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10 Ways To Keep The Road Ahead In 2017 A Happy One

Startup Professionals Musings

Welcome to another challenging new year ahead! You’ve probably already made your resolutions for 2017, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your chosen business lifestyle. After all, most of us spend more hours in this role than any other, and life is too short to spend most of your life unhappy. If you haven’t tried it, one way to be happier at work is to be an entrepreneur, according to a Forbes article and a study by Babson College.

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The Only Thing an Investor Can Give You that Matters

This is going to be BIG.

VCs promise a lot of things. We've got all these platforms, advisors, special partners, communities, networks.special economic bells and whistles, spaces, programs, partnerships, etc. Meanwhile, they most useful thing we can give you when you're first starting out seems to be the hardest to get: Honesty. VCs see a lot of deals. We see successful companies and others that fall on their face--so getting our actual opinions about something, pass or fund, can be really useful.

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How To Create A Successful Mentorship Process

YFS Magazine

Mentoring is a significant responsibility for managers and it’s one that can take them out of their comfort zone. But it can be hugely valuable for everyone involved.

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Five of the Best Austin Startups that Launched in 2016

SiliconHills

data.world – This startup, which launched in July with $14 million in venture funding, seeks to solve the problem of making data fast and easy to find online. It also wants to make that data easy to use to solve problems. It bills itself as a “social network for data people.” The company is founded […] The post Five of the Best Austin Startups that Launched in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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2017 Is A Prime Year For …

Feld Thoughts

Ok – first nerd joke of 2017 for me. Yup. 2017 is a prime number. But 2017 is a pretty special prime. In fact 2017 is a sexy prime with 2011 – bet you didn’t know that! The Shrike né Predator and I wish you a Happy New Year. If you need a great blog to start 2017 with, give yourself the gift of following the Daily Overview. And, buy the book – it will blow your mind.

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Happy 2017!  Some shoutouts and new goals.

Hippoland

Happy 2017! I’m thankful to be surrounded by so many wonderful people and for good health in 2016. I look forward to a great new year ahead of us. A few shoutouts and highlights from 2016: 1) Family I feel so lucky and grateful to have such an amazing family. Juggling our household schedules isn’t easy — especially with all my trips (Asia / Europe / LatAm / Canada / US) in 2016.