Sun.Jan 31, 2016

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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Super Tech Waste Bowl

deal architect

Nearly half of next Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 Host Committee's 18 primary sponsors are tech companies — Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Intuit, SAP, Seagate, Yahoo and Verizon. Lots of corporate parties expected to be hosted by tech companies in.

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10 Creativity Barriers To Overcome In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who think the most creatively, not only in their initial product or service, but more importantly all through the stages of growth from startup to maturity. But even the best of them can easily slip into some bad decision habits that limit or hurt their business, due to natural human tendencies and the pressures of business challenges.

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10 Things You Need To Do When An Employee Resigns

YoungUpstarts

by Ian Cowley, Managing Director of cartridgesave.co.uk. Whether it’s a bolt out of the blue or completely expected, there are several things you need to do, plus a few additional things you should d o to make their departure as smooth as possible for both of you. Here’s my checklist: 1. Get written confirmation. Ask your employee to put their resignation in writing, along with the date of resignation.

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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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San Antonio Tech Community to Host its First Startup Week

SiliconHills

For more than four years, San Antonio’s technology community has been percolating with excitement amidst a ground swell of support bubbling up to create a vibrant startup industry. First, Geekdom set up operations in downtown San Antonio at the Weston Centre and then moved to its own building, the Rand on Houston St. And now, […] The post San Antonio Tech Community to Host its First Startup Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Entrepreneurs, it’s ok to copy

Start Up Blog

There’s a tension in our connected world about being the originator. Apparently those who invented it first always win. It is said that the best entrepreneurs are those who change things. It turns out though, those that win reinterpret that which is already here. Here are a few examples of things that weren’t invented by who you think: Some break dancing way before it ever appeared in the Bronx.

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Why on line prices can mislead

Start Up Blog

On line markets where people sell peer to peer – think eBay sellers, or used cars on line – can trick our perception of the price of things. Here’s why: This is the advertised price, not the price it sells for. When we compare similar items on line, we are more likely to see the price of things that haven’t sold yet. The price people actually buy at, is often not advertised long enough for comparisons.