YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “Expect Leadership” Companies that train their employees in what are commonly referred to as “soft skills” are finding those efforts pay off in productivity and retention. People with soft skills are adept in areas such as interpersonal communication, leadership, problem solving and adaptability.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Anna White, a Louisiana school counselor, has a creative streak. Like many artists, she wanted to make a few bucks on the side by selling her handcrafted pieces on Etsy, so she jumped in. She made 150 pieces of jewelry, took pictures and waited for sales to come rolling in. Except those “rolling sales” never happened. In five months she sold just three items, two of which she called “pity buys” from people she knew.
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YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
If you want to manage people effectively, mentoring is a great way to cultivate soft skills like empathy and communication. Devoting some of your time to this rewarding activity can yield a high impact on your own managerial style.
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Serial Entrepreneur Ben Lamm envisions a future in which artificial intelligence is ubiquitous. Lamm co-founded Austin-based Hypergiant to fashion that future by working with Fortune 500 companies to create products for the artificial intelligence marketplace. That might include an autonomous bartender that can craft cocktails on the fly tailored to customer’s tastes.
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
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Looking back, I wish I would have tackled these items earlier. I hope these tips provide value and ease your entrepreneurship journey.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Image courtesy of Trello. Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. – Thomas Carlyle. How did the human race become the dominant species on Earth? Is it our keen fashion sense? Our obsession with reality tv? Or maybe even our tendency to claim countries with flags? No, it was our ability to use tools. And, not just any tools, but the right tools for the right jobs.
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Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
How to Remove Writers Block and Come Up with Awesome Content Ideas written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Seth Godin is often quoted as saying Content Marketing is the only marketing left. The real truth is this. Useful marketing is the only marketing people will tolerate and content marketing can be very, very useful. However, even when you have the time to produce the content , that doesn’t always mean your mind is right there with you.
Tim Keane
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Hear: How Jerry Smith's Entrepreneurship Shaped His Career in Commercial Banking [link].
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
by Ken Davenport, Broadway producer. I’m going to tell you a little secret. I can’t do everything I do myself. First and foremost, I lean on my crackerjack staff to help me get through the day to day and keep everything we do optimized and efficient. But there’s another group of folks I rely on who you’ve never met, and probably never will. That’s because they don’t work on Broadway.
Tim Keane
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Hear: How Jerry Smith's Entrepreneurship Shaped His Career in Commercial Banking [link].
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Want to know the biggest challenge Satya and I faced when announcing Homebrew’s third fund ? How to describe the phase of company we seek to invest. “Early stage” has been coopted by billion-dollar VCs who try to shoehorn a $10m ARR SaaS company into their idea of risk capital. And the verbal gymnastics of some founders! “We did a pre-seed, followed by a seed, then a bridge and an A.
Jeff Hilimire
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). * Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family. Everybody Matters has been recommended to me dozens of times by people in the “conscious company/business” world.
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