Mon.Oct 24, 2016

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company.

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Every Entrepreneur Wins With A Goal-Oriented Mindset

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving, and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-priced provider of their product. Yet other entrepreneurs will talk for hours about all their ideas, and how they intend to change the world, but I don’t hear any specific goals or milestones. Many people are very hesitant to set specific goals, due to lack of self-confidence or whatever.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company.

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5 Reasons Your Business Idea Isn’t As Good As You Think It Is

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. The increasing ubiquity of the Internet and social media has opened the doors for all sorts of businesses that wouldn’t have been possible even ten years ago, but they have also created new challenges for entrepreneurs to overcome. If you find that you are getting mostly No answers when you pitch your business idea, see if you can get some honest feedback from those who have been successful.

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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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Building a Lifestyle Business in a Startup World

Up and Running

This certainly feels like the age of the startup founder. The cheerleading tech press and massive valuation rounds have built a mystique around startup culture. It seems like exciting new companies are popping up daily, led by founders just a few years out of college (or never having finished school). The allure of this narrative is obvious: the smartest kids in the room get to hire their friends and build a company with other people’s money.

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You Sell You: How To DIY Your Early PR Presence

YoungUpstarts

by Elliot Tomaeno, founder of ASTRSK. When building your startup, you probably took a DIY approach to just about everything. You taught yourself how to fundraise , you learned how to identify an ideal home base , and you spent countless hours figuring out how to build your personal brand. You probably feel pretty darn proud of yourself. I don’t blame you.

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How To Successfully Secure Contracts With The Help Of Bid Writing

YoungUpstarts

As a business owner, you understand the importance of being able to attract clientele. Landing contracts can be essential to growing your list of customers and ensuring the development of your business. Whether your business provides services or products for government entities, private organisations or other businesses, the benefits that come with securing and completing a contract, such as a steady flux of capital, a favourable reputation in your industry, professional references and future bu

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8 Online Tools Every Business Owner Needs To Hire And Grow Their Team

YFS Magazine

The eight tools on this list can simplify the hiring process considerably.

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Monday Morning Motivation – Build for the Long Term [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start your week off on the right foot.

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More Words of Wisdom from Mark Zuckerberg

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video of a successful founder, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Mark Zuckerberg , co-founder of Facebook and a brilliant entrepreneur. In this solid, recent interview by Sam Altman of Y Combinator, Mark shares some words of wisdom for entrepreneurs and founders, including the following: “Start with the problem you’re trying to so

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Digital Attribution's Ladder of Awesomeness: Nine Critical Steps

Occam's Razor

Culture is a stronger determinant of success with data than anything else. Including data. [People + Process + Structure] > [Data + Technology]. It seems hard to believe. Yet, it is so fantastically true. At least for now. At least until AGI takes over. Why is this formula material? The first part of the equation, for better or for worse, improves in an evolutionary manner.

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Podcast 119: Unveiling the Brain with Roger Dooley

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Roger Dooley joins us again to talk about understanding the way our brains work in order to make the best decisions for your business. Welcome to Episode 119 of the Profit First Podcast! Our Guest. Roger Dooley is a speaker and author of Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing , the popular blog Neuromarketing , and Brainy Marketing at Forbes.

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Perseverance pays off

Spencer Fry

Perseverance is more important today than ever before. It’s always been important, but nowadays I feel that everyone is giving up way too early on their ideas and dreams. Why aren’t more people sticking it out? Why are they fleeing at the first sign of trouble? People are looking for quick wins that give them the confidence to keep going and when they don’t get them, they give up and go on to something else.

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2016 Social Media Trends And Statistics That Were Crazy!

Brandanew

Social Media has become an essential part of everyone’s life, it is addictive! From business to personal communication it immerses us all. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or Pinterest have opened a new gateway to express and connect. However some social media trends and statistics have really been crazy! Here’s a look back at the year so far.