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Lean Planning: A Curated List of Our Best Content

Up and Running

When it comes to business planning, unless an investor has asked you to provide a formal business plan, we recommend writing a Lean Plan instead—it’s faster, more flexible, and will remain relevant throughout the life of your business. Usually, a Lean Plan will include your “pitch”—an overview of your strategy, tactics, and business model, and a schedule of who is doing what and when—as well as some core financials like a sales forecast, an expense budget, and a cash flow forecast.

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Some Business People Talk While Smarter Ones Listen

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, I certainly recognize the need for talking to make an investment case, close a sale, or communicate with your team. I also recognize the need for active listening. The challenge is to know when it’s time to switch from one to the other. You can’t learn anything new while you’re talking, yet many business professionals and entrepreneurs seem to never stop.

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Why Losing Is A Step Towards Winning In Forex Trading

YoungUpstarts

If there are winners there are bound to be losers. That’s life and that’s also Forex trading. There are all sorts of reasons why traders become losers rather than winners. To take a few: their approach may be wrong, they may not understand how the market works or know the key indicators and key numbers and the best trading times. They may be risking too much and generally “not on the ball”.

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On #WorldMentalHealthDay, Praise for Neurodiverse Creatives

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Imagine Therapies. On October 10th every year, folks around the globe recognize World Mental Health Day, and this year is no exception. Established in 1992, the day is intended to raise awareness related to struggles involving mental illness and mobilize resources to address those struggles. With the rise of social media, the visibility of the day and the conversations that surround it have been, thankfully, greatly enhanced.

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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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Setting up A Business Blog That Will Command Massive Profits

YoungUpstarts

They say that setting up and running a business blog is a tasking endeavor. Well, it is tasking but things can be easy if the right approach is used. It is absolutely necessary to take into account a number of factors when setting up a blog meant for business. This is because your blog set up will determine whether or not you’ll succeed in blogging.

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At SXSW Eco, Google’s Sustainability Lead Kate Brandt Promotes a Circular Economy

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News “Humankind is using up our natural resources at an astonishing rate,” said Kate Brandt, lead of sustainability at Google. “Each year our economy consumes far more than what our planet can provide,” she said. Brandt, who previously served under President Obama as the Nation’s first Chief Sustainability […] The post At SXSW Eco, Google’s Sustainability Lead Kate Brandt Promotes a Circular Economy appeared first on SiliconHills.

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When Should Startups Hire A Lawyer?

YFS Magazine

Rather than waiting until you’re established, you should get lawyers involved in the formation of your company from day one.

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Should Ethics 101 Be Part of CS Degree Requirements?

Hunter Walker

“I’d require graduate level biologists to take an ethics course.” That was the surprising response we heard from a noted scientist in response to questions about the future of genetic modification and CRISPR. Her point was, it’s not about restricting access to the knowledge but rather giving practitioners more than just a cursory level understanding of the implications of choices you make in your work.

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GE Aviation Launches a Digital Collaboration Center in Austin

SiliconHills

GE Aviation is in Austin. The business, a division of General Electric based in Cincinnati, Ohio, officially opened up its Austin digital collaboration center last week. It is the first in the U.S. In the past year, GE opened similar centers in Dubai, Shanghai and Paris. The company also announced it is working with customer […] The post GE Aviation Launches a Digital Collaboration Center in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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3 Common Reasons Why Content Marketing Isn’t Working For You

YFS Magazine

Content marketing doesn't come without its challenges.

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On #WorldMentalHealthDay, Praise for Neurodiverse Creatives

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Imagine Therapies. On October 10th every year, folks around the globe recognize World Mental Health Day, and this year is no exception. Established in 1992, the day is intended to raise awareness related to struggles involving mental illness and mobilize resources to address those struggles. With the rise of social media, the visibility of the day and the conversations that surround it have been, thankfully, greatly enhanced.

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Why I Can Not Boycott Oculus — From a Woman of Color Who’s Passionate about VR

Austin Startup

This article is written in response to a Twitter message of a white male developer’s response to me of “You’re Wrong” after I shared a… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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On #WorldMentalHealthDay, Praise for Neurodiverse Creatives

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Imagine Therapies. On October 10th every year, folks around the globe recognize World Mental Health Day, and this year is no exception. Established in 1992, the day is intended to raise awareness related to struggles involving mental illness and mobilize resources to address those struggles. With the rise of social media, the visibility of the day and the conversations that surround it have been, thankfully, greatly enhanced.

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Monday Motivation – Pain is Temporary [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot.

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This Election Day: What’s the worst that could happen?

Reid Hoffman

Read my political comic on Medium.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 44: Jacqueline Ros and Christina Stembel

Steve Blank

The first two years of my startup were the most challenging years of my life; I just felt like a complete failure all the time. In moments of darkness you need to remember why you’re here and why you’re fighting that fight. Grueling. Demoralizing. Chaotic. Miserable. Most first-time entrepreneurs aren’t prepared for the challenges they will face building a startup, and yet they wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.

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Why Brands Should Ditch Pinktober

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: PinkYourLifeUp.com. It’s October, which many associate with things like Halloween and the true beginning of fall. Unfortunately, for (too) many marketers, the colors this month will not be autumnal tones, but a gaudy pink. That’s right: it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month once more, and brands, once more, are getting it all wrong.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 44: Jacqueline Ros and Christina Stembel

Steve Blank

The first two years of my startup were the most challenging years of my life; I just felt like a complete failure all the time. In moments of darkness you need to remember why you’re here and why you’re fighting that fight. Grueling. Demoralizing. Chaotic. Miserable. Most first-time entrepreneurs aren’t prepared for the challenges they will face building a startup, and yet they wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.

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Episode 117: Navigating Debt with Ruby Tan

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. This week Mike Michalowicz , Chris Curran , and Kristina Bolduc speak with Ruby Tan to discuss how she navigated personal debt. For many people this type of struggle may devastate their family and maybe even cause people to lose their homes and everything they own… but Ruby was able to navigate it by facing the challenges head on and taking very quick but strategic actions; actions that got Ruby’s family back on their feet and today they’re in a

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Why Brands Should Ditch Pinktober

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: PinkYourLifeUp.com. It’s October, which many associate with things like Halloween and the true beginning of fall. Unfortunately, for (too) many marketers, the colors this month will not be autumnal tones, but a gaudy pink. That’s right: it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month once more, and brands, once more, are getting it all wrong.

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Drawing a Bigger Circle

deal architect

I went to sleep last night jaw wide open having heard Donald Trump do his best imitation of a third world dictator and threaten his political opponent and in turn, hearing Hillary Clinton invoke beloved Abe Lincoln as she wriggled.

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Why Brands Should Ditch Pinktober

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: PinkYourLifeUp.com. It’s October, which many associate with things like Halloween and the true beginning of fall. Unfortunately, for (too) many marketers, the colors this month will not be autumnal tones, but a gaudy pink. That’s right: it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month once more, and brands, once more, are getting it all wrong.

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