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Serve It Up

Austin Startup

A frequent metaphor I use in customer acquisition, fundraising, or any kind of deal making is that you as the founder and promoter should present the finished meal on the dining table and not drag your counterparts into the kitchen. The decision is yours as to how you package up your offering in a way that matches your goals. If you have a sales model that involves relationship selling to high-level decision makers, you can be sure they would prefer a detailed proposal from you with a request to

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Multiple Revenue Streams – The Benefits, And How To Build Them Successfully

YoungUpstarts

by Gary Douglas, author of “ How To Become Money “ Money. Whether you have a lot, a little, or just enough to get by, most of us would like to increase our financial resources. You can do that through working hard and saving every penny or you can think outside of the box, ask questions and create the multiple revenue streams that would allow you to increase your money with less effort and more ease.

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10 Sharing Principles To Improve Your Business Image

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Business Quote

Hearpreneur

André Gide wrote that,”Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” Quotes are an important part of motivation, though many of them are repeats of another turn of phrase. Business owners are particularly partial to famous quotations. Reading a motivational speech from a business legend or famous creative mind can give you a spark.

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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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4 Important Steps To Turn Your Idea Into a Successful New Product

crowdSPRING Blog

Many aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners obsess about starting a new business. This obsession can be all-encompassing and most never get started. There are many reasons for this. Some are naturally afraid to start something new. This is not uncommon. Startups are risky. Others hold their ideas close to their chest, worrying that people might steal their ideas.

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When to Let Go of Plan A

Where to Play

The post When to Let Go of Plan A appeared first on Market Opportunity Navigator. Entrepreneurship is fueled by urgency, by running fast. But, have you ever stopped to check that you’re running in the right direction? Have you ever really considered your business focus? Our recently published book, Where to Play , features a 3-step guide to help entrepreneurs discover their most valuable market opportunities.

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Dreams

aweissman.com

If dreams came true, oh wouldn’t that be nice Most of my sleep dreams are mundane if I can even remember them. The other night I dreamt that I missed a flight to Toronto because I didn’t have my passport. There are other dreams that are more profound. Those are the dreams of one's life - how it turned out, how you wanted it to turn out. We often evaluate our life based on its relation to those earlier dreams we created.

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