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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Simple And Effective Ways To Promote Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Whether you’re a startup looking at taking those first steps into the business world or an established company wanting to expand your customer base, marketing your business is an important step in getting your brand in front of the right people. Get social with customers and clients. Then we come to good old-fashioned networking.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications.

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Three Leadership Pitfalls To Avoid While Leading In This Crisis

YoungUpstarts

by Alain Hunkins , author of “ Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders “ Believe it or not, it was just a few short weeks ago when we naively thought that we were already being challenged to lead in a world of constant disruption. Oh, how little I knew. The disruptions were just warming up.