Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

'CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial. A CEO should tell her staff everything! Right? Right?!? Of course not. It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. It is not. For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

'Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So what about you? How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? I’ve hit this before, but I still hear from too many unhappy entrepreneurs.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

'Ilya Pozin is an entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the founder of Open Me, a social greeting card company, and Ciplex , a digital marketing agency. He’s a columnist on entrepreneurship and marketing. As an entrepreneur or startup founder, being stretched thin comes with the territory. Juggling a busy schedule may be second nature for you, but are you really using your time wisely?

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

'Home service provider Gold Medal Service enters a new market by first determining the community they want to serve. Then they study all the demographic information they can find for that community. Which homes in the community are in the right income range? How far is the average commute for residents of those homes? Do these people travel by car, train or bus?

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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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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

'No, I am not referring to the scale that refers to growth of a company. The scale I am referring to is what that you use to measure something. Yesterday I was at the gym. I was at the end of my mini exercise routine on an exercise machine. A young boy started exercising on a similar equipment right next to me. His Dad setup the equipment for him and the boy was in a hurry to finish his exercise.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

'[View the story "Nonprofit Technology Summit at Rackspace " on Storify] The post A Storify Wrap-up of the Nonprofit Tech Summit at Rackspace appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

If you've been following my blog for any amount of time, you know my philosophy about customers.You can't get them early enough, have enough of them, or love them enough once you get them.However, like many beliefs, there are exceptions. Sometimes, you have to "fire your customer." The phrase "the customer is always right" was pioneered by a number retail merchants in the early twentieth century as both a way to increase customer service levels and a differentiator.But for entrepreneurs, always

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