Sat.Oct 11, 2014

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Do You Have The Commitment To Succeed In Business?

Startup Professionals Musings

'We’ve all heard the old joke “In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.” This quote epitomizes the true essence of commitment. We all know at least one small business owner who claims to committed, but seems to treat the business like a part-time hobby. They don’t put personal skin in the game, and are quick to give up when things are tough.

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How To Improve Customer Service In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

'Customer service is an area of your business that you definitely don’t want to ignore, whether you run a small business selling apparel such as the folks from FeminineRascal.com , or a bigger business selling vehicles like the Tilsun Group. After all, your customer service representatives are your customers’ point of contact with your company.

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A step-by-step guide to launching a product (for complete newbies)

The Next Web

'Jason SurfrApp is the founder of IWearYourShirt and author of Creativity For Sale. After Skyping with some college students, I wanted to share my process for launching a product or creative campaign. Whether it was launching IWearYourShirt, starting a non-profit, selling my last name, or various other campaigns/ideas, there’s been some semblance of a system I use that I wanted to share.

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What are the most common exits for Angel Investors?

Gust

'Here, in a completely unsourced, purely anecdotal and totally subjective answer with numbers pulled out of the air, is my guess: *original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

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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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How to take your startup global on a shoestring budget

The Next Web

'Alec Lynch is the founder and CEO of global crowdsourcing startup DesignCrowd. If you run a startup or online business (or have an idea for one), there’s a good chance the opportunity for your venture is a global one. However, conventional startup wisdom seems to be: start local, then go global. Focus on one market – probably your domestic market – first, get traction and think global later.

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Female Entrepreneurs Connect and Learn at Women@Austin

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News “Leave Your Superwomen Capes at the Door” That’s Jan Ryan’s only rule for Women@Austin events at Capital Factory. The meetings provide a receptive environment for female entrepreneurs to connect and learn from each other while enjoying wine and hors d’oeuvres. “Authenticity is what makes the magic for […] The post Female Entrepreneurs Connect and Learn at Women@Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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