Sat.Dec 13, 2014

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10 Actions That Highlight You As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

'People who have been followers too long as an employee don’t realize how hard it is to be a leader. Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Driving these actions are some basic principles that entrepreneurial leaders, such as Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Evernote CEO Phil Libin, seem to have learned early.

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How fitness apps and wearables can impact your performance at work

The Next Web

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, speaker and freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the SumAll blog. In a pair of recent studies, the CDC called attention to two alarming trends. Americans are not getting nearly enough exercise and a majority fall many hours short of the recommended amount of sleep. Not only is this bad for our health, it harms our productivity as well.

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Words of Wisdom from Bill Gurley

Scott Edward Walker

'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Every week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Bill Gurley , a general partner at Benchmark Capital and a very smart investor. In this interesting interview from a few years back (courtesy of GigaOm ), Bill shares some solid nuggets about the role of venture capital and how entrepreneurs should be think

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5 common mistakes guaranteed to screw up your PR strategy

The Next Web

'Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Publicize. He is happy to connect on LinkedIn here. Successful people know how to learn from their own mistakes. Really successful people know how to learn from the mistakes of others. Here are some of the most common PR blunders that you can learn to avoid in the first place. 1. Taking the press for granted PR requires a concerted effort.

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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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Ridesharing Under Heavy Regulation in San Antonio

SiliconHills

'Ridesharing is in the hotseat in San Antonio. Last Thursday, the San Antonio City Council passed changes to its code to allow services like Lyft and Uber to operate legally in the city. But Uber and Lyft call the city’s regulations too costly and cumbersome. Uber reported it might leave the city altogether if the […] The post Ridesharing Under Heavy Regulation in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A scaling playbook for entrepreneurs: Hiring for growth

The Next Web

'Henry Kim is the president and co-founder at Symphony Commerce. Generally speaking, entrepreneurs are great at creating something from nothing. We are ideas people, and good at getting them off the ground through laser focus on product concept and development as well as early cultivation of a network of investors, customers and employees. But that’s just square one – how do entrepreneurs grow a company from there?

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