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Pitching: The Blurred Lines Between Confidence and Deceit

Austin Startup

I was meeting a friend for coffee and we were talking over our businesses. I was still finding myself after a brutal re-organization of our company. My confidence was low and I felt like Homads was failing. About 20 minutes into our conversation, two guys interrupt us to ask about our companies. Question after question, I watched myself talk down on my background and business.

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Why Your Small Budget Shouldn’t Hold Your Startup Back

YoungUpstarts

If you’re just entering the market with your startup, you’ll probably already be getting a little frustrated by your small budget. This is always the way when you’re beginning to create a new business. There is always a shortage of cash for a business like yours, but maybe that’s not such a disastrous thing after all. Your business can still succeed without big money backing it up.

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Asimov’s laws of robotics need an update for the workplace

The Next Web

Seventy-six years ago, sci-fi author Isaac Asimov wrote his initial three laws of robotics as part of his short story, “Runaround.” With visions of physical robots living alongside humans, Asimov’s universal maxims were designed to be programmed into robotic DNA, thus preventing them from harming the very beings that brought them into existence. Later, in an effort to modernize those laws, Asimov drafted fourth law that preceded the other three.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. In 2010, the Time magazine listed the sharing economy among the 10 ideas that would change the world. 8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption.

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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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Wistia CEO Talks Hyper Growth And The Startup Long Game

YFS Magazine

Going fast might give you some instant gratification, but it’s much less satisfying when you do it alone. We all want someone to high-five at the finish line.

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Stock Trading – What You Ought To Know To Get Going

YoungUpstarts

Finding out how to start stock trading doesn’t need to be challenging or daunting. You can discover ways to make investments in the stock exchange with some information about how trading markets work, the sorts of stocks and shares you can find, and the most effective ways to use. Get this information, you will be ready to jump into everything about stock trading with both feet.

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Alice Seba: How This Canadian Mother-Of-Three Sold Over A Million Dollars Worth Of Content Other People Created

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Alice Seba started out online in 2002, after the birth of her first child. She wanted to figure out a way to avoid working a job so she could spend more time with her son. It. The post Alice Seba: How This Canadian Mother-Of-Three Sold Over A Million Dollars Worth Of Content Other People Created appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Monday Motivation: Get Angry/Get to Work

Hearpreneur

This motivational video will help entrepreneurs and business owners start their week off on the right foot. No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up. Sometimes the only way to go about doing the work is to get f*cking raw, get f*cking intense, get angry and aggressive and make it happen…for yourself. Start today! What makes a gazelle, a gazelle is how he’s wired.

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If You’re Building A Personal Brand You Need A ‘Claim To Fame’ Breakthrough Result

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I was recently a guest expert on a panel interview as part of a marketing summit. As I was listening to the other speakers and hearing their stories, it became clear that everyone involved had some kind of ‘claim to fame‘ result. They had experienced a breakthrough success in their past. The post If You’re Building A Personal Brand You Need A ‘Claim To Fame’ Breakthrough Result appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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April 6: ACE Pitch Competition Deadline

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: April 2, 2018 Particularly strong in the medicinal sector, cannabis-related startups are gaining more and more attention. Why? Because entrepreneurs want to tap into the growth of the legal marijuana industry, which (as noted by the New York Times ) “keeps beating even its biggest boosters’ expectations; customers in North America will spend more than $10 billion on legal marijuana in 2018 and nearly $23 billion by 2021.

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If You’re Building A Personal Brand You Need A ‘Claim To Fame’ Breakthrough Result

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I was recently a guest expert on a panel interview as part of a marketing summit. As I was listening to the other speakers and hearing their stories, it became clear that everyone involved had some kind of ‘claim to fame‘ result. They had experienced a breakthrough success in their past. The post If You’re Building A Personal Brand You Need A ‘Claim To Fame’ Breakthrough Result appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Find Two Mentors

The Entrepreneurial Mind

One of the greatest joys of my job is advising and mentoring the student and alumni entrepreneurs who come out of our program at Belmont. Students take full advantage of my office hours for mentoring. Some come in with the seed of an idea, while others are actively growing their ventures even before they graduate. […]. The post Find Two Mentors appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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5 points on FOCUS

Jeff Hilimire

#1 – The power of focus. #2 – Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. #3 – 5 Steps to help you focus and be exceptional at the things that are most important to you. #4 – What a crushing defeat in tennis taught me about the power of focus. #5 – Learning to let go of the small things and focus on the important stuff. ~ photo by @dtravisphd.

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3 Books Every New Business Owner Must Read

Up and Running

As a content marketing and SEO consultant , if there’s one thing I’ve learned from starting (and working with) several businesses, it’s this: If you’re not learning, growing, and innovating, you’re dying. That said, not all information is created equal. And while I love the well-known business books—like “ Good to Great ” and “ The Lean Startup “—there are books with more immediate actionable takeaways you can and should implement the day you start your business.