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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

By beating the heavily favored Kentucky Wildcats in the Final Four round, The Fab Five entered the championship game again, this time to face the University of North Carolina, a team they knew they could beat. North Carolina came out strong on both offense and defense and took an early lead.

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Executive Transition Toolkit: Documenting a Successful Executive Search

Board Effect

Research from North Carolina State University found some nonprofit executives leave for “voluntary retirement,” but almost three-quarters depart for other reasons. Instruct all stakeholders to complete their scorecards after each meeting with each candidate and collect them for the search committee to review.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

This post originally appeared on the TransferWise blog. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed.

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you like it, check out Scott's blog and tweets @ ScottEdWalker. My father's mother, Goldie Buch, was a High School beauty and then lost her mind somewhat due to medication administered to her during my father's birth. If you like it, check out Scott's blog and tweets @ ScottEdWalker. Jim Collins (Good To Great).

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How We Designed Our New Logo (Plus, a Creative Brief Template)

Up and Running

If you’ve been following some of my other blog posts, you’ll know that we’re in the process of launching a new email product called Outpost. Here’s how we described Outpost’s differences: It’s for regular, “main street” small businesses, not tech startups. Will customers have a different feeling when they buy from your company?

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I wanted to use technology to connect consumers and homebrewers so that when one of our members is drinking a beer we feature they can have (almost) the same experience as if they went to a small brewery and had the brewer serve them beer and tell them about it. Thanks to Alexx Shaw, Alethea Spectacle ! 7) To Give People Back Their Dreams.