analyst or data scientist job.

What Today’s Small Businesses Can Do to Beat Giant Competitors | PROFITguide.com

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Retail used to be about shelf space. Own those precious inches, and you controlled the consumer relationships. But the multitude of new buying channels enabled by e-commerce platforms has exponentially widened the shelf. Small brands now have far more control over who sees and has access to their products, as well as where and how.

The decision between two products no longer comes down to how they look side by side in-store, but how well the mission and vision of the companies producing them are communicated through a screen. Consumers are hungry for information on which to base their choices, so it’s imperative that small businesses tell their stories. That’s creating a new class of “craft” brands, which thrive on their uniqueness and connection to their customers.

Overcome the Challenges of Online Trading with These Workarounds | CoolBusinessIdeas.com

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Are you a newbie to online trading? Do you want to know why you still don’t make enough money? Every expert trader was once a beginner, but by practice and experience, they became at their game. Here are the most common mistakes and, of course, the best ways to solve them.

Rushing to make trades

Why be in a hurry to trade items which you have very little or no information? The market is not easy to anticipate, especially to newbies who rush out to touch the forbidden apple, so to say.

My best friend, Michael, started trading currency at the age of 19. Back then, everything seemed so attainable that he would often rush to make a deal as soon as he deemed the venture to be profitable.

Launching a Crowdfunding Campaign? Choose Your Words Closely | Business News Daily

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It’s not what you say, but how you say it that could determine how successful your crowdfunding campaign is, new research finds.

A study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago revealed that linguistic style, which is how one speaks, is critically important in crowdfunding campaigns, especially for social entrepreneurs.

The study’s authors found that how a pitch is voiced and worded is much more important for social entrepreneurs than it is for their commercial counterparts.

Manhattan Renters Seeking Deals Send Leasing to a Record for May | Bloomberg

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It’s a renter’s market in New York City, and apartment-seekers jumped in last month to get themselves a deal.

In Manhattan, the number of newly signed leases climbed 17 percent in May from a year earlier to 5,969, the biggest total for the month in nine years of record-keeping, according to a report Thursday by appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate. In Brooklyn, new apartment contracts surged 23 percent to 1,460, also the biggest total for the month in data going back to 2008.

New Tesla Model 3 orders unlikely to ship before end of 2018 | CNN Money

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If you haven’t already pre-ordered the Tesla Model 3, don’t expect to own the car anytime this year — or next.

“This will be a long wait,” Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said at the company’s annual shareholder conference on Tuesday. “I’m guessing if you put a deposit down now, it’s probably end of next year before you get it.”

Musk’s estimate suggests an even greater backlog than expected. On Tesla’s website, the delivery estimate for new Model 3 reservations is “mid 2018 or later.”

10 Signs You’re a Horrible Boss And How To Correct It | Getentrepreneurial.com

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The problem is not them; it’s YOU!

You’re done working with the most monstrous bosses of all times. You probably swore to yourself that when that time comes where you’re the one managing people, you will do things differently. That day has now come – you’re already a boss.

You may have good intentions like an all-expense paid team building for the top performing department or a company outing in its founding anniversary. But how can you implement all of those when there is a stack of emails, meetings, phone calls and a whole bunch of demanding clients and tough decisions that were supposed to be due last week?

Why Small Business Owners Should Consider Getting an App | Duct Tape Marketing

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As a small business owner, asking “why should I create an app?” is a lot like asking “do I really need a website?” was a few years ago. Sure, it was (and still is) possible to do much of what you need using a Facebook page, but they’re just not built to do what a website can.

While a Facebook page can, for example, show opening times, it’s not so easy to offer a detailed breakdown of lunch, dinner and a la carte menus. In that respect, Facebook pages are to websites as mobile websites/responsive sites are to mobile apps; they get the job done, just about, but you generally can’t use them to do EVERYTHING that you’d like to.

This post will cover a few of the advantages of creating your own app as opposed to using a responsive site or, even worse, not doing anything with mobile at all.

Apple announces the HomePod | TechCrunch

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Apple’s long-rumored Amazon Echo competitor is real. It’s called the HomePod (yes, I know). “We want to reinvent home music,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the company’s WWDC keynote. The Apple Speaker is focused on music first, not Siri.

Apple’s SVP of Global Marketing Phil Schiller said Sonos aren’t smart speakers and Amazon Echos aren’t good speakers. So Apple wants to combine the best of both worlds. It’s a smart marketing strategy. HomePod is shipping later this year — it’s not quite ready for prime time.

Harvard bars students for posting ‘obscene memes’ | BBC News

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“Obscene” memes posted on a private Facebook page have cost 10 students their place at Harvard, reports the college’s newspaper.

The students posted messages joking about child abuse, sexual assault, paedophilia and the Holocaust.

Members of the group also directed several racial slurs at minorities, said the report.

Free speech advocates criticised Harvard’s actions saying the punishment was “draconian”.