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4 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Make The Most Of The Leap Year

YoungUpstarts

by Gyawu Mahama, Social Media and Marketing Manager at Hiscox Small Business Insurance. What would you do with an extra 24 hours? The possibilities are endless. Fortunately, there’s no need to wonder because every four years an extra day arrives on our calendars with a leap day – February 29 th. Technically speaking, the leap day is just an additional day added to the calendar year to keep it synchronized with the astronomical year.

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No One Gets Out Of This Alive

Feld Thoughts

My mother-in-law (Amy’s mom) passed away last Sunday. The funeral was in Hotchkiss, Colorado yesterday. At lunch with her extended family, someone said something that stuck with me. “No one gets out of this alive.” I went looking for the source this morning and couldn’t find one. Amy thought it was Woody Allen, a Google search turned up Jim Morrison (due to the name of his book), Robert Heinlein was cited as saying something similar, but in the end I decided it didn’

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4 Tips And Tricks For Creating The Optimal Brand Experience At Your Next Corporate Event

YoungUpstarts

Imagine that you have run your business event and the industry buzz is all about the spectacular event that you hosted. There are flurries of whispers endorsing your business’s brand, products and services. Prospective clients then start lining themselves up in your sales pipeline to become your dedicated client. You have more than you can handle and the future path seems paved with gold.

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The “I Know This Already” Trap

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Have you ever started studying a course, or reading a blog post, or listening to an audio or webinar and your immediate reaction is… …I know this already. Yes, me too. This is actually a critical mistake. The biggest reason people fail at achieving something they want is believing they. The post The “I Know This Already” Trap appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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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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Why OzTam’s Aust TV ratings are still way behind the times

Start Up Blog

The TV industry in Australia recently claimed its ratings measurements have now ‘caught up with the times’ – as they now include catch up TV. Here’s a question for them: Do the ratings include Youtube views? It’s pretty clear now that TV is not the aggregation of the formal channels. There is no such thing as TV, there is only this: All audio visual content streamed to eyeballs = TV.

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Making Time

Austin Startup

The other night I worked late at the office — it wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last — sometimes I’m the last one out the door… Continue reading on Medium ».

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Building a Culture at Techstars

Austin Startup

As many of you know, Casabots is spending three months at the Techstars Accelerator at Austin. People often talk about how the Techstars… Continue reading on Medium ».

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Why being better is not enough

Start Up Blog

We have to make it more than just ‘better’ It’s got to be worth the hassle of changing over. The previous sentence really matters when we launch anything. That’s the bit that provides the real context to a startup. What level of friction do our customers have to endure to engage us instead? We might be lucky enough that they can simply choose us at a shelf instead.

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Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #028

Austin Startup

Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State View this email in your browser Continue reading on Medium ».

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9 Practices Make You A More Effective Communicator

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business professional and entrepreneur believes they are good communicators, but how do they know? It’s really the perception of the recipients that counts, and poor communicators are almost always poor listeners, so they don’t hear the shortcomings. Warren Buffet once told a class of business students that better communication could boost their value by fifty percent.

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Mike Maples explains the Thunder Lizard

Austin Startup

It’s easier than you think to be “non-consensus and right” Continue reading on Medium ».

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Austin Startup Twitter Digest for February 29

Austin Startup

Curated by Joshua Baer and edited by Luke Brown Continue reading on Medium ».