Sun.Mar 22, 2015

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Close Relationships At Work Bring Value And Risks

Startup Professionals Musings

'We all have to communicate and collaborate with other people at work, but most of us start out instinctively trying to maintain an emotional distance from others in the work environment. In fact, most employee training courses recommend the distance if the work relationship crosses management levels, and most management policies strictly forbid fraternizing with the team.

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CEO Shadowing

Feld Thoughts

'Following is a guest post from Zack Rosen at Pantheon about his experience shadowing Jud Valeski, founder and then-CEO of Gnip for a day in 2012. Behind the stories of most first-time venture-backed CEOs building startups and attacking markets at breakneck speed, there is usually a tight network of mentors and peers showing them the ropes of company building.

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The Great Cross-Border Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

'By Dr. Karen Reddington, President of FedEx Express, South Pacific. One of the many consequences of the booming digitisation of our world is a quantum shift in the retail market from offline to online. In fact, the online retail market was projected to exceed US$1 trillion in key markets globally in 2014 by Forrester [1]. Growing armies of consumers are using increasingly powerful devices and flexible payment methods to not only shop online, but to do so from merchants beyond their home markets

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4/2/15: Colorado Product Management Meetup

Feld Thoughts

'If you are a technology product manager in Colorado, take a look at the new Colorado Product group. The first meetup is on 4/2/15 and features a talk from Adit Vaidya, Product Manager for Facebook Groups. The post 4/2/15: Colorado Product Management Meetup appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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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