Fri.Apr 17, 2015

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Top 9 Easy Career Hacks That Most People Don’t Do

David Teten

'I gave a presentation to Womensphere a few months ago on the most valuable lessons I learned early in my career. Back when I was an entry-level investment banking analyst at Bear Stearns (R.I.P.), our trainers gave us some basic advice on how to be a good financial analyst. At the time these sounded obvious, but now with hindsight I think that most of your success in your career is just executing on these basic points…whether you’re a CEO or aspire to be a CEO.

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Ten Connecting Conversations That Help THIRTEENERS Succeed

YoungUpstarts

'by Dan Prosser, author of “ Thirteeners: Why Only 13 Percent of Companies Successfully Execute Their Strategy – and How Yours Can Be One of Them “. Here’s an inconvenient business truth for you to consider: It doesn’t matter how valuable, cutting-edge, or unique an organization’s product or service is if its people can’t connect positively and effectively with each other.

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Are You Trying To Be All Things To All Customers?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. Strategy used to come from the inside looking out, but now it must come from a dialogue and engagement with constituents.

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Workdaytime for a fork?

deal architect

'Workday has a ritual it plays out twice a year. It does an hour long webinar to summarize features in its latest release. Stan Swete used to MC the session three times a year. Now, Leighanne Levensaler does it twice.

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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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Social Media — For Those Who’ve Been Left Behind

YoungUpstarts

' by Chad Hill, CEO of HubShout. If your small business isn’t already established on social media, you could be as much as a decade behind some of your competitors. Before you attempt to catch up, it’s important to understand the basics so you don’t waste time floundering and making rookie mistakes. Why Social Media? . Two words: Content Marketing.

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How to Create a Unique Value Proposition

Up and Running

'Whether you’re a new entrepreneur or thinking about joining the ranks, one question you’ll have to answer is: What sets your business apart? The answer to that question usually leads entrepreneurs to define their unique value proposition, also called unique selling proposition, or USP. To help entrepreneurs create a value proposition, we’ve written this handy guide to walk you through the process.

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History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme

Feld Thoughts

'My favorite Mark Twain post, which I share with my close friend Phil Weiser (the Dean of CU Boulder) is “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” There is a lot of rhyming going on. If you want a quick taste, go read today’s Fred Wilson’s blog post Coming Up With A Better Name For NYC’s Tech Community. If you know me, you know that it think that it is tragic to label things Silicon Blah.

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Picasso on the power of just starting

The Equity Kicker

'To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing. – Pablo Picasso. Picasso was a prolific genius and one of his tricks was to remember that the act of starting to draw got him started on the path of building the vision for his creation. This trick stands for most any task. The act of getting started is very powerful in beating procrastination and getting things done.

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The Element of Job Ads That Is Most Important (And Often Forgotten)

Mike Michalowicz

'We’ve all seen (and maybe even written) those job ads that make it sound as though the staff is a sunny, smiling crew and the environment is full of high-fives and atta-boys. You know – those job descriptions that make it sound as though you’d practically pay for the privilege of walking through the door and being part of the team? Staff discounts, tuition assistance, team building….all can be yours if you’re the candidate lucky enough to be selected for the job.

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My next journey: fund and empower 10,000 entrepreneurs per year

Hippoland

'After selling LaunchBit , I’ve decided to move on and join the investing team at 500 Startups and will be running the 500 Startups accelerator in my hometown Mountain View. To be honest, I didn’t think I would ever join a VC. I’m an entrepreneur at heart, and I love building things with other people. But, I got sucked in, because 500 is a different beast. 500 isn’t just an investor.

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A New Company

Spencer Fry

'Before I get into the story of Coach (its founding, where it is today, and where it’s going), let me tell you what it is: Coach is an online test prep company offering students video lessons, practice questions, access to GMAT experts, and more. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk backstory. Backstory: How Skillshare influenced me. Online education has been around for a while.

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The power of focus

Jeff Hilimire

'The talk I gave earlier this week ( here were my notes ) was to a group of about 20 successful entrepreneurs. They were currently running businesses and the point of the event was for them to hear stories of passion and building momentum. One topic that they asked me a lot about was around focus. I told the stories of how we didn’t see real growth at either Spunlogic and Engauge until we were able to focus on who we were and what we were great at.

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Twitter Link Roundup #265 – Exemplary Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

'I like to think of myself as chameleon-like, able to adjust to fit into whatever the surrounding or with whomever is around me. But, I got nothing on these two women! Artist Johannes Stoetter’s work focuses on fine-art body painting and he has raised the bar to extreme heights. Click play on the video above and watch his work come to life! So try your best to blend into the surroundings, because it’s time for our weekly Roundup!