Sun.Jul 20, 2014

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When Are Business People Entitled To Be Entitled?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Where did this sense of entitlement in our business culture come from? I’ve written about this before, but I was reminded again a while back at a conference for startups when an entrepreneur started berating investors for not funding early-stage startups. It sounded to investors like me that they felt a funding entitlement for their startup idea. Of course, I’m sure entrepreneurs sense that many investors feel entitled to deals with no risk.

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[Review] Life Without Limits

YoungUpstarts

'Nick Vujicic is a man on a global mission. And boy is he creating waves wherever he goes. At the tender age of 31, Nick is a motivational guru, evangelist, and author of several bestselling books. A celebrated speaker, he gets invitations to speak from all over the world – Australia (Melbourne was his childhood home), Europe, US, China, India, Africa, and South East Asia (including Singapore ).

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Practice Entrepreneur Integrity As Seen By Others

Gust

'Image via Flickr by Zaneology. As an entrepreneur, your personal integrity is critical for getting and keeping the support of investors and team members, and your company’s integrity is critical for getting and keeping customers and vendors. But in a practical sense, what does that really mean? Most definitions of integrity include something like “the quality of being honest and morally upright.

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The 7 most deadly mistakes that smart marketers make

The Next Web

'Ritika Puri is a content marketer, freelance business writer, and media entrepreneur.This post originally appeared on the Evergage blog. Marketing is hard. For every ‘hit,’ you’ll likely experience 10 misses. The process of launching the perfect campaign is absolutely grueling and if you’re not careful — a huge waste of money. It’s almost as if failure is a right of passage.

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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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Summertime Logo Fun

crowdSPRING Blog

'Summertime, right? Business tends to slow, strategy meetings are put aside in favor of ling weekends and early-dismissal Fridays. Vacations crowd the schedule, choices have to be made about which music festivals to attend, the grill and that beautiful whole snapper await and, frankly, our focus gets a bit soft. Between the chilled cocktails and the (please pass the) guacamole we find it a bit hard to concentrate.

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Founders: It’s not the critic that counts… or is it?

The Next Web

'Callum Laing is the CEO of Entrevo Asia and the founder of Fitness-Buffet, an employee fitness business in 11 countries. Theodore Roosevelt once said ‘It’s not the critic that counts.’ It is part of a longer text which is worth a read for anyone who’s striving to do anything of merit in the world (included in full at the bottom). Some people say that Teddy wrote it as a ‘comments guideline’ for the interweb, but that could just be rumor.

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