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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

Such a team can also often do the work for you, which helps to ratchet-up your effectiveness. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. In addition, the best antidote for a lack of motivation is building a very motivated team around you. A motivated team can help eliminate the all-to-natural desire to shirk. 14- Six tips.

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Inspired Ideas to Boost Employee Productivity During the Holidays

Up and Running

Ratchet up your company’s social networking posts. Tis the season for giving, so why not take a Friday afternoon and help at a women’s shelter, the local food bank, an animal protection society, or other community-minded organization? Why ignore the fact that everyone’s in holiday mode on Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram?

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How to Keep Your Team Productive Around the Holidays

Up and Running

Gather your thought leaders together for a discussion of what you can do in the coming 12 months to ratchet up sales and blow the roof off your revenue stream. As you focus on your business, you may start to forget that you have responsibilities at home and within your social community as well. Manage client expectations.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

Still, because my job is to create bridges that don''t yet exist between people inside the DOE (see 1-4) and those in the entrepreneur and maker communities, the MVP model provides the best template. (Spoken, as if to a child) 4) The way to avoid (3) is to design by committee and then to ignore feedback, because anyway (1).

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6 Reasons I’m bullish on mobile gaming #dragonarmy

Jeff Hilimire

I’m betting that as more mobile game studios generate substantial returns, the angel and VC community will ratchet up their interest in investing in these studios and entrepreneurs. We just need a few more King.com successes to generate enough interest.

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Horse Trading

ithacaVC

“Horse trading” is a bad phrase in the startup/VC community. ” Or possibly, “Ok, I would ask for the same thing if I were you, but let’s lose that full ratchet anti-dilution protection… ” Anyway, I am sure you get the point. Get ready to deal with it… unfortunately.

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Think Global, Act Local

OnlyOnce

At Return Path , we have always had a commitment to community service and helping make the world around us a better place. We ratcheted that up a lot in the last year, which is why we added the following statement in as one of our 14 Core Values : Think Global, Act Local. There’s no right way to do community service as a company.

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