Wed.Jan 01, 2014

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The 11 Steps To Firing An Employee

Mike Michalowicz

'Being a business leader is not all roses and gumdrops (I suspect you already knew that). You will be required to fire someone at some point. Perhaps it is based upon the employee’s poor performance, or deviant activity, or maybe it is due to struggling times. Regardless of the circumstances, you better know how to fire someone before you just blindly do it.

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Go With The Flow – Happy New Year 2014

entrepreMusings

'¡Feliz Año Nuevo 2014! Another year has passed and boy/girl what an entrepreneurial year it has been! I’ve been trying to figure out how to fix the spam (stupidity) hack that someone has done to my email feed, but after checking feedburner, feedblitz, WordPress, and staring into space, a solution/fix hasn’t surfaced. Thank you to all of you who replied to my email feed noticing the insertion of random, annoying spam ads.

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Baby Boomer Retirement: Or Should I Start My Own Business?

YoungUpstarts

'Many of us spend a great deal of time worrying about money, and rightfully so. Have you noticed Americans are living longer than ever before? Financial planning for baby boomers has taken the spotlight, and as times become leaner, retirement issues have gained a new urgency. Is it possible to convert a nest egg into a monthly stream of income that will last forever?

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Do More By Doing Less More Deeply

Feld Thoughts

'I’m glad it’s 2014. Last year was a difficult one for me as I hit a wall of depression that completely surprised me. I was over it by mid year and, while the second half of the year was better, I still struggled with figuring a bunch of stuff out about what I cared about as I turned 48 years old. I stopped doing a few things last year. I stopped traveling for business.

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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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5 ways to build company culture with a virtual team

The Next Web

'John Stelmach is the President and CFO of Contentverse , a virtual document management system used by parts of the US Government and small to large businesses all over the world. For every desk-bound cubicle-dweller, the dream is to work from home. No physical demands. No need to look over your shoulder. No need for pants. The glorious green grass of the work-from-home employee is a goal for many successful people (and not-so-successful people) and a great way to hire the best talent without h

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One of my investors wants me to host a session where all the investors can meet and talk to each other. Is this a normal request?

Gust

'There’s nothing inherently wrong with your investors meeting each other, and it’s actually usually a pretty good thing. That said, it’s a bit unusual coming from the F&F side rather than the professional investor side. So I’d just be a bit cautious in trying to understand why your friend is pushing for this. Could it be that s/he just want to hang out with the “high profile” types?

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Resolve to Be

This is going to be BIG.

'Last night, at a New Years Eve party, I asked a few people if they had any resolutions for 2014. It was a mix of the usual--get more sleep, wake up early, eat better, go to the gym, get something accomplished at work, etc. No matter what people said, though--it all seemed kind of. well. fragile. When you resolve to do something, so many things could get in the way, not the least of which is a change of priorities.

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Fearless (Baseless) Predictions for 2014

Mucker Lab

'Market. VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.

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Sabbaticals

OnlyOnce

'I’ve written a few times over the years about our Sabbatical policy at Return Path , including this post and this post about my experience as CEO when one of my direct reports was on his sabbatical, and this post about my own sabbatical. People ask me this all the time, so I thought I’d write the policy out here. This is the language in our employee handbook about them: You have big dreams.

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Fearless (Baseless) Predictions for 2014

Mucker Lab

'Market. VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.

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Cost estimates & cave dwelling

Start Up Blog

'It seems that the #BBB podcast has been providing me with some clear blog ideas recently. Below is a comment I made in one of the podcasts in regard to the Super Awesome Micro Project – and well, projects in general costing us much more than we ever estimate. Now I’m starting to think our human delusions on the real time and cost of embarking on activity helps us grow and expand.

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[Review] The Myths Of Creativity

YoungUpstarts

'It’s funny how most people have certain ideas about creativity. If we only knew, it’s tragic how many of us have wrong ideas about how to find, cultivate and assert creativity in their lives, businesses or organizations. Here’s an example: how many times have we been called by a superior, put into a room together and ordered to brainstorm solutions to a particular problem?