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Keep A Real Job Until Your New Venture Shows Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the big decisions every aspiring entrepreneur has to make is when to quit your current job to devote yourself fulltime to your new startup. Some of you are so committed to the new passion that you quit your day job early, and dedicate all your time and resources to the new venture. Others wait until the new business starts to generate revenue and profit before making the move.

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7 Must-Dos Before Starting a Company

Up and Running

There are so many things I wish I’d known before I started my first company. Hindsight’s 20/20, but I wish someone had sat me down before I wasted a lot of time and money on a company I wasn’t ready to start. While the project quickly fizzled out, it did give me some valuable insights into all the groundwork that needs to be done before getting started which helped me succeed in my second endeavor.

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What It Really Takes To Grow A 7-Figure Business

YFS Magazine

When you embrace these 5 steps, you transition from the ultimate doer in your company, to building the foundation needed to grow a 7-figure business.

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Dreamforce Keynotethe good and not-so-good

deal architect

I am not at the Salesforce event this week but changed my travel plans to make sure I could watch yesterday’s streaming of the 2 hour keynote. Some of it was predictable.

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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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3 Tips to Protect Your Business

Rembrandt Communications

(As seen on Little PINK Book) Look forward to happiness and health in the years ahead International Day of Older Persons is October 1st, and according to the United Nations site, “almost 700 million people are now over the age of 60,” and “by 2050, 2 billion people, over 20 per cent of the world’s […]. The post 3 Tips to Protect Your Business appeared first on Small business PR and content strategy that boost sales, awareness and credibility fast!

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5 Project Management Mistakes That Slow You Down

YoungUpstarts

Project managers have a lot on their plate. They’re responsible for getting complex projects down in short periods of time, and they also have to manage the employees below them. This can easily get overwhelming, leading to ineffective mistakes and problems. Whether you’re a long-time project manager or an entrepreneur in charge of your own tasks, these are some common mistakes that might be slowing you down. 1.

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Simple Marketing Strategies For Start-Ups

YoungUpstarts

Start-ups face several challenges in their early days, and one of the biggest by far is marketing. Not only can marketing be very expensive, it can be a minefield to navigate and finding the right place to do it when you are a cash-strapped start-up is not easy. Marketing, despite being a pain, is essential — it is by far the key way for you to gain exposure when you are just starting out.

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View From The Saddle: Business Lessons I’ve Learned From Riding Horses

YFS Magazine

Stay loose, don’t fight the horse, and make sure to look around and enjoy the view every once in a while. The ride will be over sooner than you think.

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Stop Wasting Cash Today With These Top Tips

YoungUpstarts

As much as we all know we should be spending less and saving more, it’s easy to waste money without realizing it. These days, spending cash is incredibly simple. We’re all connected to the internet constantly, which means that all you need to do to buy something is tap a button on your smartphone, or swipe something, and you’ll have an item delivered to your door in no time.

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Second Seeds: The New Normal But Know This…

Hunter Walker

I delete my tweets periodically, so wanted to capture some good discussions regarding seed bridges and founder/investor expectations. These two previous blog posts provide context. The Three Types of “Second Seed” Rounds: Too Cold, Too Hot and Just Right. For Fundraising, Seed is No Longer a Round, It’s a Phase. So what can mess up a seed extension process?

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From Bonds to Bar Soap; Entrepreneur Develops and Patents a Product Bringing the Focus Back to Bar Soap

Hearpreneur

Ever dream about changing careers? Or think you have an amazing idea, but never take that leap? After spending 30 years in the investment business, Jimmy Gould did just that. His days were once spent transacting billions of dollars of bonds with large institutions and one giant leap has now filled his days with bar soap. That’s right, bar soap. As the founder of SoapStandle, Jimmy has developed and patented a product that is bringing the focus back to bar soap, promoting its benefits on health a

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How to Get the World Talking About Your Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Get the World Talking About Your Brand written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jay Baer. Podcast Transcript. My guest this week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jay Baer. He is the founder of Convince & Convert , a digital strategy consulting firm and a New York Times best-selling author of six books.

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Five Science Careers That Aren’t Boring

Transformify

No one can say that they completely abhor science. While balancing chemical equations, memorizing phases of the moon, and dissecting frogs may not have been everyone’s favorite assignments at school, science has so many branches that it is impossible for someone to dislike all of them. Learning a scientific subject has many benefits, getting an exciting, rewarding, and well-paying job is definitely among them.

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The 10 Fastest-Growing Companies [Key Lessons]

Growthink Blog

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

I don’t own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone. This wasn’t just another product announcement from Apple. It heralded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) entrance into the 21 st century. It is a harbinger of the future of healthcare and how the FDA approaches innovation.

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What’s Great About You That You’re Not Willing To Look At?

YoungUpstarts

by Brendon Watt, the Australian CFO of Access Consciousness. Have you found what you’re great at? Have you even started looking? Or, have you settled into living a life where you’re just working hard for the money? Growing up, I never really thought I would become much of anything. I didn’t have a college education and I didn’t think that left me with much of a choice as to what I could do for work and money.

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Transcript of How to Get the World Talking About Your Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Get the World Talking About Your Brand written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: With all these fancy marketing channels we have, still today, the most potent form of marketing is the original form of market, word of mouth.

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Using Logistics Smartly To Fuel Brand Expansion

YoungUpstarts

Getting big fast. It’s what many young startups want to achieve. To do so, they’ll need smart logistics to fulfill the sales pipeline with the goods that retailers have ordered. When the logistics get fouled up, the customer service desk lights up and cancelations fly in left and right. At that point, all hopes for building a great brand reputation and hitting the company’s optimistic growth targets for the year fall by the wayside.

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The future is keyless: Introducing Nexkey

K9 Ventures

Ah, the morning pat down: wallet, check; phone, check; keys, check. That’s been my routine for decades. That’s probably been your routine for decades as well. And yes, we’re carrying a super computer in our pockets, but so much of our daily lives is still unlocked by mechanical keys — little mechanical gizmos and puzzles that were invented as long as 6,000 years ago!