Sat.Jan 21, 2017

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Share It’s always a special time when you take the “leap of faith” and start your own business. But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job.

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8 Success Drivers Define A Lifestyle Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Until the recession a few years ago, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. More recently, the desire for extra income has become the key driver in new startups, according to a 2015 study. It seems that more people are focused on money today.

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Dealing With The Pessimist In the Room.

Feld Thoughts

My wife Amy sent this HBR article – How to Handle the Pessimist on Your Team – to me. It’s almost a decade old but seems timeless. I’m an optimist. With rare exceptions (usually when I’m depressed), I can carry an optimistic view point about things (business, projects, humans, life, existence on this planet, my ability to some day go to a parallel universe) around in most of my interactions.

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5 Essential Apps To Manage Remote Teams

YFS Magazine

With these five amazing tools, your remote teams will begin to become stronger and more united in their shared goals.

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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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Local v. Out-of-State VCs

Austin Startup

Some things in life are certainties. The sun will rise tomorrow, you will be taxed for something… and startup ecosystem players across the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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20 Empowering Quotes For Women Building Empires

YFS Magazine

While you're building your fempire keep these wise words in mind.

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Weekend Favs January 21

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs January 21 written by John Jantsch read more at 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 to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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