Mon.Dec 26, 2016

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Want To Start A New Business In 2017? Do It From Home.

YoungUpstarts

by Kristy Dickerson, CEO and co-founder of STARTplanner. Somewhere, at some point in your life, you’ve had a brilliant idea for a start-up business. Am I right? Or maybe you have a hobby that you love and want to make a career out of it. Odds are that you’ve often fantasized about ditching your J-O-B to start a business of your own; to be your own boss; to set your own hours and make your own decisions.

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7 Key Principles of Question-Based Leadership To Win

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many people in business just expect their leaders to give orders. Maybe it’s for this reason that as professionals advance in their career, they tend to start asking fewer questions and providing more answers. Smart leaders, on the other hand, learn to ask more penetrating questions, listen carefully to expert input, and empower the right people to get the best solution.

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CEOs Who Are Pleasers Should Spend More Time With Customers

Feld Thoughts

I woke up this morning thinking about people who have a desire to please. This is not my personality type, but I encounter it regularly. Amy often describes herself as an “approval-seeking people pleaser” and I’ve learned a lot from my 30 years of interacting with her. With CEOs I often notice the pleaser personality in the context of employees.

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11 ways to get more from your user data

The Next Web

It’s not enough to just collect data — you have to know how to use it. You should know what to collect, and what to do with that information once you have it in order to improve the bottom line of your business. To help you figure it out, I asked 11 successful entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: What is the most creative way you see companies using collected user data?

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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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How To Do Life And Business Together As A Couple

YFS Magazine

Some people say you should never go into business with your spouse or partner, but the fact is lots of people do so – and it’s worked brilliantly for them!

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Andreessen Horowitz Should Act Like VCs, not F*ckboys When Addressing Diversity in Tech

Austin Startup

One of the most hipster racism patterns and practices is faking diversity by seeking out black people that white people like instead of… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Startup Reality: When Personal Runway Runs Out

Austin Startup

It’s Monday, December 26th at 6:15pm. I’m 1.5 (cheap) beers deep in front of my computer (with my tolerance that feels like 6) and just… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Episode 128: Drive your Profit with Storytelling with Elizabeth Barry

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode with Elizabeth Barry, she talks about the power of personal brand development through storytelling. Stories about your business can and should evolve over time to keep your audience always engaged. As Elizabeth says, if you can’t tell it you can’t sell it. That’s how important storytelling is and there is no question that storytelling is a main driver of profit.

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The Day I Did Get Snapchat Spectacles

Austin Startup

It’s a Christmas miracle Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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