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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

YoungUpstarts

It’s how your company operates internally, but it has no allegiance to the core of your business: making money and growing at a steady pace. Instead, focus on these three traits to help your small business blossom: 1. Set aside time to review metrics, evaluate clientele, or whittle down precise goals for the future.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

Hearpreneur

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. Shortly after launching my consulting practice, I took on a leadership position with several professional women’s organizations, Women’s Global Network and Ladies Who Launch, San Diego.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. 2 – Always Loved the World of Business. I loved small business owners and their stories of success. I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #22: Calculate Return On Analytics Investment!

Occam's Razor

Why is it that we analysts feel like we have some amazing untapped ability that could revolutionize any business we touch, and yet we have to fight to be included in strategic conversations where we could do the most good, and we have to fight not to be ignored when we have something important to say? Let your mind roam wild.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? I don't know if you know Frances, but she's just a remarkable teacher around new leadership principles. Sydney Gressel : I've got to say, I've been like, "Oh, so this is how the tech world is, huh, guys?" I am Eric Ries. Frank Barbieri : It sure is.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. Ron Klain may know more about the leadership side of pandemic response than almost anyone in the U.S. It's hard.