Fri.Jun 12, 2020

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. At the end of the quarter each of the eight teams give a final “Lessons Learned” presentation. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery.

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New Niches for Startups Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

Remote work and social distancing. These two approaches will define our lives behind 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has put everyone into a new reality. The transition from our traditional lifestyle to isolation mode was anything but smooth. The whole world had to learn how to work and learn remotely and organize their leisure without leaving their homes.

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7 Ways To Optimize Passion And Energy In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you will start your business with plenty of passion and purpose, but all too often I see both disappearing after months of facing unanticipated setbacks and challenges. Indeed, it is even more critical that you keep your key team members energized with a high level of passion and purpose, or burnout rears its ugly head, putting the future of your whole business in jeopardy.

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New Niches for Startups Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

Remote work and social distancing. These two approaches will define our lives behind 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has put everyone into a new reality. The transition from our traditional lifestyle to isolation mode was anything but smooth. The whole world had to learn how to work and learn remotely and organize their leisure without leaving their homes.

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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 Make Yourself Stand Out When Interviewing For A Job

YoungUpstarts

by Juliet Huck , founder of the Academy of Persuasion and author of “ The Equation of Persuasion “ Interviewing for a job can be stressful! This is especially true if you’ve been at your company for an extended period and your interviewing skills are rusty. With the economic upheaval that has recently occurred due to the COVID-19 crisis, a lot of companies have been forced to conduct mass layoffs.

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Book: It’s About Damn Time

Feld Thoughts

My digital sabbaths are often running, reading, and napping days. That’s tomorrow for me as I’m feeling fried from another week. I’ve ordered (and received) most of the books from the NY Times Antiracist reading list along with a number of other recommendations. Most are physical books and will be my digital sabbath reading this summer.

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The New Normal For Office Snacks

ReadWriteStart

With the CDC’s newly released COVID-19 Employer Information of Office Building guidelines, returning to the office will be a challenge for managers and employees alike. It starts with the commute to work. The recommendation for people to not carpool or congregate heavily on public transit is bound to make commutes longer and more hectic. Once you arrive at the office (which likely needs a new HVAC system), you need to prepare for a discrete thermometer check.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Leaders They Look Up To

Hearpreneur

In our societies and business, there’re leaders who have demonstrated exceptionalities personalities and traits. Some of them alive and who continue to do great things while others we only read about them. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners their inspirational leaders and here’s what they had to say; #1- Martin Luther King Jr. Photo Credit: Blake Taylor.

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