Sat.May 07, 2016

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8 Accountability Steps Lead To A Great Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. They skip the blame and complain game, and make things happen despite major obstacles. As a startup investor, I view any evidence of a victim mentality as the kiss of death.

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Mompreneur Confessions: 15 Reasons Why Being An Entrepreneur Makes Me A Great Mom

YFS Magazine

What is it really like to be a female business owner who is actively balancing the role of mom and the role of entrepreneur?

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Getting Your Series A Mojo Back

Both Sides of the Table

You Need to Find Your Mojo A Chip On Your Shoulder A few years ago I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. I think it’s an important read. A chip on one’s shoulder as in, “F**k the system, it’s broken and I want to fix it” is exactly the energy I look for in entrepreneurs. My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in

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‘What I Really Felt Was Relief’: A #Girlboss Journey From Job Loss To Entrepreneurship

YFS Magazine

I wish I could say pursuing my passion was all butterflies, rainbows, and puppies — it wasn’t. I didn’t have other doors opening left and right… I had to pound on them.

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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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The startup toothbrush test

Start Up Blog

When something is new, it is easy to get blinded by the newness and confuse whether people really need it. Here’s a simple test Larry Page employs – The toothbrush test. Will people use it as often as they use their toothbrush? And lets hope that’s twice a day! . When something is totally new, the biggest enemy is the inertia of doing nothing.

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7 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Exercise Without Realizing It

YFS Magazine

Here are seven simple ways you can add more movement to your day without going to the gym or even leaving your house.

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When White Men Panic, They Rally Behind Fake Manbeasts: Why Trump is Like Bigfoot

Hunter Walker

There’s a school of thought which suggests the rise of Bigfoot “sightings” in 1960s America was a reaction from largely white, rural, less educated white males to the growing urbanism, civil rights movement and their loss of power. Men rallied behind a “wild, powerful and masculine” figure, an Ape-Man or beast of unknown origin that inspired fear.

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In Their Shoes

Bryce Dot VC

Elizabeth Warren was on fire last night. She orchestrated a searing Tweetstorm aimed at Trump. As my timeline filled with retweets of gems like this , I decided to dig in and see what conversations her tweets were generating. Wading through the @ mentions of her various tweets, my stomach began to turn. The hate and vitriol hurled at her from cowards behind keyboards was truly disgusting.

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