Fri.Dec 26, 2014

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Driving Your Startup With Fear Has Bad Consequences

Startup Professionals Musings

'Trying to be a business leader by instilling fear in your employees and partners is never a good approach, but it is particularly devastating in a startup. Yet I see this approach used all too often by new entrepreneurs, most of whom are not natural tyrants, but who are fighting to mask their own internal fears and insecurities about starting a business.

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SAP Nation Excerpts: Chapter 2 The SAP Pivot

deal architect

'Amazon has SAP Nation on the Kindle and in softcover. Over the next few weeks the book will be available in hardback and other eBook formats. As I have done with my other books, I plan to excerpt here about.

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The Great Boxing Day Data Cleanse of 2014

Feld Thoughts

'I just spent around an hour shrinking my Facebook friends list from 1,500+ to 535. I ignored another 2,000 friend requests. I made my entire Facebook feed from the beginning of time private, which eliminated 33,000+ followers (dear Facebook followers – you really meant to follow me on Twitter , that’s where all the public fun is.) I turned off all my email notifications.

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Marketing Through Your Customers

Mike Michalowicz

'We all know an effective marketing campaign can be the key that unlocks the door to a world of new customers. The trouble is that consumers are buried under a sea of images and attempts to separate them from their money. What’s ideal is word of mouth – the better-than-anything-you-could-pay-for form of spreading the word about companies and products worth supporting.

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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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Tax Season Is Coming: 5 Ways To Get Your Small Business Ready

Early Growth Financial Services

'In the few remaining weeks of 2014, one of the best moves you can make is to set aside time to plan for tax season. Here’s what you should do now to get ready. Organize your records. Start sorting through your documents. Ideally, you have an expense management system and have been tracking your receipts all year long. If that’s not the case, start getting everything together now while you have time to either locate receipts or order duplicates of any that are missing.

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Happy Boxing Day – 2014

entrepreMusings

'I wonder why we don’t celebrate Boxing Day (aka St. Stephen’s Day ) here in the US? It seems like a mighty fine holiday to me! The weeks leading up to the holidays seemed extra busy this year, so I had to take “holiday card” off the list of things to do this year. In lieu of a festive blog post, here are some interesting reads: Women at Work: A Guide for Men - The Wall Street Journal – This is a very good article about women in business!

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Twitter Link Roundup #249 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'One Direction without autotune. ‘Nuf said. And now, perfectly in tune and in the proper key, it’s time for our weekly roundup! Great links and articles we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ). We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff!