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5 Key Factors Of Personal Resilience Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

You can’t survive as an entrepreneur without resilience, because you are going to fail at least once, maybe multiple times. That’s the nature of trying something that’s never been done before. Resilience means not giving up, and being energized by what you have learned. As Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work.

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Three Strategies To Get Your Etsy Store Noticed

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are just looking to make a little extra money on the side, or you are trying to make selling your products on Etsy a full-time venture, without effective internet marketing, it can be difficult to get your products noticed. While there are many people on the internet looking for unique and beautiful products, there is also a multitude of people trying to sell their goods.

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If your VC meeting feels like it went well, it really didn’t.

Hippoland

“So how do you think your meeting went?” “Oh, it went really well!” This is a typical conversation I’ll have with portfolio founder about his/her meeting with another seed venture capitalist (VC). One thing I’ve noticed in the short time that I’ve been doing this job is that conversations with VCs that feel like they’re going well typically are not.

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Reflecting on July 2016 from Adelaide

Feld Thoughts

I’m sitting in a hotel room on the other side of the planet from where I’m usually hanging out. I just got back from a super run (4.5 miles in 45 minutes – nothing like sea level and flat to speed things up), am drinking some Mount Franklin bottled water , and reflecting on what was an intense month. While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

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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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You’ll never believe what these guys are really selling!

Start Up Blog

The other day I was in the airport where a new startup was sampling it’s an app to jump the coffee queue. I’m always stoked to see people having a go at a new business and got them to give me their pitch. It’s always good for entrepreneurs to practice unprepared. Then I realised I got a coffee but didn’t use their service. And here’s why: Part of wait I’m buying is the wait.

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In What Contexts Should Messaging Be The UI?

Austin Startup

Note: this post was originally featured on TechCrunch. Also, I advise Well, which is mentioned in this post. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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More Words of Wisdom from Mark Cuban

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Mark Cuban , superstar entrepreneur and investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and star of the television series “ Shark Tank.”.

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Some Career Reflection & Product Mgmt Advice

Hunter Walker

Thanks to the folks at Mixpanel’s blog for two nice posts summarizing a conversation we had earlier this summer. Part 1: The Hustle.

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Your Customers will Save You

Austin Startup

This is the third article in a series on creating consistent growth over a long period of time. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Some Career Reflection & Product Mgmt Advice

Hunter Walker

Thanks to the folks at Mixpanel’s blog for two nice posts summarizing a conversation we had earlier this summer. Part 1: The Hustle.

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#SXSW2017 Registration Opens Today!

Austin Startup

August 1, 2017: Registration opens for SXSW 2017! Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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