Fri.Apr 29, 2016

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6 Leadership Behaviors Drive Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur and business executive knows that continuous innovation is required to survive, but most struggle with this more than any other challenge they face. They know they need to act proactively, but still are often blindsided by a new competitor coming out of the blue with a future they never imagined. Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership.

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An upbeat PowerPlex

deal architect

I spent a few days at Plex’s user conference in Detroit this week. For me, the backdrop was the invigorated city as I describe here. That amplified the many upbeat conversations and presentations I witnessed at the event.

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4 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Can Overcome Limiting Beliefs

YFS Magazine

Well, the truth is entrepreneurship can be a very rewarding, fulfilling, and lucrative endeavor, but it can also be a very frustrating, overwhelming, and isolating experience too.

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7 essential steps to help you build a winning startup strategy

The Next Web

You have a great idea for a business and are rightly excited to get going. There is so much to do that you can hardly sleep at night. You are thinking of all the plans and steps that you must complete, like securing financing, setting up a website, hiring your first employees… the list goes on and on. You feel deep pressure to finalize all the details – if not today, then first thing tomorrow.

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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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10 Reasons Why Fast-Growth Entrepreneurs Need A Personal Assistant

YFS Magazine

Hiring a personal assistant to handle the details may be just the thing to take you from a state of overwhelm to a thriving and fulfilled entrepreneurship experience.

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Resources for Starting and Managing Your Restaurant

Up and Running

Whether you’re just starting out or already have an up and running business, these are resources you’ll find useful for starting and managing your restaurant. Get to know the industry. Weekly videos including tips, tricks, and strategies. Ryan Gromfin is a restaurant consultant and former head chef with extensive experience in the industry.

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Blogging For Business: Did You Know You Can Expense That?

YFS Magazine

Make sure you are smart when it comes to your business taxes. Stay on top of it. Stay honest. Stay organized through the year.

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Is Your ‘About’ Page Ruining Your Chances of Getting a Referral?

Duct Tape Marketing

Is Your ‘About’ Page Ruining Your Chances of Getting a Referral? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Canva. Every business has a website, right? It is your shop window; the place where people learn about you, your brand and the products or services that you’re selling. And due to our heavy online usage habits, it’s also the place that dictates the sustainability of a company.

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Can You Build A Meaningful Life Without Vision And Purpose?

YFS Magazine

Vision clarifies purpose. When you know this, life will become simpler and more meaningful.

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5 Ways Artists Can Work Like Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: Tool kit from Shutterstock. By Laura Zabel, founder of Creative Exchange. “How am I going to make a creative living and a life?”. That question can be daunting for artists, writers, performers and musicians at all stages in their careers, whether just starting out fresh, mid-career, or choosing to focus on artistic work full time after a lifetime of balancing it with other jobs.

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How To Develop Your Personal Brand As A Millennial

Brandanew

The idea that you have to develop your personal brand is not an option you leave out for the exam, having crammed up the rest of the stuff. In today’s digital world with a gazillion channels and platforms, it’s the only way to stay in control with your online persona(s). Whether you’re starting off with your own business or just applying for a new job, your online brand continues to be of upmost importance.

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