Hearpreneur

JANUARY 11, 2019

Entrepreneurship and decision making go hand-in-hand. Some decisions like firing employees require boldness which is not always a walk in the park. The decisions you make can make or break the future of a business hence due diligence is necessary before making bold decisions. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they make bold decisions and here are the responses. #1- Not allowing indecisiveness due to fear.

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deal architect

JANUARY 11, 2019

I was in Shanghai, China recently. As I have told my friends, I ended paying a “tourist tax” everywhere. Moneychangers, gypsy taxi drivers, tour guides who took me to pearl and silk stores where I am sure they got a.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2019

One of our favorite VC firms to work with is True Ventures. I’ve made many investments over the years with both Jon Callaghan and Tony Conrad, and I love being a co-investor with them. Recently, Tony told me a great Jon Callaghan quote. “Money Doesn’t Solve Problems. People Solve Problems.” I’ve learned this lesson 7,345,123 times.

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deal architect

JANUARY 11, 2019

People in our industry like to call themselves futurists. My glasses don’t allow me to look that far out. My books have, however, forced me to become a pretty fair historian. In The New Polymath I looked at Renaissance Men.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2019

by Tim Brown, owner of Hook Agency and author of “ Growthhackathon: Digital Marketing on a Budget “ Did you know that online purchases account for only 8.3% of all retail sales in the US ? This data is good news for brick and mortar businesses because it means that customers are still making their purchases in person. What has changed is how we discover businesses.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 11, 2019

By Laura Lorek, Publisher of Silicon Hills News RapidDeploy, a South African company that has created an emergency platform based on cloud technology, is branching out to Austin. The company officially opened its new U.S. headquarters at a private event at Galvanize Thursday night with Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu, the South […].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2019

The internet is an endless source of available information. Some of that information is great, but there are many manipulative strategies designed to influence our thoughts and opinions. It’s increasingly crucial to be aware of how our beliefs are being formed by external influences. This is particularly true on social networks, where social proof sneakily colors our opinions of the content we consume with likes, shares, and comments, we need to consciously disengage with public opinion be

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 11, 2019

At Dragon Army , our Purpose is to Inspire Happiness. And each quarter, I have the leadership team read a book (or books) on a particular topic, then we use this as the foundation for our quarterly offsite leadership retreat. For instance, our Q4 2018 leadership books were focused on health and wellness. As a company that is driven to change the world for the better, I wanted our team to read books that inspire us in that direction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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