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10 Ways to Build a Business Culture Like Apple

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. The challenge is how to do it, and how to do it right. Why not learn what you can from companies like Apple, who are leading the way with great growth and a great culture?

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The Technology X Games

deal architect

In my last book, The New Polymath, I used a somewhat old-fashioned literary style of a Prologue and an Epilogue.

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Singapore Could Take Regional Lead In Social Enterprise: Mechai Viravaidya

YoungUpstarts

Singapore is the best Southeast Asian country to produce and promote social entrepreneurship in the region, according to Mr Mechai Viravaidya, founder of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA). Speaking at the Singapore International Foundation (SIF)’s seventh Ideas for a Better World Forum on 29 February, the 71-year-old was addressing the need to nurture new generations of social entrepreneurs.

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Apple’s secret iPhone lock-in feature

VC Adventure

If you’ve been following my twitter feed you’ll know that about a month ago I finally made the switch from AT&T to Verizon (brief conclusion: what took me so long? from my experience this month, the VZ network is vastly superior). At the same time I decided that I’d give Android a real try (I’d played around with it in the past, but never adopted it as my primary device).

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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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[Event] DEMO Asia: Is Being Female A Handicap?

YoungUpstarts

by Elisha Tan, founder of Learnemy. Seeing all the pitches at the recent DEMO Asia , it’s not difficult to see there were only a handful of female founders around. We this question to three female founders from Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore – it is difficult to start up being a woman? No, all three founders echoed. “Although there are more male than female founders in Indonesia, I receive the same amount of trust and respect in the workplace as my male counterparts,” says Indonesia-

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Small Business Tips: Foreign Payments, The Patriot Act, OFAC, and you.

crowdSPRING Blog

Every time I find myself on the security line at the airport, I watch the folks ahead of me anticipating that someone will be pulled from the line because their name appeared on the TSA “no-fly” list. I have yet to see this happen, but I sympathize with the poor schlub whose name matches that of a known evil-doer. Many small businesses that regularly make overseas payments to customers, vendors, or clients are unaware that they too may fall victim to a lesser-known “no-fly̶

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Mini Saga #123 – Realization

Life Beyond Code

Mini Saga #123 – Realization. “You are not worth it,” Tara had left him forever. Tara was everything for him. He thought he had failed miserably. So, when Maya walked into his life, he resisted getting close to her. When he finally opened up, he realized that it was Tara who was not worth it. It is easy to blame someone as the only cause for your misery and it is also easy to think that you are the only one to be blamed for all misery.

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Apple’s secret iPhone lock-in feature

VC Adventure

If you’ve been following my twitter feed you’ll know that about a month ago I finally made the switch from AT&T to Verizon (brief conclusion: what took me so long? from my experience this month, the VZ network is vastly superior). At the same time I decided that I’d give Android a real try (I’d played around with it in the past, but never adopted it as my primary device).

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Brand in decline – Qantas

Start Up Blog

I’ve been loyal to Qantas for a very long time. Initially because it was superior (certainly in the post Ansett environment) more recently because of irrational reasons and lack of choice. These days are now officially over. But rather than bore you with the number of brand fails I have had to endure, I’ll share with you the catalyst event which has now resulted in my decision.

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SXSW

ConversionXL

Hey. I’ll be at SXSWi all next week and then some. If any of the readers of ConversionXL are there, would awesome to meet up. Email me peep@conversionxl.com.

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My Guild Guitar Is Stuff That Works

Duct Tape Marketing

My Guild Guitar Is Stuff That Works This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. This is a new Sunday series that I’m calling Stuff that Works. Each Sunday I’ll pick an item that is for me a foundation element in my line up of stuff that matters or as legendary Texas singer songwriter Guy Clark put it – “The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall.”. This is the guitar I've played since 1982.

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London Business School | Luxury Business Plan Competition

Campus Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship education continues to evolve to meet the needs of students and the marketplace. The new luxury business plan competition at London Business School is an innovative new take on the classic bplan competition. From the Financial : Applicants from London Business School are being invited to submit business plans that demonstrate pioneering thinking and innovative approaches in the luxury sector.