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10 Top Relationship Strategies For Startup Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

'Just because you are an entrepreneur, or work in a startup, you can’t ignore the rules of building and maintaining relationships. Many despise these experiences in corporate environments, and leave for a startup, only to find that they have to be able to navigate a similar minefield there of workplace and business relationships to be successful. Jan Yager, Ph.D., an author and speaker on this and related subjects, outlines in her book a while back “ Productive Relationships: 57 Strategies for B

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Vendor Vertigo

deal architect

'I read this morning an Apple fan’s uncharitable view of Google and it occurred to me we all spent so much time on Apple v Microsoft, Oracle v SAP, IBM v HP type gossip, that we forget all the good.

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Seven Tips For Boosting Your Work Cred When Winter Weather Hits

YoungUpstarts

'by Julie Miller and Brian Bedford, co-authors of “ Culture Without Accountability: WTF? What’s The Fix? “ If we’re honest, most of us love a good snow day. Especially for folks who live in warmer climates, dire forecasts and gathering cloud cover take us back to those glorious days when we got to ditch classroom work for snowmen, sledding, and hot chocolate.

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Startup Boards Crash Course At CU Boulder – 3/6

Feld Thoughts

'When I was working on Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors I spent a lot of time thinking about my ideal board meeting. I also spent a lot of time thinking about why boards are ineffective and what you – as an entrepreneur – can do to change the dynamic of an ineffective board (other than firing your VCs, which is hard to do.).

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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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4 Mistakes That Will Tank Your Etsy Store

Up and Running

'Anna White started an Etsy business and failed for months before getting steady sales. Anna White, a Louisiana school counselor, has a creative streak. Like many artists, she wanted to make a few bucks on the side by selling her handcrafted pieces on Etsy, so she jumped in. She made 150 pieces of jewelry, took pictures and waited for sales to come rolling in.

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Small Groups and the Long Game at #SXSW

This is going to be BIG.

'In 2007, I met Rob May for the first time in person at the first SXSW I ever went to. In 2010, I funded his company, Backupify , which has gone on to raise over $19 million in funding and is set to have their best year of revenue to date. I didn''t meet Rob at a big flashy party. We just hung out in a small group of nobodies, having chatted a bit through our respective blogs before.

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Do make the same mistake twice

Start Up Blog

'This is a favourite saying of companies pretty much everyone whose ever given advice about anything. But as we know, advice is a form of nostalgia, and while nostalgia can conjure important and worthy emotions, it’s not something to live a life by. Personally I believe that encouraging anyone to not make the same mistake twice is bad advice.

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Hackney House Returns to Austin for SXSW 2014

SiliconHills

'Hackney House, a venue that showcases the talents of East London’s creative, tech and design community, will return to South by Southwest Interactive 2014. Last year’s event garnered millions in business leads with 1,500 people visiting. This year, more than 30 Hackney-based businesses plans to use the space to show off their companies and to […] The post Hackney House Returns to Austin for SXSW 2014 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Getting There Is The Hard Part

Mike Michalowicz

'It’s surprisingly easy to lead your own successful business. Getting there is the hard part. The post Getting There Is The Hard Part appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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Facebook Adds Call to Action Buttons on Page Posts

Duct Tape Marketing

'Facebook Adds Call to Action Buttons on Page Posts written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Facebook recently added a feature that may help click throughs on Facebook page posts. With just a little bit of extra work you can now add native call to action buttons to your organic Facebook page updates.

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Famigo Furthers Growth, Now Pre-Installed on LG G Flex Phones

Austin Startup

'Famigo, a company providing safe experiences for children on mobile devices, is furthering momentum toward becoming the standard for family and child approved content. The company today announced that LG G Flex phones on the AT&T network as well as select 2015 Chevrolet automobiles will include a Famigo pre-installed application.

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Is an NDA Necessary? Sometimes, but not Always

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'Breaking Business : Non-Disclosure Agreements. Chris Sloan and I discuss the ins and outs of an NDA. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Is an NDA Necessary? Sometimes, but not Always appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Canon to Acquire Molecular Imprints

Austin Startup

'Molecular Imprints Inc. (MII), the market and technology leader for nanopatterning systems and solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement to sell its semiconductor imprint lithography equipment business to Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan.

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What Makes an Awesome Founder?

Rob Go

'Since I posted my Seed VC Decision Tree , one of the most frequent requests I’ve gotten is to define what makes an “awesome founder” I’ve hesitated to define this because I think evaluating founders is very subjective and I hate to make anyone think I have a particular checklist or profile of founder that I’m looking for.

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The difference between working hard and working smart

Jeff Hilimire

'In my experience of running companies for the past 15 years, I’ve known really great workers that are able to over-perform within a reasonable amount of working hours. I have also known amazing performers who work themselves to death. It can be a hard thing for people who expect a lot of themselves to know when to turn off their working brains and relax, knowing that the work will be there tomorrow.

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2014?s Top 6 Hot Tech Startups

YoungUpstarts

'by Teddy Hunt. 2013 saw a lot of new technology. So much so, in fact, that the competition ended up creating a bittersweet outcome for most companies. Now, with the new year, people have had enough time juggling all of these new technologies to figure out which ones they like, as well as what they like or don’t like about them. Here we’ll check out some of the top tech start-ups that might have a chance of really breaking through this year.