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Dr. Dallas Dance Explains Why Leaders Should Never Stop Learning

The Startup Magazine

Too many leaders are complacent and feel that they have gained the highest level of skill in their fields. Leaders who are not in learning mode can cause stagnation in the workplace, maintaining the status quo rather than forging into new territory. It is vital for leaders to continue to enhance their leadership skills in order to foster company growth.

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Is Winter coming for startups?

VC Cafe

11 years ago Sequoia released the “ RIP Good Times ” Presentation. With the financial crisis meltdown, it was clear that “winter is coming” for startups. Even though VCs are sitting on large cash reserves, many economists indicate a slowdown in 2020 , so it’s prudent to prepare for winter. Rip Good Times, Sep 2008. So, is if it’s business as usual and the markets continue to go up is there even a reason to change anything?

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What Big Companies Look For When Buying Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Thinking about selling a business? What will bigger companies be looking for when evaluating yours? What makes them acquire others? Sometimes it is just the right time to sell your startup. However, having sold my own venture for millions of dollars, I can tell you that getting acquired and finding the right startup exit is 10 times harder than raising capital. .

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Trimming The Hedges, Planning For A Rainy Day

Haystack

At the end of 2016, folks in the startup tech ecosystem looked toward 2017’s impending “uncertainty.” Then at the end of 2017, the same worry about 2018; rinse and repeat last year, looking toward 2019. Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more.

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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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How To Raise Capital For A New StartUp

The Startup Magazine

Starting your own business can be an exciting time. But it can also be stressful, daunting, and incredibly overwhelming, especially when it comes to the task of raising the necessary funds to get your dream off the ground. Where to even start to raise startup capital is the question on nearly every new, potential business owner’s lips, but asking for advice is never easy.

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Why the changes at SAP may be timely for the industry

deal architect

Since Thursday evening I have heard from many if I am surprised by the changes at the top at SAP My answer is "only slightly" From Sapphire in May, I wrote after some of the changes earlier in the year.

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Workfront - looking for work productivity in all the right places

deal architect

Alex Shootman, CEO of Workfront, is versatile on many fronts. He has traveled more of the world than his tech peers. He has a family with adopted kids which deserves to be profiled in a movie. He is very good.

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Father of 3D Printing Makes it Possible For Everyone To Paddle a Perception Brand Kayak

Hearpreneur

They say there’s a success story behind every failure in business. That’s why Bill Master’s story and background is intriguing and thought-provoking. He was the first person to patent 3D Printing. Unfortunately, in an attempt to scale his business, he lost control of his patents due to venture capitalists and ultimately faded out of what is now a $6 billion industry.

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Forbes Interview with Andy Molinsky – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

Forbes Interview with Andy Molinsky – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch’s latest book, The Sel f-Reliant Entrepreneur , is due out October 2019. He sat down for an interview with Andy Molinsky in which he elaborated on the concept of the self-reliant entrepreneur. Jantsch shares why self-reliance is such a critical trait for entrepreneurs to possess, the common mistakes he sees young entrepreneurs making, and what pie

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ProLon Day 5

Feld Thoughts

Today’s the last day of my ProLon Fasting Mimicking Diet. I wrote about my start in a post titled ProLon Day 1. I was a little nervous about trying this so I figured I’d blog about it to bust through any anxiety I was having about trying it. I find myself very happy with it on Day 5. I’m not hungry and have only had a few stretches where I was hungry, and I think most of them were a result of someone (where 50% of the time that someone was Amy) saying “Are you hungry?

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally desig

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Coming Storms: Three Reasons That VC Firms May Start Overlooking “We’re Conflicted” and Make Competing Investments

Hunter Walker

There was a time when far less written about – or by – venture capitalists. But I seem to recall “we won’t invest in two competing companies” was an oft-stated principle even in these more opaque days. To me, it seemed sensible, even from just a strategic framework, let alone ethical. Part of being an insider meant you needed to be trusted by entrepreneurs with early looks at their businesses.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: Blended Sense

Austin Startup

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series returns this week with the Co-Founders of Blended Sense : Abigail Rose , Albert Baez and Georgina Elizondo. If you’re a creator dabbling in the world of content marketing, or a small business owner in need of content, you’ll want to keep Blended Sense on your radar. Having a digital presence is key if you want your business to stay relevant.