Sun.Feb 21, 2016

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Should. Must. And Our Lives: Five Questions with Author, Designer Elle Luna

Hunter Walker

Elle Luna and I met several years ago via overlapping friend circles. The last meal we shared, several years ago, she departed accepting a ride in a pedicab piloted by a man in a spiderman costume. That kinda summarizes how wonderful her journey of the past several years have been. Hunter Walk: Your book, The Crossroads of Should and Must , has really reverberated with the creative community.

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Oracles Confident Cloud

deal architect

I have analyzed Oracle for over two decades – at PwC, at Gartner, and now at Deal Architect. I have written before Oracle does not get enough respect – I would say it has to work twice as hard as.

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Don’t Settle For Business As Usual

YoungUpstarts

By Randy Ross, author of “ Remarkable!: Maximizing Results through Value Creation “ Is your organization doing business as usual? Business as usual is conventional, operating within the established norms. It’s predictable, delivering the expected. It’s comfortable, maintaining the status quo. It’s… safe! There are millions of organizations doing business as usual.

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The Winter of Discontent

deal architect

Over the last few weeks I have had a feeling of déjà vu. It’s a feeling I last had when I was writing SAP Nation a year and a half ago. As I wrote in the book “I reached out.

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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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Monthly investor reports: how bad news can make you look awesome

Hippoland

As an investor, I’ve noticed that our best-performing companies tend to send investor reports frequently while the ones that are flailing or flatlined never do unless reminded. As an entrepreneur, I know that it can be tough to convey bad news to your investors, because you don’t want them to think less of you or be angry / disappointed. Every time I had to write bad news to my investors when I was running LaunchBit, I would cringe a little bit before hitting the send button.

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More Thoughts on Sources of Insecurities

Feld Thoughts

I received plenty of interesting feedback on my post titled Sources of Insecurities. A good friend and one of our investors, Jamey Sperans, even put together a slide trying to process the concept. If you were interested in the original post, I expect it’ll be fun to ponder Jamey’s slide on a Sunday morning. Sperans View on Feld’s Post about Sources of Insecurities from Brad Feld.

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Your Company Culture: You Can Drive It.or You Can Just Let It Happen!

Small Business Force

Having "parachuted into" a number of ugly turnaround situations, I've seen small company culture, from a lot of perspectives, often very bad. But all had one commonality.they never really paid much attention to culture. I've also built companies that from the get-go reflected and were driven by what I believed and my own value system about how employees, customers and suppliers should be treated.