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3 Simple Ways Productivity Leads To Your Best Self

YoungUpstarts

By Johan Gunnars, CEO and cofounder of Simpliday. What do you think of when you hear the term “self-improvement”? If you’re like a lot of people, you might imagine working your way through giant stacks of self-help books, starting an intensive new exercise regimen, or devoting more time to charitable causes — all of which are certainly worthwhile ways to improve oneself.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Share Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may remain the same.

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5 Steps To Avoid Solutions Looking For A Problem

Startup Professionals Musings

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters may be hard to find.

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Can You Really Make A Living From Binary Trading?

YoungUpstarts

Every day you read in the news that some trader has made millions with online trading and that sounds like something you’d like to do. At this point you are probably asking if it is really possible to make a living from binary trading and rightfully so. The quick answer is yes, you can. However, it’s not quite that simple. You may not really make millions but with a bit of information and a lot of effort, you can make a living.

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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 follow up with investors who have rejected you?

Hippoland

When I was fundraising, there were a ton of investors who rejected me. Worse yet, there were many more investors who gave me no-response / went MIA / or was non-committal. So what do you do with all of these people? Is it worth re-approaching these people later? The short answer is yes. A “no” or non-response today isn’t forever. But the natural response that most entrepreneurs have is, “Oh, this investor doesn’t like me,” and he/she just shrinks away from talking w/ that investor ever agai

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Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #044

Austin Startup

Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State — SUBSCRIBE View this email in your browser Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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