Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I know the title “I promise you one of the most meaningful days of your life” sounds grandiose but I mean it and I hope you’ll read through to the end and choose to take one small, totally free action, that will change your life and likely those of others. On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-mo

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. I agree with Robert E. Litan, former VP of research at the Kauffman Foundation, that these are exceptions to the rule, rather than a model to emulate.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Starting any small business can seem like a daunting prospect, especially when faced with all the little details of what makes a company tick and with minimal resources. From the payroll services for small businesses to the marketing, nothing can be left out when looking to make your big break. So, where do you start with your startup and how can you make the best choice for a more profitable and financially successful future?

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deal architect

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Harper Lee published her Pulitzer Prize winning book, To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. A couple of years later, Gregory Peck won an Academy for Best Actor in his role as Atticus in the movie adaptation. Quite a remarkable book.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Sally Spencer-Thomas, CEO of the Carson J Spencer Foundation (which Amy and I support) is having a meetup on 10/26 about Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Entrepreneurs. If this topic is important to you, I encourage you to attend. The post Boulder Meeting on 10/26: Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Entrepreneurs appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Even people born with entrepreneurship in their blood have bad habits they have to unlearn in order to be truly successful.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Ordinary people would be convinced that nothing could be done.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Weekend Favs October 15 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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2016

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In an interview with Rick Anthony of The Entrepreneur Network Radio , “The Entrepreneur’s Yoda” discusses “Boomerpreneurs,” the over 50 crowd moving into entrepreneurship. Your browser does not support the audio element. The Kaufman Foundation, in their annual poll of entrepreneurs, last year found that the number of new entrepreneurs over 50 were more than twice the number under 25.

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