Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 11, 2014
'In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 11, 2014
'By Ben Carpenter, author of “ The Bigs: The Secrets Nobody Tells Students and Young Professionals About How to Find a Great Job, Do a Great Job, Be a Leader, Start a Business, Stay Out of Trouble, and Live A Happy Life “. Yet again, you’ve been passed over for a promotion. As you throw a pity party for one in your drab cubicle, you can’t help but wonder why.
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The Next Web
JUNE 11, 2014
'Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. He is the co-founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. There is no other place like Silicon Valley, the tech Mecca of access to great talent, capital and countless prospective clients. For some founders, moving to the Valley is the only option to succeed.
deal architect
JUNE 11, 2014
'“No stock footage here” Remarked Plex CEO Jason Blessing about the video about various shop floors at customer sites which kicked off his user conference, PowerPlex yesterday. Actually he need not have used any footage at all. He had 900.
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
Rembrandt Communications
JUNE 11, 2014
'Did you know this can happen? You are swamped with work. There are looming deadlines, big meetings, employees, and phone calls to manage. Plus, you need to be home in time to attend a family softball game, sneak in a workout, take out the garbage, and prepare for your day tomorrow. There is a lot […].
The Next Web
JUNE 11, 2014
'Matt Cynamon is General Assembly’s Regional Director for the UK. Recruiting staff isn’t an easy process for any company, no matter how big or small. There’s a huge checklist of criteria that needs ticking off to ensure you hire the right person, with the relevant skills, for your organization. When speaking with founders and CEOs of tech startups, we’re never surprised when conversation circles back to the fact that hiring the right personnel is one of the toughest problems they face today.
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The Next Web
JUNE 11, 2014
'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the SumAll blog. Amazon is an e-commerce behemoth. The company is a valuable partner to many organizations, while also one of the fiercest competitors to many businesses due to its outright domination across many industries. According to Statista, Amazon’s online retail sales amounted to $67.9 billion, more than the next 9 largest e-retailers combined.
Growthink Blog
JUNE 11, 2014
'I took my six and eight-year old sons to the bank this weekend to open their first savings account. It felt like the right thing to do - they are at an age where they can understand the power and importance of money, albeit if mostly from the perspective of the things that can be bought with it. But the hope of course is that the habits of savings, of delaying gratification are ones that will stay with them for a lifetime.
The Equity Kicker
JUNE 11, 2014
'There were two Tweets about satellites in my newsfeed this morning. Usually there aren’t any. The first was an Economist article about nano-satellites describing how satellites are getting smaller and cheaper. Remember what that did to the computer market? We could well be on the brink of something similarly transformational in satellites. Nano-satellites weigh as little as a few kilos and are ‘thousands of times cheaper’ than their larger brethren, and launch costs are falli
Occam's Razor
JUNE 11, 2014
'We have more data than God wants anyone to have. We have more talent deployed than was ever true in history. We have more money being pumped into our ecosystem than ever before. We have our senior leadership involved like never before. Yet the end result of all that is so far away from where it should be. We definitely stink less in most cases. But with all this data, talent, money and leadership support, we are not knocking the ball out of the park.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 11, 2014
'Deep down it’s as if we humans know that the ultimate in intelligence is fallibility. It’s the imperfection that comes with emotion. Almost as though there is some kind of perfection in not knowing or acting dumb. This not knowing leads to curiosity and new paths, the fork in the road. The wrong path if taken, also has the potential to lead to serendipity and discovery.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 11, 2014
'It’s All About the Choices We Make written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Holiday. In mid July I’ll be in Portland presenting at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit. The title of my talk is “ Make Good Choices ” photo credit: citirecruitment via photopin cc.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 11, 2014
'There is a phrase which comes from a best selling book*. I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown. . The economics of this statement are simple. If we want to get paid for you knowledge & skill, then we ought travel to a location where we are the unknown quantity. *No, I haven’t read the book in question.
Jeff Hilimire
JUNE 11, 2014
'If it’s in my inbox, it gets done. It’s that realization that I came to about six months ago that made me fully embrace email rather than run from it. . I have tried almost every possible solution to managing the work day ( meaning communication, task management and general organization/priorities). For instance, I’ve tried: Omnifocus for task management, Evernote for note-taking and Dropbox for file storage.
Mike Michalowicz
JUNE 11, 2014
'As entrepreneurs, we ask ourselves questions all the time – how we can get more customers, how we can get more money, or even… how we can get more expenses to qualify as a legitimate tax deductions (come on, we’ve all done it). But when it comes to asking ourselves questions, we would be better served if we asked better questions. By doing so, we may just find that we are also given better solutions.
Up and Running
JUNE 11, 2014
'What’s your slice of the pie? It’s your company — and you’re the one who has the most at risk, financially and otherwise, if it fails. But you’re also in the unique position of setting the tone for what will hopefully be a thriving business. The question is, how do you decide what your own salary should be? We asked 12 founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council: How should startup founders calculate their own salaries versus those of staff members once the company st
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