Sun.Jan 13, 2019

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6 Leadership Habits To Develop In 2019

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Green , author of “ Activators: A CEO’s Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done “. Bad habits can be hard to break, and for business leaders who have them, they can be deal-breakers. In a survey by Leadership IQ, an online training firm, the primary reasons CEOs were fired – mismanaging change, ignoring customers, tolerating low performers, and not enough action – were often related to unproductive habits.

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12 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Maintain Boldness in Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners on how they maintain boldness while running a business and here are the responses. #1- Being open. Photo Credit: Nela Dunato. When I started my own design consultancy in 2013, I knew for sure that I wanted to be 100% myself in all my business relationships, and didn’t want to hide behind a corporate entity and we language.

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Your Passion Can Breed Biases That Kill New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases,” based on their own unique background of experiences, training, and mental state.

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How To Build A Voice-Over Startup

YoungUpstarts

If you are skilled as a voice-over artist, you may eventually decide to set up your own startup business. Many artists are happy to work for a larger company but there are also many professionals who crave to be their own boss and who wish to be in charge of their own firm. This is a commendable goal, but there are many challenges involved with the process.

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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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Alternative ways to fund your startup

The Startup Magazine

It has been discovered that over 25 million Americans currently own a startup business and this number is expected to increase. Still, it can be difficult to encounter much-needed funding in advance. Let us look at five methods which can produce viable results as well as the unique benefits of each. Source: Pixabay. Free Grants. One of the advantages of starting a business in the United States is that you have access to dozens of free government grants.

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Monday Motivation: I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN – 2019 Motivational Video

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Get uncomfortable. Go beyond writing to executing your vision. Make it work this year. When you’re obsessed and have the drive, people may misunderstand you.

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Entrepreneur’s Journey From Real Estate Agents to the CEO of an Industry Leader

Hearpreneur

Selling a home can be stressing enough. Brian Bair and his team provided services above the status quo (house cleaning, landscape, pool service) for their clients, hoping to eliminate such stressful times that occur when selling a home. Brian credits his success in the field to what he calls the concierge approach. One problem, Brian offered so many benefits to his customers that they began asking for him to help eliminate the whole process of selling a home – “Can you just buy my house?”.