Thu.Mar 29, 2012

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10 Mental Toughness Fundamentals for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In sports, mental toughness is defined as the ability to focus on and execute solutions, especially in the face of adversity. If anyone in business ever needed mental toughness, it’s an entrepreneur. Investors tell me that startup success is all about execution, all while facing determined competitors and overcoming customers’ resistance to change. Dr.

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Nail the Customer Development Manifesto to the Wall

Steve Blank

When Bob Dorf and I wrote the Startup Owners Manual we listed a series of Customer Development principles. I thought they might be worth enumerating here: A Startup Is a Temporary Organization Designed to Search. for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model. There Are No Facts Inside Your Building, So Get Outside. Pair Customer Development with Agile Development.

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Trailer tow marketing

deal architect

The first 15 seconds of AT&T’s “network of possibilities” commercials like the one below, always remind me of IBM’s long running Smarter Planet commercials. And they similarly raise in my mind the question: How much of the technology in the.

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[Infographic] Anatomy Of A Top Performing Salesperson

YoungUpstarts

Being a salesperson is tough – finding a great one to hire is even tougher. But what makes a top performing salesperson? There are certain qualities that leads to one excelling at sales – being results-driven, persistent, and having a strong ego, amongst others, for example. Here’s an infographic from Peak Sales that demonstrates what it takes to be a top performer in sales, and why employers struggle to find and recruit sales people who will consistently overachieve: This info

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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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Innovation Tools — Excellent, Fair

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

It comes like clockwork, once a week, an HTML email letting me know about the latest edition of I nnovation Tools. . As I was thinking about what to post today related to innovation and reading Innovation Tools at the same time, I got one of those lovely “aha” moments (or maybe it was just an obvious but good idea hitting me over the head with a sledge hammer).

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Famigo Closes $1M Seed Round

Austin Startup

Capital Factory alumni Famigo, an Austin-based start-up dedicated to creating a better mobile experience for families, today announces the closing of a $1M seed round of financing led by Silverton Partners, with participation from Zilker Ventures, Liahona Ventures and CapitalFactory.

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Book Short: Awesome Title, So-So Book

OnlyOnce

Book Short: Awesome Title, So-So Book. Strategy and the Fat Smoker ( book , Kindle ), by David Maister, was a book that had me completely riveted in the first few chapters, then completely lost me for the rest. That was a shame. It might be worth reading it just for the beginning, though I’m not sure I can wholeheartedly recommend the purchase just for that.

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How to Make Your Customers the Hero of Your Story

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Your Customers the Hero of Your Story This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. I use the idea of hero a fair amount when I talk about what we do. I don’t use it in an egotistic way, more aspirational really than anything. I think aspiring to be a hero to someone is a good thing. kindercapes via Flckr CC. You can substitute leader if you like, but I love the image of hero because I think it paints a much more vivid illustration of the whole package – struggle, denial, acceptance, achie

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I Want to Wake Up in the City That Tweets…

thebarefootvc

About a month ago, I got a call from NASDAQ asking me if I’d participate in a video about the technology scene in NYC. The only time we could coordinate was a quick interview before I spoke at Social Media Week. The full “Made in NYC” video is below and it is a fantastic representation of the energy, talent and diversity that makes the NYC startup community so unique and vibrant.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Steve Ballmer

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Steve Balmer , the CEO of Microsoft and an impressive, energetic leader. In this insighful, two-minute clip (courtesy of Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner ), Steve discusses company culture and the tension (i.e., the “ying and yang”) between (i) patien

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8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

I write a lot of #blindpost’s, which means I read a headline and then write a post without reading the original article, to see where I’ll end up with it. This one was on Inc.com entitled, The 8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees. Here are the 8 qualities that I think make remarkable employees. 1. They are positive. 2. They are always trying to learn. 3.

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Generations

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Mar 29, 2012. Generations. One of the most interesting trends in technology and business and politics today is what I like to think of as the generational one. Meaning, what happens when the group of kids who grew up with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, iPads, Soundcloud, smart phones, streaming video and music, 1TB hard drives, cloud services, and the like, are in charge and are running Disney, the RIAA, o

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4 Time Saving Tips For Internet Marketing Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

by Sam Mauzy. Internet marketing follows a consistent approach that at its basic roots, starts with creating or obtaining a product and ends with convincing others to purchase this product. Most Internet marketers want to reach the last state as quickly as possible so that they can start earning money. Before they can improve their time management skills, they must first understand every step of the process. 1.

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By All Accounts: Eleven Essential Bookkeeping Accounts For Any Small Business Owner

YoungUpstarts

by Lita Epstein, author of Bookkeeping Kit For Dummies®. When you first started your business, you probably ran out of the gates with lots of energy and ideas. You were focused on the big picture. Bringing in customers. Creating new products and services that those customers would love. Hiring great employees. Making the big bucks! You probably didn’t spend too much time sweating the small stuff, such as learning how to read your business’s books.