Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2017

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. Different business owners also have different reason why they love their business.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. Different business owners also have a different reason why they love their business.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Unfortunately, to many would-be entrepreneurs, getting past the dreaming phase and into the doing phase seems insurmountable — especially in a shaky economy where quitting your day job seems foolhardy and funding seems scarcer than, well, pay raises and affordable health insurance. Many a great entrepreneur has been derailed by burnout.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2015

Maybe you leave fired up with enthusiasm, or maybe you harbor a nagging sense of doubt — worried that perhaps you just have the wrong people. As command-and-control management styles have become a thing of the past, the importance of connectedness has skyrocketed. You hold lots of employee meetings to talk about it.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2022

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. Different business owners also have different reasons why they love their business.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

5:02] What does it mean to be dangerous? [6:59] It's a challenge to say, let's, let's start to look beyond some of these outdated old models and see what is becoming or what's evolving and what's available for us. I mean, that's, we're gonna talk, uh, on, on your show about my latest book, the self reliant entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

Startups aspire to become big companies. There are a lot of reasons: ladder of advancement, sharing of best practices, functional specialization. If anyone has ever worked in an environment like this, you’ll probably be able to imagine the things that can go wrong. Startups are companies. Why do companies have departments?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Each story is different though the reasons may remain the same. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners why they started their own businesses and here are their responses. #1- My mission is to transform the industry so photographers are supported and successful all of these reasons I created Picsello.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

But until they had become a customer I think the thought was that the site might be used more for people who have very popular blogs or they have content that they write about about sports or medicine or whatever topic that they become an experts on. It was just $5 period but how much better would it be if it was $5 a month.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

We sought to hear from entrepreneurs and business owners and here’s what they had to say about business success. #1- Success is never overrated as a business owner or entrepreneur. For me, the best thing about succeeding in business is not the success itself, but the person it allows you to become. Photo Credit: Evalyne Cadorna.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Plus, as product development teams in lean startups become adept at learning-and-discovery (as opposed to just executing to spec), its clear that some bugs shouldnt be fixed. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Its incredibly hard to do.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

The vast majority of people I talk to who want to become an entrepreneur are 100% certain they can leave their job, create something out of nothing, and be financially self-reliant within a short time. If you think you are an entrepreneur, most likely you are not. The odds are absolutely stacked against you. You should.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Myself, Isaac Lichter, and Nick O’Brien, who would go on to become my co-founders, were at the time just my college friends. After our experience with the illness, we knew that these assumptions were wrong; at least thousands of people were going to get very sick, and we were underprepared to fight back. Tell us your story.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Confused because while I knew absolutely nothing about retail packaging, as a consumer I knew this box was not something I would pay attention to. It was black with absolutely no compelling reason to buy – no awards, no why-to-buy message, nothing. Yet when I saw our retail package, I was confused.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. Different business owners also have different reason why they love their business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 9, 2018

Here are 4 reasons to consider renaming your business… and 7 tips to help you pull it off successfully. Here are some of the most common reasons to consider a new business name… #1 Trademark Issues. This is exactly what happened to entrepreneur Jacob Childrey and his established food spice company. Others are not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

Even worse, when I was a strategy consultant I learned how easily data could be manipulated to prove just about any reasonable thesis and how a well-structured argument lined with data or pseudoscience could persuade large groups of people of dubious conclusions. I wrote about these experiences 7 years ago in a post I titled “ 73.6%

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 9, 2018

Here are 4 reasons to consider renaming your business… and 7 tips to help you pull it off successfully. Here are some of the most common reasons to consider a new business name… #1 Trademark Issues. This is exactly what happened to entrepreneur Jacob Childrey and his established food spice company. Others are not.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. From there, we worked to narrow down the list to our top 5. After narrowing down the list to our top 5, we then worked to find which domain names (.com)s From there, we picked our absolute favorite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. Any intermediate position is untenable over the long-term.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The more features they ship, the more things that can go wrong.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Each story is different though the reasons may remain the same. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners why they started their own business and here are their responses. #1- My mission is to transform the industry so photographers are supported and successful all of these reasons I created Picsello. We now have happy clients.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

As a profession, we have a set of intuitions about what good design looks like, and Ive come to believe that some of these intuitions have become obsolete. In this post, Id like to explore the reasons why. Although some of these practices are counter-intuitive, they all have been gradually adopted as their benefits become clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We obviously attracted the wrong people for the wrong reasons and this led to a lot of disappointment. Options are obviously a very important economic motivator for your first 3-5 employees and your most senior management team. Some founders err on the side of telling employees absolutely everything.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2021

We knew that entrepreneurs have the best playlists and we decided to ask them their favorite tracks. #1- It's since then become what I consider my anthem song. 5- Hall of Fame. As an entrepreneur, especially now that I work mostly by myself at home, I need a lot of energy to stay motivated. 1- Don't Stop Me Now.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. Don’t startups exist for the same reason? Incidentally, it’s also why these upstarts often get sued for bogus reasons.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The transition from a white-shoe Wall Street firm to the near absolute freedom of entrepreneurship required enormous adjustments in all aspects of my life. After thinking back through my experience, I identified six key lessons, which are applicable to anyone considering the employee-to-entrepreneur path.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Absolutely. When an open source project gets enough talented people working on it, it can become a downright masterpiece. You will have an edge with business users since time is highly monetized for entrepreneurs and enterprises. Firefox rocks.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, theyre going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. Reply Delete Peter Aug 15, 2010 04:53 PM Absolutely correct. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

However, we do know that only about nine percent of entrepreneurs in venture capital backed technology startups are women. At that point, I knew I was in the wrong room, with the wrong people. Some people believe that you have to fake it until you make it, and I believe that’s absolutely false. Never make anything up.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now. Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. Our biggest reasons for being in stealth are people related.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 4, 2010 Stop lying on stage Entrepreneurs crave information about successful startups, and they should. Most of the received wisdom about business and entrepreneurship is simply wrong. And it’s not as if the stories we hear about entrepreneurs are biased in a random way.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2013

But if you read the scenarios again — and if you’re honest with yourself — you’ll have to admit their reasons reek of excuse making. You may feel frozen and afraid that any move you make will be wrong. All over the country, there are entrepreneurs — or wannabe entrepreneurs — who are just like Steve.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. Different business owners also have different reasons why they love their business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

So yeah… a lot can go wrong. I wrote “ The Risk Advantage “ to help entrepreneurs face the many situations, predicaments, and crises they’ll encounter during their lives and to help formulate their leadership style and business strategy. Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy. Or a partner defects with your top client.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Next → Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur). And getting to know entrepreneurs for fifteen years– seeing what worked or didn’t for them– has certainly been helpful too. It’s funny: Many people argue young entrepreneurs are so effective because they can blow up industries. Get Tickets.

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