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Myths Prevent Entrepreneur Thinking About Employees

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business.

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Infor: a grown-up stealth start-up

deal architect

I have known Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor for going on 2 decades now. He was a polymath way before I wrote a book celebrating them. He has computer science and law degrees in addition to an MBA. He is.

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Sales Positions at Device Ident

Babbling VC

Please excuse this commercial break on BabblingVC. We've recently launched Device Ident out of Liquid Labs and are looking to quickly build out the team. Due to very positive market resonance, we're looking to quickly ramp up a sales team of two to three people. Initially, we need a Head of Sales to help us get going. If you or anyone you know has some start-up experience, comes out of the sales space and wants to be part of a quickly growing, financed business let us know.

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Insights For New Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

by Greg Glebe, founder and CEO of Pedestal Source. Unless you are like Andrew Mason, the overnight millionaire who created the social media sensation Groupon, or Jonathan Duhamel, the million-dollar poker player, the path to wealth and fame will not come as easily or as quickly to you or your new business. New business owners looking for the big red button that will make things simple and easy are in for a lot of trouble and heartache because starting a new business means you are in for the roll

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Entrepreneurs Need ‘Go-To’ People, and Be the Model

Gust

Image via Facebook. Go-to people get things done. As an entrepreneur, you need these people, and you need to be one, if you expect your startup to be successful. That may be easier said than done, since resumes do not tell the story, and without real nurturing, the best people won’t stay around long. To highlight how rare this breed is, Jeffrey Gandz of the Richard Ivey School of Business relates a quote from a new CEO in a large company, “I have more than 1000 people in my head office org

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[Infographic] The Gender Gap Is Also A Virtual One

YoungUpstarts

Despite the advancement of women’s rights around the world – such as women’s suffrage and better education opportunities – women continue to suffer discrimination as compared to men, whether it is at the workplace , or having access to vital services such as the Internet. That’s right – women around the world lag men by around 25-percent with regards to Internet adoption.

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Being friends with breakfast cereal is over

Start Up Blog

Attracting and serving fans has been a past time of brands for the past few years on Facebook. To the point where the accumulation itself became the objective. And while I keep looking for the cracks to appear in Facebook it seems to be able to continue to grow despite it’s huge size. Maybe the barriers to exit to the service are too high for consumers to leave?

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Maternova Experiences Impressive Growth Since Winning Palo Alto Software’s First LivePlan $10,000 Business Boost Competition

Up and Running

In its goal to make the world a better place for mothers and babies worldwide, Maternova has enjoyed landmark achievements since winning LivePlan’s $10,000 Boost business plan competition. Eugene, OR (PRWEB) February 14, 2013. Palo Alto Software announced today that it is excited to see the ongoing growth of Rhode Island-based startup, Maternova ([link] , the social venture startup winner of Palo Alto Software’s first annual national business plan competition in 2012, dubbed the “LivePlan $10,

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The Space Between the Notes

entrepreMusings

“Music is the space between the notes.” ~ Claude Debussy. Everyone is so busy these days. We fill our lives with things that take us from here to there in minutes, when even just fifty years ago it might have taken us hours or days to do something. The infrequent times I get to work on my music are the times I get to exercise a different part of my brain.

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