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The First Live Meeting With A Founder

Haystack

Recently on this blog, I’ve been attempting to unpack how an investor can sort through deal flow and potential investment opportunities. After writing about “ the quick kill ” to discard of inbound flow, next I wrote about what actually captures my attention and graduates to a meeting. So, now, what happens in the actual meeting? This is hard to explain, actually, because I can have a range of reactions to a meeting.

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A Midsummer Nights Musing: Clouds, Renewables and Digital

deal architect

In November, I ran a 3 part series titled “Raising the Bar” around cloud computing, renewables and digital transformations. Over the next few days I will provide an update on each. Each post should benefit from the vendor event season.

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8 Lessons From The Field On Building A Premier Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new business dreams of becoming the premier brand in their space, like Starbucks is to coffee, and Apple is to consumer electronics, but they have no idea how difficult that is to achieve. In fact, only 100 of the 10,000 multimillion-dollar consumer companies around the world can claim to be an “apostle brand” – one that inspires enduring trust, loyalty, and endorsement.

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Choosing The Right Digital Management System: 5 Sneaky Ways Some Providers Hold Your Data Hostage

YoungUpstarts

by Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet . In the ever-changing world of modern business, it’s your data that sets you apart. How data is stored, organized, and executed is integral to successful business growth. Knowing how to take ownership of your data is the first step to properly leveraging it to grow revenue and build your brand. But do you really own your 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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Data shows people want serious long-form content — and brands need to take note

The Next Web

You probably noticed the recent video that asked people whether they heard “Yanny” or “Laurel.” It would have been hard not to. That tiny piece of audio drove more than 10 million views, inspired countless memes, created conflict between friends, and even re-surfaced the Greek composer Yanni for a new generation. Seeing this, you might think that we’re in a golden age of sharing when any random image or video has the potential to grab an audience and with a little luck spread like a contagion.

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Important Announcement: I’m Quitting Coaching

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Back in 2007 I released my first online course, Blog Mastermind 1.0. As part of that course I began running private group coaching teleconferences for my members. As bandwidth and technology improved, these evolved into private live webinars. Not a year has gone by since then — that’s over a. The post Important Announcement: I’m Quitting Coaching appeared first on Yaro.blog.

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The Five-Day Turnaround

Jeff Hilimire

Up until now, I’ve been quite vague about the book I’m writing. As I’ve only recently been deep into the writing stage, I felt it would be premature to talk too much about the book as its already taken many twists and turns along the way. Now, however, I’m far enough along that I’m comfortable sharing more. The working title of the book is The Five-Day Turnaround.