Sat.Feb 24, 2018

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Tortoise vs. the Hare

Austin Startup

Most startup-lore is focused on lightning fast growth or striking out, but what about slow-growth businesses? The proverbial tortoise to the blitzscaling hares? Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?

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6 Tools To Drive You To Promote Yourself In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many people, young and older, let their career and their lifestyle happen to them, rather than proactively making things happen based on their personal passions, skills, and interests. Others make decisions based on someone else’s interests, such as the father who wants his son to take over the family business, or dreams openly of having a doctor in the family.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “You Have to Be Willing to Sacrifice” (via Jason Calacanis)

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur — and whether you’re launching your startup, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Weekend Favs February 24

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs February 24 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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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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Get More Business Out of Social Media – Top Insider Secrets

The Startup Magazine

If you’re a business owner, exec or manager, it’s understandable if you feel a little anxious when you hear the words “social media marketing.” You keep hearing about how great social media is for business, but you feel like you’re drowning in posts and tweets instead. Add this feeling of swimming upstream to the fact that there’s no one-size-fits-all pattern to social media success and you find yourself in a fast-moving whirlpool with no way out. “Stop the ma