Sat.Oct 06, 2018

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A different Vegas. A very different Workday.

deal architect

This was my sixth trip to Vegas this year. Coming from humid Florida, I have a routine for that city. Gallons of water and lotion to compensate for the heat and dryness. Gear to protect against the excess of artificial.

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What Young Entrepreneurs Need To Watch Out For When Launching Their Startup

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business as a young professional is an accomplishment but lack of experience can lend itself to making mistakes. Young entrepreneurs are also prone to those mistakes that come with youth whether it is sponsoring too many company happy hours or taking days off simply because they can. The founder of a company acting in such a way can lead to a lack of accountability of the staff.

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SAPs Rainbow Coalition

deal architect

I spent a day at SAP TechEd this week. I was there primarily to meet some customers and execs for interviews for SAP Nation. I knew the theme of “open” would be prominent during the event, but I was not.

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10 Keys To Reducing The Risk The Second Time Around

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who experience success with their first startup are often amazed to realize that the risks and fears of doing it right the second time go up, rather than down. Encores are tough, especially in the high-risk world of startups, yet every entrepreneur I know can’t wait to start over and do it again. Sometimes their haste or ego causes them to ignore basics, and they fall hard.

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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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Weekend Favs October 6

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs October 6 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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Words of Wisdom from Travis Kalanick

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Travis Kalanick , a brilliant entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CEO of Uber. In this interesting presentation from a few years back, Travis shares some solid “lessons” for founders and entrepreneurs (starting at the 11:01 mark), including the followi

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Is social media good or bad for us? Yes.

Reid Hoffman

Each new communications medium — writing, newspapers, radio, television — has both created essential progress and posed new and potentially harmful challenges to society. The fundamental lesson we need to learn from our history is not that we should halt or reverse innovation, but rather that we need to evolve new technology and its interface with society.