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6 Powerful Drivers Shared By Successful Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience mentoring new entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders, I see far too many who seem to be driven by all the wrong reasons. Everyone seems to espouse extrinsic motivations, such as getting rich, having power, and fulfilling parent dreams, when in fact a focus on satisfying internal interests and desires will likely lead to more success, as well as satisfaction.

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A New VC Crop of Series A Firms

Haystack

Many of the most storied brands in venture capital made their name by being the investor of record in a specific company’s “Series A” round — largely thought of as the round after friends, after family, and more recently, after seed, where the new investor would lead the round, set terms, join the board, reserve capital, and make a long-term commitment to the company.

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What Does It Take To Launch And Sustain A Profitable Membership Site?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

???? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] In this solo podcast, I dive into all the various experiences I have had selling membership and subscription-based products online, including insights I have gained from interviews and coaching other successful membership site owners. My first ever product, although it was […].

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a16z Podcast: From Research to Startup, There and Back Again

Ben's Blog

The period from 2000-2016 was one of the best of times and worst of times for tech and the Valley (dotcom, financial crisis, Google IPO, Facebook founded, unprecedented growth, and so on), and John Hennessy — current chairman of Alphabet, …

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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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5 Must-Know eCommerce Tips For Small Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Dave Woodward, Chief Revenue and Business Development Officer at ClickFunnels. From small-town mom-and-pop shops to “mompreneurs” working from home, eCommerce is the key to keeping the revenue stream flowing and keeping your business afloat. However, many business owners who want to take the leap to eCommerce — or who have just started selling online — don’t know how to maximize their efforts. eCommerce is really the only way for businesses to stay alive today, especially as a small business

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