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6 Tools To Assess Your Potential As An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many people, young and older, let their career and their lifestyle happen to them, rather than proactively making things happen based on their personal passions, skills, and interests. Others make decisions based on someone else’s interests, such as the father who wants his son to take over the family business, or dreams openly of having a doctor in the family.

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SAP Nation 2.0: Customer coping strategies

deal architect

As with previous books, I have been excerpting 10% of the contents. You can buy the book at several stores (online in paperback at CreateSpace and ebook at Amazon). 2.0 looks at the prospects of S/4HANA which SAP launched in.

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Love Conquers All, Especially In Marketing Communications

YoungUpstarts

by Michele Pariza Wacek, author of “ Love-Based Copywriting: How to Write Copy that Attracts, Inspires and Invites Your Ideal Prospects to Become Ideal Clients “ It’s love, not money, that makes the world go ‘round. Pain is a part of life but suffering is optional. Traditional copywriting is fear-based; it agitates pain and turns it into suffering.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. I’m psyched to be joining the board of a company co-founded and run by Mike Praeger, a friend of mine for over 20 years. It was big news in Charlotte, North Carolina where AvidXchange announced the groundbreaking on a new headquarters complex in the N.C.

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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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SXSW 2015 Had an Economic Impact on Austin of $317 Million

SiliconHills

Reports on the death of South by Southwest have been greatly exaggerated to paraphrase Mark Twain. In fact, SXSW has never been doing better. In 2015, the music, interactive and film festival and its SXSWEdu and SXSWEco events had an economic impact on Austin of $317.2 million, according to a new report by Greyhill Advisors. […] The post SXSW 2015 Had an Economic Impact on Austin of $317 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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“We’re Not Going to Get a Chance to Get People to Remember Much About Us – No Company Is” (via Steve Jobs)

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 your venture, iterating on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Every Once in a While, Shake Up Your Calendar

Hunter Walker

If your calendar accurately reflects how you spend your time then it’s a source of truth like no other. More than your words and more than your intentions, what you actually do each day is the ultimate statement of your priorities and values. Twice annually I make wholesale changes to how I approach scheduling my hours, days and weeks. It’s usually a combination of correcting bad habits or observations about mismatches between my goals and my effort.

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Get Set for the Fifth Annual Austin Startup Week

SiliconHills

Austin Startup Week is a great time to socialize and network with people in the Austin startup community and to learn something new. This is the fifth annual five day event. It kicks off Monday, Oct. 5th and runs through Friday, Oct. 9th. It started in 2011, the same week Silicon Hills News launched and […] The post Get Set for the Fifth Annual Austin Startup Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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