Wed.Mar 04, 2015

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8 Steps For Entrepreneurs To Avoid The Ego Trap

Startup Professionals Musings

'In my years of mentoring entrepreneurs, a problem I have seen too often is low self-esteem, and over-compensating through arrogance and ego. These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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6 Ways OKRs Can Help Your Startup Achieve World Domination

YoungUpstarts

'By Kris Duggan, CEO of BetterWorks. It’s no secret that setting goals is critical to achieving any kind of success, and making sure they’re realistic and measurable is vital to maintaining momentum and motivation, especially in the startup game. After all, dangling a carrot is only effective if at some point you actually get the satisfaction of enjoying the carrot.

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Founder Leadership Models

Seeing Both Sides

'There are a number of founder leadership models that can work well as a startup evolves. I have lived a few as an entrepreneur and worked with many as a board member. Getting the founder model right is critical because the founder is the soul of a company. If you can navigate a leadership model that keeps the founder involved and engaged in the business as it scales, it meaningfully improves your odds that startup magic will happen.

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VC Ground Game

Genuine VC

'Conventional wisdom says that the best way to meet with a venture capitalist is to get a warm introduction. (While it’s a good rule of thumb, it’s not entirely true, which I’ve blogged about previously.) However, there’s another way that I’ve seen entrepreneurs use mutual connections that’s even more impactful than a warm introduction: a proactive inbound reference.

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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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How to Create a Productive Office Space

Up and Running

'A recent analysis from the World Green Building Council concluded that there is “overwhelming evidence” linking office design with productivity and wellness. But that’s nothing new, right? There has long been evidence to suggest that this is the case. We all know that our productivity levels drop when we feel uncomfortable—whether it’s the temperature, the atmosphere, or the noise levels, we need to be relaxed and comfortable to work at our best.

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9 tech investments entrepreneurs should consider in 2015

The Next Web

'There are so many new apps or pieces of software designed to make your business life easier – and more new technologies come out every year. It’s easy to get distracted and invest in a shiny widget or exciting new software when what you really need is an answer to a problem. With that thought, I looked for recommendations from business owners in YEC.

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Perks Help to Attract and Retain High Tech Talent

SiliconHills

'By Laura Lorek Reporter with Silicon Hills News Back in the highflying dot com days, the perks at high tech companies flowed as freely as the beer from onsite kegs on Fridays. Today, the competitive landscape for tech workers has meant another resurgence of perks to lure employees and keep them happy. And whiskey Fridays […] The post Perks Help to Attract and Retain High Tech Talent appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Big Data, Dashboards, and Exits

Growthink Blog

'The confluence of Big Data and high quality, low cost software-as- service ( SaaS ) programs and applications for virtually every business purpose has made the path clearer than ever as to what entrepreneurs and executives must do to build real equity value in their companies. It looks like this: First, utilizing great tools like John Warrilow’s Sellability Score or Dave Lavinsky''s Start at the End we define exactly what we seek for our key stakeholders: Customers, Employees, Partners, Vendors

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Fresh from the SPRING: Janisa

crowdSPRING Blog

'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for Janisa. Check out more great work on Janisa ’s profile page. Nicely done, Janisa, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE. Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB.

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The Magic of Abra

thebarefootvc

'One of the challenges of communicating the power of the blockchain over the past couple of years has been the absence of a “killer app”. An application on top of the infrastructure that renders the complex technology behind it invisible — and only shows a seamless, magical customer experience. Today Abra launched to the world. The company, run by veterans from the payments space, is building the world’s first global peer-to-peer teller network.

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Snow

Mike Michalowicz

'My friend, Barrett owns a lawn care business. To grow his company he hired a company to do outbound calls as the new season approached. As frustrating as it may feel to get sales calls at home, Barrett gets one new customer for every three hundred outbound calls. The numbers work. Barely. Then Barrett analyzed the data. Certain days he was able to get one new customer for every seventy five calls.

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Free Webinar – How to Make Marketing Darn Easy

Duct Tape Marketing

'Free Webinar – How to Make Marketing Darn Easy written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. If you’re one of those folks that says things like, “I’m no good at marketing” or “marketing is just so darn hard” – I’ve got good news – neither is actually true. It’s not that you’re not good at marketing, it’s that you are thinking about it all wrong.

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Advice for starting a blog – Keep it short and write about YOU.

Jeff Hilimire

'Last week, a friend (and fellow Match member) asked me what advice I’d give her as she’s considering creating a blog. I thought I’d share my response so that anyone else that is thinking about this can consider my comments. — First things first, you have to be able to keep it up once you start. Most people start blogging, write some epic first post or two, and then find it hard to keep going because the pressure of writing a great post is too much.

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How Word of Mouth Marketing Works

Duct Tape Marketing

'How Word of Mouth Marketing Works written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ted Wright. photo credit: Fizzy Purple Grape Soda via photopin (license). So, what exactly is Word of Mouth Marketing? I asked my guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast – Ted Wright, CEO of word of mouth marketing firm Fizz, speaker and author of Fizz: Harness the Power of Word of Mouth Marketing to Drive Br

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The Magic of Abra

thebarefootvc

One of the challenges of communicating the power of the blockchain over the past couple of years has been the absence of a “killer app”. An application on top of the infrastructure that renders the complex technology behind it invisible — and only shows a seamless, magical customer experience. Today Abra launched to the world. The company, run by veterans from the payments space, is building the world’s first global peer-to-peer teller network.

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Lead Like A Girl: 10 Ways To Put Your Feminine Strengths To Work At Work

YoungUpstarts

'by Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD, author of “ Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life “ For decades, women in business strove to become members of the boys’ club. We mimicked how men thought, communicated, and even dressed. But now, trying too hard to tap into our “masculine side” has gone the way of severely tailored 1980s power wear (complete with giant shoulder pads).