Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

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 be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2017

I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases,” based on their own unique background of experiences, training, and mental state.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2017

I’ve seen an unexpected benefit to founders of Homebrew’s ability to serve on your Board from Seed until B Round — you get an easy opportunity to add an outside Director earlier than most startups. Let me ‘splain. If you have a seed fund and/or founders who aren’t interested in creating a Board together, you’re likely waiting until Series A to add an investor.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2017

Here's a look at 8 free online apps that can make online marketing much easier for small businesses.

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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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Hippoland

JANUARY 7, 2017

So you’ve raised some money, and now it’s time to make your first hire or two. But this is where a lot of entrepreneurs make their biggest mistakes. Your first couple of hires solidify your company culture, which sets the tone of the rest of your company. And most entrepreneurs tend to look at candidates purely based on skill. But looking at a person based on just one axis is a huge fallacy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2017

Weekend Favs January 7 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 7, 2017

Tibetan monks creating a intricate mandala that they will soon wipe away and throw into a nearby river. No matter your worldview, I think we can all agree that 2016 was a defining and likely transitional year in the United States of America. From politics (Clinton vs. Trump, moderates being squashed between the extreme “right” and the extreme “left,” to the passing of iconic celebrities (Prince, Carrie Fisher, George Michael, etc.), to radical, miserably unhappy short-si

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