Sat.Feb 06, 2016

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15 Entrepreneurs Reveal What Entrepreneurship Means to Them

Hearpreneur

Being an entrepreneur is a source of pride. It also evidences an individual with a huge amount of discipline and focus to be able to build a business a lot of times from just an idea. It is the ambition of an entrepreneur that built the most profitable and successful companies. The only issue is that the word entrepreneurship can often vary from person to person. #1 – Big Dreams.

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No, the cloud model is not dead

deal architect

The meltdown of stocks like LinkedIn, Tableau and Splunk is leading some people to say “cloud is the new dot.com”. To start with, the term dot.com brings painful memories. 2003 was by the far the worst financial year for our.

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Why Uber Should Go Public

Both Sides of the Table

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those others that have been tried” – Winston Churchill. At the Upfront Summit this past week there was an electric interview of Fred Wilson led by well-researched and artful Dan Primack of Fortune Magazine that ended up making news. The newsworthy moment was when Fred expressed his view that companies like Uber should go public.

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10 Steps To Becoming A Thought Leader In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Too many entrepreneur “wannabes” never get past the idea stage, or strike out randomly in many directions, hoping that their passion will convince people to follow them and make their business grow.

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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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Upfront and the Power of Startup Community in LA

Feld Thoughts

I’m finally home after three solid weeks on the road which included Austin, Dallas, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It’s delightful to sit in my green zebra chair in Amy’s upstairs office, with a cup of tea, the Diana Krall channel playing on Pandora, and just catch up on stuff. The extra points from my trip was getting to spend some face time with close friends and family that I haven’t seen in a while.

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5 Best Practices For Working From Home

YFS Magazine

If you've recently transitioned from employee to business owner or feel like you're stuck in a rut when it comes to your home office, you'll love these work from home productivity tips.

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The Importance of Vesting Schedules – Part 2

Scott Edward Walker

“I didn’t even know what a vesting schedule was… [and] that mistake probably cost me billions of dollars.” –Zuck. ————————————————————————————————————————– Two months ago, I wrote a post on the importance of vesting schedules for the founders and shared

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What entrepreneurs can learn from my terrible cover band

Start Up Blog

As a teenager I was in a cover band. Which is bit like selling imitation goods at the market for discount prices. We practiced a couple of times a week, for about a year. Sure we improved, but never thought we were good enough to start doing gigs. We never left the garage. What a waste. Maybe we were good enough, maybe we weren’t. Whatever we thought didn’t matter because there was no feedback from the market, only voices in our heads and group think.

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Mergers And Acquisitions: 4 Tips To Escape The ‘Friend Zone’

YFS Magazine

Either way, you will have closure and have finally moved beyond the dreaded M&A friend zone.

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Weekend Favs February Six

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs February Six written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This week I found some great stuff – Entro for making introductions via email, Zapier added multi-step zaps so you can do even more cool stuff with integrations, and Adsvise a tool that helps you keep up on proper sizes for social ads. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting.

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