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Beware The Consultant

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Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants. There is nothing under the sun that will suck up your time and money faster, more prodigiously and less effectively than a consultant.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

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He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. And I really wanted to get into management consulting field. So, my partner, my boss had a strong vision for what he wanted the firm to look like.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Franchises Beware of Song Birds When Doing Homework on a Franchise. When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. July 31, 2007 |.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. "Its Find road-trip partners on Zimride.

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

In this presentation, serial entrepreneur Eric Ries will share practical solutions based in his work building IMVU to more than 25 million members worldwide and his experiences consulting to more than a dozen technology startups. This will be an in-depth discussion with a handful of entrepreneurs and founders that have been pre-selected.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. Imagine you are crossing the street. Now imagine the herculean task that faces those who are blind. We can learn to see.

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Happy new year

Startup Lessons Learned

As for a topic Im particularly interested in, Id be curious about partnerships: the type of formal or informal relationships one tech co has with another in terms of either cross marketing or integrating each others products. I question what numbers I would need to be considered respectable and/or worth a potential partners time.