Sat.Jun 18, 2016

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Why Every Entrepreneur Needs A Startup Co-Founder

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea. Thus, unless the visionary highlights a cofounder who can take the vision and execute, I assume the worst.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not Twitter Is Dying

Hearpreneur

Share Twitter has had its shares of ups and downs over the last few years. Every introduction of new social media platforms chip away at current banner holders like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Over the course of the last couple years co-founder Jack Dorsey was reinstated as CEO due to decline, the constant buzz about doing away with 140 has caused uproar on both sides, and every week a headline concerning stolen information is splashed across every news site.

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8 Personal Growth Hacks to Improve Your Professional Reputation

YFS Magazine

Reputation is everything in business. Your professional reputation can you cause others to see you as a competent professional, or go unnoticed entirely.

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The Best Startups Resist Snacks (& I’m Not Talking About Food)

Hunter Walker

Intercom’s Head of Growth recently wrote a blog post based on a conversation we had about prioritization within startups. It’s about evaluating roadmaps by a 2×2 of Impact and Effort. I’m glad they found it useful and full post is here. “It’s the low-effort, low-impact work that can kill you, because it’s so attractive. Hunter refers to it as “snacking”.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Money as a Story

Austin Startup

I realize this is something said frequently but… Seth Godin is a pretty remarkable guy. After listening to Godin on Tim Feriss’ podcast, I… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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The Best Startups Resist Snacks (& I’m Not Talking About Food)

Hunter Walker

Intercom’s Head of Growth recently wrote a blog post based on a conversation we had about prioritization within startups. It’s about evaluating roadmaps by a 2×2 of Impact and Effort. I’m glad they found it useful and full post is here. “It’s the low-effort, low-impact work that can kill you, because it’s so attractive. Hunter refers to it as “snacking”.

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Weekend Favs June Eighteen

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs June Eighteen written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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