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Do entrepreneurs really have common character traits?

NZ Entrepreneur

Personality styles – these include models such as DiSC , (Wiley, 2007) Myers and Briggs and our own Circles of Empowerment Interaction Styles at EnQPractice (Geyer, 2013), designed to understand what drives the behavior of individuals. (Kolb & Wagner, 2015).The The understanding is that we are born with our personality traits.

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How To Leverage Your Time & Revenue During A Business Transition

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Now Or Never When I started my public relations business, McDuling PR, back in 2007 it was a pretty big step for me. I am not originally Australian – I was born and raised in South Africa and then Ireland, before moving here as a teenager.

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How Kerry McDuling Went From Employee To Running Her Own Publicity Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I was born in South Africa and emigrated with my parents and younger brother, firstly to Ireland, then to Australia, arriving here when I was 14. This is why… After about four years in business, I still haven’t got it exactly right, but you know what, I am in a much better place than I was in 2007!

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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Bitesize Friday: Israeli startups get funded, launch new products

VC Cafe

B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. Each week I’ll be profiling 2-3 startups that caught my attention.

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Master mobile navigation

www.netmagazine.com

With the advent of the iPhone in 2007 our concept of what it meant to access the web from a mobile device changed dramatically. That number is higher in places such as Egypt, Brazil, and South Africa, and it’s growing worldwide. And when you did so, you went right to the site, got the information you needed, and left.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

Both Sides of the Table

Stick with it the same way you “didn’t get” Twitter in 2007 when you signed up but by 2009 you were using it effortlessly. I’ve chatted with several from Israel, Ghana, South Africa, New Zealand – you name it. But get on the treadmill.” ” My thinking? Use Snapchat.

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