SVPG

OCTOBER 12, 2013

'One of the things I like about a Lean Canvas is it helps to quickly highlight the key assumptions and major risks facing a startup or a significant new product in an existing business. This is a good thing. The idea is to tackle the biggest risks first. That''s the theory at least. However, the reason for this note is that in practice, I keep running into entrepreneurs and product leaders that are focused on secondary risks rather than the primary risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

'I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. What’s more disconcerting to me is that I can name a few that weren’t even offered, and more than a few students who graduate are ill-prepared for the real world! I won’t even try to cover here the ones you didn’t find for your personal life, like managing personal finances and credit.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 12, 2013

'This saying defines the essence of great customer service: Early is on time. On time is late. Late is unacceptable. Pin it above your desk or tattoo it to your chest if you must. Just never forget it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2013

'Weekend Favs October Twelve written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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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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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Becoming an entrepreneur is never easy. In fact, according to the SBA, with 25% of start-ups failing in their first year, 50% within the first five, it's not exactly for the "faint of heart." But beyond just survival is the issue of growing the business. And often, the entrepreneur, so bent on making it happen becomes consumed by the business. In short, instead of owning the business, the business owns them!

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