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7 Strategies To Enhance Agility In The Face Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Most small businesses have now forgotten the last recession, and are back to “business as usual.” They don’t realize that business as usual is gone forever. With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Entrepreneurs that are not listening, not engaging, and not changing are destined to be left behind even in the best of times.

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The Breakthrough Presentation that Stole the Upfront Summit

Both Sides of the Table

If a picture is worth a thousand words then you already know that Chamillionaire is having a great time with his new startup Convoz. He’s here on stage with Snoop Dogg and they had just dialed in Shaq to record a live video for his platform. It was just announced today on TechCrunch. We’ve known each other for nearly a decade and he’s been a friend, a co-investor in startups and a mentor to many startups with whom I’ve worked.

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Build A Stronger Culture by Giving Targeted Feedback

YoungUpstarts

by Margie Mauldin, author of “ Feedback Revolution: Building Relationships & Boosting Results “ As young companies look for and test different approaches to evaluating performance, they’re embracing effective two-way feedback skills and creating cultures that understand how to give and receive feedback. This is not your old fashioned performance appraisal process!

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25 Entrepreneurs Reveal What They Love About Running Their Business

Hearpreneur

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. Once you finally reach a certain point then reflection can truly begin. Finding something you love in running your business keeps it from becoming stale in the long run.

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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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How To Start A Business In Dubai: A Complete Guide

YoungUpstarts

The emirate of Dubai is considered a favourable business destination for foreign investors to start their own businesses and companies. Dubai’s booming economy is what makes it appealing to investors to open new branches of their businesses there or start whole new ones. And since the emirate of Dubai is a city that caters to all needs, it is the perfect destination for all sort of business activities to take place and benefit from the ever-growing business sectors.

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More Words of Wisdom from Jeff Bezos

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Jeff Bezos , the founder and CEO of Amazon and a truly extraordinary entrepreneur. In this solid speech at Princeton from a few years back, Jeff shares some words of wisdom and inspiration for entrepreneurs, including the following: “All the curious from the ag

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Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Wendy Kopp, Teach for America – Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education [Entire Talk]

Campus Entrepreneurship

Perhaps there is no more impactful student founder, social entrepreneur that Wendy Kopp of Teach for America. The full talk is about an hour and well worth it, especially if interested in social impact, education or starting a venture while a students. Hope you enjoy it. Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Wendy Kopp, Teach for America – Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education [Entire Talk].

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What To Consider Before Taking Out A Business Loan

YoungUpstarts

by Jordan Richardson. It is one of the realities in the world of business, at one point or another, as a business owner you may need to take out a business loan. Taking out a business loan can be a difficult decision to make. You may end up having sleepless nights, getting stressed, and lose your appetite over it. However, when your business is in a bind, or if you want to expand your business, you may need to take one out.

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Addition by Subtraction

aweissman.com

“Dangerfield eliminated everything from his act but the setups and punchlines” Alex Halberstadt’s essay on Rodney Dangerfield is a masterclass on how to improve by reduction. Dangerfield worked for decades as a comedian until he figured out the thing, his insight: “by eliminating every extraneous element, you could isolate what makes it work and just do that.