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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. I mentioned your co-author a lot of times, co-authors, you know, don't get enough credit.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Servant Leadership In Action

YoungUpstarts

by Ken Blanchard, author of the best selling “ The New One Minute Manager ” and the new “ Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results “ To me, servant leadership is the only way to guarantee great relationships and great results. Answered by Stephen M.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We look for leadership, collaboration, and innovation.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important? Thank you, global meltdown!

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Saturday, March 13th. Representatives from successful translation projects share what works.

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