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10 Attributes of That Rare Ideal Manager at Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Everyone can recognize a great manager a mile away, so why is it so hard to find one? We all remember a few that are “legends in their own mind”, but that doesn’t do it. In fact, the clue here is that the view in your mind is the only one that matters, rather than the other way around. Almost every one of us in business can remember that one special manager in their career who exemplifies the norm, who commanded our respect, and treated us like a friend, even in the toughest of personal or busin

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Dr.Liz Alexander on Co-Authorship

Life Beyond Code

My friend Dr.Liz Alexander recently co-authored a book called Thought Leadership Tweet. I am a big fan of thought leadership and also the executive editor of THINKaha (publisher of the book) so I will be doubly-biased when I say that the new book is fantastic. Please check it out. What was also fascinating was that Liz co-authored this book with Craig Badings from another part of the world – Australia.

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Why Every Entrepreneur Needs to Blog

This is going to be BIG.

Ok, it's still resolution time, right? Time to get cracking on some new initiatives in 2013. and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company. Forget the fact that you can't write or it takes a long time. These are things that go away over time. First off, many of the widely read tech bloggers aren't the best writers either.

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Small Business and Startups: 5 Threats to Your Online Security

crowdSPRING Blog

How often do we read about online security breaches, loss of data, or massive credit card theft? While these events typically involve larger companies or even governments, all businesses are vulnerable to fraud, theft, or other forms of malice or just plain mischief. Most small businesses assume that it is only larger companies are at risk for security breaches. but over the last several years, small businesses are increasingly the target of hackers and fraudsters.

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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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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog A geeky Hanukkah! Next-gen telepresence robots The Pope blesses – and challenges – Twitter The most claustrophobic lab in the world Making enterprise software more intuitive Technology in the new fast lanes CIO at the San.

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Startups.Co Launches Entrepreneur Fundraising Resource, Funding 101

YoungUpstarts

New startup entrepreneurs who are looking to raise capital may well take a look at Funding 101 , a free educational resource on fundraising launched by business investor network Startups.Co. Developed by veteran entrepreneur Wil Schroter (who’ve launched nine Internet companies to date and currently the CEO and co-founder of Fundable.com ), Funding 101 serves as a tool to help startups navigate the challenges of startup funding- from initial business development and strategy, to preparing

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Ten resolutions you should make to be more successful in 2013 #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

Thanks for the suggestion to blindpost this by this guy and this guy. I figure if two people independently suggest I blindpost something, I better do it. Typically with a blindpost, I copy the title verbatim from another article and, without reading that article, I write it from my perspective. Here are some examples. This one was actually titled, “ Ten Resolutions the most Successful People Make and Then Keep “, but I shortened it to: Ten resolutions you should make to be more suc

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Imagine That. It’s 2013!

entrepreMusings

Happy New Year! From what I’ve observed at this point in my life, it seems to me that there really is no telling what awaits around the corner with regards to jobs, kids, health, love, or whatever, so I’ve given up on resolutions for the time being. We are living in interesting times, and I have been fortunate/unfortunate enough to experience many things…some of my choosing and most not of my choosing.

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7 Startup High Risk Factors That Scare Investors

Gust

Image via Flickr by artemuestra. We all know that every startup is risky. No risk means no reward. Yet every investor has his own “rules of thumb” on what makes a specific startup too high a risk for his investment taste. You need to know these guidelines to set your expectations on funding. Of course, if you intend to fund the business yourself, or have a rich uncle, external investment funding concerns are not a problem.

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3 useful tips to help your early stage startup acquire paying enterprise customers

The Next Web

A lot of noise is being made lately about the trend that venture money is flowing away from consumer startups and flowing into enterprise startups. As a B2B company, I am personally excited about this, but I am here to tell my fellow early-stage (seed-funded or unfunded) enterprise startup entrepreneurs that acquiring enterprise customers is no joke.