Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2019

By definition, most entrepreneurs are thought leaders. They have the ability to recognize a market need, the skills to design and implement a solution, and the drive to start a business from that solution. It all comes from within themselves. A business leader does the same thing and more, through the people around them. Most entrepreneurs are not both.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2019

Have you been dedicating time to creating an online presence in the digital world, only to realize you’re in over your head? It seems straight forward at first. You hire a professional developer to redesign your website , then you launch a blog because content marketing is vital, you post new topics every week, but you don’t really see an increase in qualified leads.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 15, 2019

Improv is a Swiss Army Knife for Problem Solving. I just completed another workshop for high level executives in the use of Improv for Problem Solving. Most of the group were skeptical at the start. It shows up in their body language; arms folded across chests, quizzical looks, and self-conscious laughs. I get it. When I was in their shoes I would have resisted games to, I would have been afraid to act silly (or vulnerable).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2019

Weekend Favs June 15 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 an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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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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