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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub.

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Are You Ready Yet To Be An Entrepreneur Full-Time?

Startup Professionals Musings

There seems to be a big debate these days about the best approach to starting a new business. Some argue the only way to start is to drop everything and jump in with both feet, while others recommend an overlapped approach to the lifestyle, including not quitting your day job until you have revenue and a proven business model. I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

If I had spent less time on the business and more time with the family, we’d have been better off as a business and as a family. Family must come first in a family business. And if others don’t get your startup idea, it won’t matter how hard your team works to try to achieve it. Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show.

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Key Decisions That Could Make Your Business Soar

YoungUpstarts

Did you ever think that the future success of your business could be one right decision away? We think there are plenty of examples where making one right decision could catapult your business into the spotlight. In most cases, these decisions are completely overlooked by business owners. Either they fail to notice them, or they don’t realize the huge impact that decision had on their company.

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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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

If I had spent less time on the business and more time with the family, we’d have been better off as a business and as a family. Family must come first in a family business. And if others don’t get your startup idea, it won’t matter how hard your team works to try to achieve it. Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show.

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Say Yes to Success! How the New Millennial Leaders Embrace Mindfulness

YoungUpstarts

by Jon Mertz, author of “ Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders “ Millennials are about to take over the role of leader in the 21 st Century. The leaders of successful businesses and organizations will be Millennials who master and practice mindfulness in everything they do. In fact, mindfulness has become the most important unifying principle in the stability and sustainability of the future.

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The decline in venture is bottoming out

The Equity Kicker

Reading the tea leaves to predict where the venture capital market is heading seems to be everyone’s favourite hobby at the moment, and I’m no exception. Last week we had data from tech.eu which showed that venture investment in Europe is roughly flat quarter on quarter (excluding Spotify’s $1bn raise). Now we have Mattermark and PWC data on Q1 in the US and, surprisingly, the picture there is similar.

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7 Unusual Ways To Boost Your Confidence Before A Big Meeting

YFS Magazine

Write these strategies down and keep them handy—that way, whenever you need a jolt of confidence before a very important meeting, you need look no further than this list.

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The consequences of good & bad design

Start Up Blog

This is another fantastic presentation from Mike Monteiro on the importance of design and how it shapes our world lives. Here Mike takes us through how designers at Facebook have had massive consequences on peoples lives, especially when it comes to privacy settings. As entrepreneurs we are essentially systems designers. Our goal should be to should improve things for people – solve a problem through system design.

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Why I’m Roadtripping to 35 Cities in 40 Days

Austin Startup

Musicians tour to different cities to play for and meet their fans. Athletes travel the country playing in arenas and stadiums in various… Continue reading on Medium ».

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My talk track for the Success Summit keynote

Jeff Hilimire

A few weeks back I was honored to give the closing keynote speech at the Success Summit in Athens. Needless to say, I had a blast. I’ve gotten to where I prefer to speak without slides or notes, and so as I prepare for something like that it always helps me to have an outline of the topic points so that I can clearly remember how to get from one to the next.

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Building Trust for Online Referral Marketing Campaigns

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Trust for Online Referral Marketing Campaigns written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit:” Pixabay. Running an online business can be difficult and expensive; you have to worry about managing ad campaigns and monitoring your budget. If this is not done properly, your business could fail. Having a referral marketing program is a great way to reduce marketing costs and increase the profitability of your business.

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Content Marketing For E-Commerce: A Stepwise Guide For Beginners

Brandanew

This is a guest post by Olga Rabo from Berlin, Germany and Olga shares her tips on Content Marketing for E-Commerce players. Take a few notes, we know a ton of you people are interested in this topic! P.S. Don’t forget to sign in and register for our Content Marketing for Beginners eCourse. It’s OPEN! Over to Olga! Content Marketing For E-Commerce: A Stepwise Guide For Beginners.

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