In episode 16 of the Smart Startup English podcast, we’re talking about what happens to brands that fail to keep up with the pace of innovation. 

As a case study, we analyze several large brands that, even though they were once at the forefront of innovation, have recently fallen behind their competitors.

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Episode 16 - The price of missing out on innovation (Business English)

In episode 17 of the Smart Startup English podcast, we’re talking about what you should do when your manager has unrealistic expectations. Or if you’re a freelancer, you may be dealing with unrealistic expectations from clients. 

Expectations refers to something that someone believes or hopes will happen in the future. If someone has unrealistic expectations of you, that means they want you to accomplish something that’s hard or impossible to accomplish. A manager might have unrealistic expectations about deadlines or about the workload - the amount of work that an employee can do.

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Episode 17 - How to manage unrealistic expectations at work (Business English)

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Una delle parole più popolari e usate dell'anno 2020 sarà sicuramente  "COVID-19". Leggiamo insieme che cos'è, come si trasmette, quali sono i sintomi e quali le precauzioni prendere per non ammalarsi.

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Il coronavirus spiegato in italiano semplice (LIVELLO B1)

In episode 18 of the Smart Startup English podcast, we’re talking about candidate engagement. This refers to how well candidates feel they were treated during the recruiting process. It’s not surprising that about 60 percent of the people applying for a job think that they haven’t been treated fairly during their job search.

A survey found that when job seekers have a bad experience, about 42% of them would never apply to that company again and 22% said they would tell others not to apply either. And people even report that they stop buying a company’s products if they feel that the company treated them poorly.

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Episode 18 - Three strategies for effective candidate engagement (Business English)

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La cucina italiana è semplice ma famosa in tutto il mondo. E’ infatti una cucina molto gustosa e ricca di sapori; spesso i suoi piatti più famosi sono anche molto semplici da preparare.

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In episode 21, we’re talking about the French Tech Mission - a government-backed initiative to attract young businesses to France and encourage investment. 

Technically, it’s a department of the French government, but practically it’s operating right in the middle of one of the world’s biggest startup campuses in the heart of Paris: Station F.  

The initiative also has local offices in other French cities - right in the middle of the local startup communities. They call themselves a new type of civil servants that can help startups bridge the gap between policy and the practical aspects of starting a business in France.

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Episode 21 - The French Tech initiative for startups (Business English)

In this week's episode, we're talking about science and technology parks.

Technology parks are places that bring together universities, companies, startups and other stakeholders in order to work together and promote a culture of innovation.

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These parks are physical locations where these stakeholders rent office space to work and to keep connected to what’s going on in the industry.

Are there any science and technology parks in your country? 

In this episode, we use the term "technology park," but the full name is actually Science and Technology Park - or STP, for short. There are a couple of other names for this concept, such as research park, technopolis or technopoles.

Episode 22 - What is a technology park? (Business English)

In episode 22, we explained what tech parks are, how the whole concept started and what their role is in fostering innovation. 

This episode is a follow up, but this time we’ll discuss tech parks from the perspective of a startup founder or CEO. 

We’ll try to answer the question: should I move my startup to a tech park?

In this episode, we'll talk about five reasons why you might want to consider setting up a business in a tech park.

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Episode 23 - Should I move my startup to a tech park? (Business English)

Welcome to the Smart Startup English podcast, episode 25. In this episode, we’re talking about startup co-living. This term refers to living with people who aren’t your family, or living in a larger community with a lot of shared resources. 

This trend is gaining a lot of popularity in the world of digital entrepreneurs, digital nomads and startup founders.

If you rent in a co-living community, you’ll get your own living space - it could be a simple bedroom, a studio, or it might even be an apartment. That depends on your budget, of course, but also on the type of co-living community you’re joining.

In this episode, we talk about the reasons why entrepreneurs choose to move to a co-living community, as well as the possible reasons why this might not be a good choice for others. 

A few new expressions we’re explaining in this episode include: a flat fee, amenities, price tag, upmarket. 

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Episode 25 - Startup co-living (Business English)

In episode 26 of our Business English podcast, we dispel the myth of the young startup founder.

According to a 2018 analysis conducted by MIT professors and published in the Harvard Business Review, the average age of entrepreneurs at the time they founded their companies was 42 in the United States. 

But do you think the age of the founder influences the success of the startup? 

Here is what the study found. The founders of the top 0.1% of startups, founded these companies when they were 45 years old, on average. 
The same is true in other countries with a growing startup culture. 
In Germany, for example, almost 20 percent of tech founders were over the age of 45 in 2016, according to a study by KPMG.

A few new words we’re explaining in this episode include: whiz kid, to outpace, to plunge, an outlier. 

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Episode 26 - The average age of startup founders (Business English)

A bite-sized Business English podcast for startup professionals. Our goal is to help startup professionals take their English from intermediate to advanced in under 10 minutes a day. In each episode, we'll talk about a topic related to the startup world, and we'll learn some vocabulary that you can use to sound more natural in your day-to-day business interactions in English.

Episode 17 - How to manage unrealistic expectations at work (Business English)

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