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10 Guidelines For An Entrepreneurial Strategic Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

'Deciding to be an entrepreneur is a lifestyle move, and should be part of a long-term strategic plan. You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks it’s a good idea. In these changing times, if you already have a startup, with no plan, maybe it’s time to think ahead for a change.

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Enterprise Software ChurnRimini Street keeps rolling

deal architect

'The general presumption in the enterprise software marketplace is customers stay loyal for lifetimes – the more realistic thinking, of course, is they stay loyal for long periods, but not that long. When I was researching SAP Nation, I was.

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How To Deal With Email After A Long Vacation

Feld Thoughts

'Since I’ve had dealing with email on my mind recently, I thought I’d write about how to deal with email after a long vacation. Over the years, I’ve heard over and over again from people who never going on vacation or getting off the grid explaining that they can’t imagine doing this because they would be more stressed out when they return to all the email they have to respond to.

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For National Reading Month

deal architect

'March celebrates reading. Can I recommend for your reading list the book on left which is a comedy, a tragedy, action genre title about the technology business? Seriously, not every one is a book reader, but in the spirit of.

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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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What stops your apps from becoming financially successful?

The Next Web

'Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of mobile app growth marketing agency Apprise, focusing on building distribution for startups and enterprises. Subscribe to his free email series on mobile app growth hacking. Less than 1 percent of consumer mobile apps are financially successful, according to a report by Gartner. Do you see this as disheartening news or as an opportunity?

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Walker Twitter Highlights: February 9th – March 1st

Scott Edward Walker

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “If you’re a founder who has great ideas and is good at writing business plans, you are going extinct.” - @Jason bit.ly/1JiQXn2. “As VCs, our job is to find spectacular entrepreneurs and help make them successful.̶

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What being lucky really means

The Next Web

'Jason Zook is the founder of IWearYourShirt and author of Creativity For Sale. This post originally appeared on his blog. For as long as I can remember, the saying, “you just got lucky” or “that person is so lucky” has always made me cringe. I’ve never believed in luck—let me explain why. Everything that happens in life can be traced back to some amount of effort.

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