Sun.Jul 06, 2014

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Slow Cooked

deal architect

'Those who read my books know they tend to be case study heavy and dense with forward looking details – that’s the nature of innovation genre writing. My book on SAP is similar – heavy with customer dialog, but very.

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How To Enhance Innate Business Leadership Abilities

Startup Professionals Musings

'Entrepreneurship is all about leading – leading customers to a new product or service, leading a startup team to peak performance, and leading a new business to the market opportunity, while providing maximum return to stakeholders. Most entrepreneurs feel they have innate leadership talents, but struggle with how to nurture these abilities and measure their effectiveness.

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Think Hard Before Jumping From Corporate To Startup

Gust

'Photo via Flickr by Eric Chan. I talk to many people who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder who dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. I hasten to tell them that every job move is fraught with risk, but the move from employee to entrepreneur is on the high end of the risk curve. It’s a big jump, especially in today’s economy, so do your homework first on this one.

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Curing CEO Disease: Six Tips For Getting Great Feedback

YoungUpstarts

'by Dan Quiggle, author of “ Lead Like Reagan: Strategies to Motivate, Communicate, and Inspire ” and the founder of The Quiggle Group. Leaders in all areas of the business world suffer from “CEO Disease,” meaning they’re at risk for getting vague, reassuring, less-than-honest feedback from their employees. If you’re one of them, the bad news is you’re probably not making the best decisions for your company.

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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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3 things you can change to go from startup to grown up

The Next Web

'Callum Laing is the CEO of Entrevo Asia and the founder of Fitness-Buffet, an employee fitness business in 11 countries. There are few things in life as rewarding as creating a business out of nothing. If you have any love of enterprise, it is hard not to be enamored with the excitement around tech startups. It would be nice to see a few more startups stick around, so here are my three suggestions for how you can significantly improve your chances of success.

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Small Business and Problem-solving: Take a Walk

crowdSPRING Blog

'Sometimes I wake up in the night thinking about my company. On occasion it can be difficult to get back to sleep, especially when some recently wrestled-with and unresolved issue is nagging at me. My mind gets stuck on a problem or a question and sleep can be elusive from that point forward. I think this is a fairly common phenomenon for small business owners and many have told me they experience the same problem.

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Startups That Help Small Businesses

Hunter Walker

'New York Times gives some love to startups helping small businesses leverage tech. We’re into this area pretty substantially via our Bottom Up Economy thesis at Homebrew (how tech can help the middle and longtail). Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the article: Simplifying the nuts and bolts of selling can free up small business owners to focus on expanding their business or communicating with their customers, he said.

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Marketing genius, social pitching & worst case scenarios

Start Up Blog

'Yes, I have been writing, just in other places. So here’s 3 recent articles I’ve put out there which could have been put here: Why Elon Musk has delivered a genius level marketing play by opening up the Tesla patents. The less often sited social side of pitching your startup or idea. What’s the worst case scenario as a failed entrepreneur?

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “You Have a Choice”

Scott Edward Walker

'Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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The Power of Being Human in Business Development

Feld Thoughts

'I’ve had some really crummy experiences with business and corporate development people in the past year. There’s been a strange change in ethos, where suddenly people have forgotten that when they do deals, they are doing deals with other people, not with a company. I learned this in 1993 when my first company was acquired by Len Fassler and Jerry Poch, two of the absolute master deal makers I’ve ever worked with.

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Investing in Grand Cru

Jason Ball

'Following my previous posts on why I decided to make any given investment, I thought I’d share briefly why I decided to make an investment into the gaming space – an area where many investors fear to tread. The first game from Grand Cru, Supernauts , has been in further development for 1 year since we invested. Without the product in the market, this post was largely meaningless.