Sat.Jan 31, 2015

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Startups Without Business Plans Are Expensive Hobbies

Startup Professionals Musings

'If you sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably already know how to build a business, and even conservative investors won’t worry about the quality of your next business plan. But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money.

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A day of in a life of product manager

The Next Web

'Mike Fishbein does content marketing at Alpha UX. You can connect with him @mfishbein or via his personal site, mfishbein.com. An article ion The Next Web captured the essence of product management so well that it left one commenter exclaiming, “Finally I can point people to an article when they ask me what exactly I do!” I know how that reader feels.

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Will Having a Positive Attitude Really Help Me Be More Successful in Business?

Up and Running

'Many scholars and researchers have studied the benefits of having a positive attitude. Athletes focus on winning as well as skill development. Optimism leads to more creative thinking and the energy to accomplish goals. A positive attitude reduces stress and leads to better health according to the Mayo Clinic. Operating a business successfully requires energy, health and creativity as well as many other skills and resources so a positive attitude is an asset that can benefit any business. &

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Smashing down your open door policy at work

The Next Web

'David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15Five blog. In some companies, approaching the executive is like walking up to the Wizard of Oz, his gigantic floating head and flaming pillars striking fear into those who dare to disturb him. With an open door policy, the onus is on the employee, who will probably be intimidated and unlikely to accept the offer to step past the threshold.

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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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Successful startups say “no”

Hunter Walker

'Originally posted on Venture Generated Content : “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett. We’ve been spending the past few weeks at Homebrew helping several of our portfolio companies work through their planning for 2015. It’s no surprise that during these conversations incredible ideas for new products and features, partnerships, revenue streams, technologies, etc., emerge.

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Which book should I read next?

Jeff Hilimire

'I want to read more in 2015 , and I’ll give myself a B- so far. I basically spent January finishing off a few books that I had slacked off on over the years, and I’m just about finished with the last one: Creativity, Inc. It’s just about time for me to pick the next one. Below are books that I have on my list to read (which I store in Evernote with the tag “books”), and I’m curious if anyone has a strong recommendation for one of these: The War of Art.

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Improv, skiing, writing, and starting before you’re ready

The Startup Toolkit

'“It’s like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can do the whole drive like that.” That’s an E.L.Doctorow quote about writing a book, but it applies equally well to startups. We’ve got to resist the temptation to gather all the answers up front. But it can be scary. I think of it like an improv actor or an off-slope skier.

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Here’s What The @NYTimes Should Teach Its Writers About Social Media

Both Sides of the Table

'Not everybody likes the NY Times. I happen to be a long-time fan and paid subscriber. I mostly read the op eds and have for years. I count amongst my favorite people to read from the left & the right as David Brooks, Thomas Friedman & Paul Krugman (and was a big fan of the late William Saffire). I also read almost every Maureen Dowd post even though I don’t always agree with her politics or viewpoints I find it interesting to get other perspectives than my own.