Sun.Mar 10, 2019

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7 Facts Of Business Life People Learn From Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” I find that the basics are actually the hardest to answer, just like your parents found out when they first tried to fill you in on the “facts of life” a long time ago.

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Venture Deals Online Course – Spring 2019 Registration Is Open

Feld Thoughts

We are running the Venture Deals Online Course again. Registration is now open and it runs from April 7, 2019 – May 31, 2019. It’s produced by Kauffman Fellows Academy and Techstars. We’ve run the course four times now and have had over 15,000 people take it. Both Jason and I make several guest appearances (online) and I always get lots of email (and try to respond to all of them) with questions during the course.

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True Blue – an Internet public art story

David Cohen

A few years ago while sitting on a barstool in Boulder, I was chatting with my friend Eliot Peper. Eliot is a terrific author, and has written many great books circling around entrepreneurship with some of it set in Boulder. That day, I was sharing a thought about a story I had in my head. I was secretly hoping he might think it was interesting and write a book about it.

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How to Save Time in Project Management

The Startup Magazine

“Time is money”. It’s an overworked phrase. But closer analysis brings up an important question: If time equals money, why is it common in business to see far more intensity of focus placed on managing money than on managing time? In fact, just like money, time must always be carefully managed and invested in a manner that produces maximum returns. In project management, how skillfully this is carried off will have a direct effect on bottom line profit.

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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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Brand yourself: When you shouldn’t create a company brand

ConversionXL

Branding is everything. But, do you really understand how hard it is to build a company brand as a solo entrepreneur? In this episode, Peep discusses why you should develop personal branding instead of a company brand. [This post contains video, click to play]. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel. The post Brand yourself: When you shouldn’t create a company brand appeared first on CXL.

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5 Reasons Your Call Center Should Be in the Cloud

The Startup Magazine

The newest trend in call center technology is the cloud. The global market for private cloud services is increasing rapidly. Cloud-based services work, and you’ll find good reasons your call center should be in the cloud. Greater flexibility. For any business, a weak point in customer service is being there when customers want you. This is especially difficult if you are trying to expand out of the local market.

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