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Debunking Five Job Hunting Myths

YoungUpstarts

'by Thomas Moran, CEO of Addison Group. It’s inevitable that new job hunters will run into a plethora of career advice, both wanted and unwanted. As the job market continues to be tough and technology is increasing competitiveness the dos and don’ts of job searching are changing. But while career advice is a useful tool in the job hunt, it can also be extremely outdated and counterproductive.

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‘I don’t know’: Why admitting you don’t have all the answers is perfectly okay

The Next Web

'Jason Freedman is the co-founder of 42Floors , making it easy for everyone to rent office space. He’s a two-time Y Combinator alum and blogs regularly on humbledMBA. This post was originally published on the 42floors blog. I want to share an interesting conversation I had with Kiran Divvela back when he was still interviewing for our company. Kiran runs all of our data supply chain activities.

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CS Degree Won’t Make You A Great Engineer, Your First Job Will

Hunter Walker

'Early Google engineer and now Twitter Ads engineering manager Jeremy Ginsberg follows up on my New Grad Career Advice with some of his own thoughts. tldr: CS Degree Won’t Make You A Great Engineer, Your First Job Will. A CS degree is generally the best foundation for a career in software (for PM’s and SWE’s alike, IMHO), but it won’t make you a great engineer: your first 2 years working in industry are when you really develop your skills and learn best practices.

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One Of These Days, You May Not Be An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

'If I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me, “One of these days, I’m going to start my own company,” I’d be rich. If this day ever comes for all these people, we will be overrun by startups. Yet I don’t lose any sleep over either of these possibilities. Most people procrastinate from time to time, but I suspect that the challenge here is somewhat deeper than that.

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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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Vibrant Frankfurt

deal architect

'I have been to Frankfurt countless times, but I have an unfair, bland view of the city possibly because so much of the time has been spent at the sprawling city that is FRA airport. Spending a beautiful spring day.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Gust

'Image via Flickr.com. It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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SXSW: Israeli startups and how to Get an ROI from the Spring Break for Geeks

VC Cafe

'SXSW celebrates its 21st anniversary this week with a cornucopia of music, film and digital networking. From its humble roots as an indie music retreat, it is now ground zero for digital validation. SXSW is where Foursquare and Twitter conquered the digerati and Mark Zuckerberg addressed his first prominent conference. Now the event is at a cross-roads.

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How to steer your team members back on track

The Next Web

'Andre Lavoie is the CEO of ClearCompany , a real-time talent alignment platform that helps companies connect all aspects of talent management to their business strategy. It can happen to anyone… all is going well with your company, when something just seems a bit off, nothing major at first, but something just isn’t quite right. As Global Managing Director at Thomson Reuters, I decided I needed to spend time checking in with employees using a method I called “five levels to find out” to encour

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9 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Customers

crowdSPRING Blog

'In this series, I have typically chosen a group of people and looked at the unique things they do from which we can all learn. These lessons have sometimes been silly, and sometimes serious, but they have always tried to focus on how, as entrepreneurs and managers, we can draw lessons from the world around us. As management has become increasingly data-driven, the best managers have developed a facility with extracting and analyzing data: market data, competitive data, and (most of all) custome

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How To Make Your Product More Desirable To Customers

Mike Michalowicz

'You are likely familiar with the scarcity theory – the concept that the less available something is, the more desirous it becomes. But few people realize that products became even more desirable when the item only recently became less available, as opposed to being scarce all along. The next time you watch the Home Shopping Network, you will see this strategy at play.

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Kickstarter Surpasses $1 Billion in Funding

Growthink Blog

'On March 3rd, Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that is surpassed $1 BILLION in funding pledges. That’s $1,000,000,000 in funding for entrepreneurs. Very interestingly, Kickstarter included lots of interesting statistics on these crowdfundings as follows: 5.7 million people funded these projects (versus less than 1,000 active venture capital firms worldwide) More than half of the $1 billion was pledged in the last 12 months alone The 5,708,578 people who have backed a Kickstarter proj

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Mahana Won the Austin Fast Pitch Competition at SXSW

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News At the Austin Chamber Office Sunday morning, a standing room only crowd turned out at 9:30 a.m. to hear the ten finalists of the Austin Fast Pitch competition at South by Southwest Interactive. That’s pretty amazing considering the parties at SXSW stretched into the wee hours of […] The post Mahana Won the Austin Fast Pitch Competition at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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My Startup Grind talk, where I spill my guts, has been changed to March 17th…

Jeff Hilimire

'We had to move the date of the Startup Grind Fireside chat but the good news is that it will be the first night event at the Atlanta Tech Village’s new event space, which opens that same day! I’m really excited about spilling my guts :). Sign up and ask me some tough questions!

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