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L’eggo My Ego! Ten Ego Needs That Squelch A Leader’s Influence

YoungUpstarts

by Karen McGregor , author of “ The Tao of Influence: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Leaders and Entrepreneurs “ If you’re a leader, everything you say and do is amplified. Others in the company take a cue from your behavior. When you inspire others, help employees grow, and keep people connected to their passion and purpose, performance soars.

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Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Lance Cummins. Podcast Transcript. On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I visit with Lance Cummins, founder and President of Nectafy , the growth content company. If you know anything about marketing today, you know that it’s all about content.

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Free E-guide: The Bootstrapper’s Guide to Business Development

NZ Entrepreneur

Building a tech startup? Learn about business development with this free e-guide from tech business strategist Flavio Hangarter. The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020). While capital to large tech companies is increasing, smaller rounds for early-stage companies is drying up.

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Want to quickly send amazing looking emails to your prospects and customers in just minutes? AWeber is the market leader in making email marketing powerfully simple for a small business.

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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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[Interview] Troy R. Underwood, Author Of “How To Launch Your Side Hustle”

YoungUpstarts

Once you’ve dug up enough pennies from between your couch cushions to start a new business, you’re going to need a plan. In the new book “ How to Launch Your Side Hustle: Start and Scale a Business with Minimal Capital “, serial entrepreneur Troy R. Underwood shows you how to start, scale, and sell a business — step by step. Using his previous company as a model of what to do — and sometimes what not do to — Underwood candidly takes you through the steps of building your business usi

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Announcing our investment in Halcyon Health

Version One Ventures

Last week, I outlined our current areas of interest in healthcare : patient networks, digital therapeutics, patient care management, new diagnostics, and disrupting health insurance. . At the same time, one of my closest friends, Josh Nussbaum , introduced his new company, Halcyon Health , to the world. I encourage everyone to read Josh’s own words about Halcyon and the need to bring cost-effective care of the highest quality to millions of people suffering from SUD (substance use disorder).

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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Guest post by Kevin Baxpehler, Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Yes, the title is “click-bait” but there is some truth to it, bear with me. Computer gaming has been around for decades and there are some interesting articles about the history of gaming, e.g. here or here. What I want to highlight is the more recent growth of the gaming industry, its way to world domination and how it crosses geographies, societies, age, demographics and industries.

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How Your Business Cards Can Be Designed To Impress New Contacts

YoungUpstarts

There’s a famous passage in Brett Easton Ellis’ 1991 novel American Psycho , and its cinematic release of 2000, whereby the main antagonist Patrick Bateman and a bunch of his colleagues share their latest business cards. The tension created as they compare, although compounded by satire and the bizarre nature of the fictional characters depicted, does prove one thing – business card design is crucial.

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Black History’s Impact on Entrepreneurship

Ben's Blog

This month, we recognize the importance of black history and the leaders who paved the way for future generations. African American culture is a driving force behind global culture, a staggering accomplishment. This collective cultural and entrepreneurial genius is what … The post Black History’s Impact on Entrepreneurship appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Being Bold and Daring in Your Professional Life

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you are an entrepreneur, it makes all the sense in the world that you would be protective of your business, and that you would want to make sure that each professional decision of yours was painstakingly mapped out in advance, so as to avoid any potential mishaps from occurring. That being said, it’s undoubtedly true that the businesses which take the world by storm are always those who are willing to push the envelope a bit, to be daring, and to innovate.

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6 Ways to increase productivity in a startup

Our Own Start-up

What you need to keep in mind is that increasing productivity in your startup is definitely not a difficult matter.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Flugauto

Austin Startup

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. For businesses that want to transport cargo, they offer the benefits of a helicopter, including speed and access to remote locations, but at the cost of ground transportation.

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Does your company have a “dirty cap table?”

Berkonomics

How it happens. When you seek professional investors, whether organized angels or venture capitalists, one of the early questions you are asked is “How have you financed the business so far?” Investors love to see entrepreneurs who have used their own money to ignite their businesses. But often, entrepreneurs turn to others for initial capital. Describing that capital using the phrase “friends, family and fools,” or “FFF,” has become as common as to be trite.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Winding Tree

Austin Startup

How Winding Tree works to improve travel bookings. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 Winding Tree has created the world’s first open marketplace for travel. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Winding Tree drives the development of open source protocols for the travel industry, starting with ORG.ID, a global registry of business entities that streamlines access to APIs in an automated and secure way without the need for third parties.

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How to Save Money on Supplies

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Supplies can be an overlooked cost when running a business. Here are just a few ways in which you can save money on supplies, whether you’re running an office, a restaurant or a construction company. Shop Online. Buying supplies locally doesn’t give you as much options to shop around. When buying online, you can compare hundreds of suppliers to get the best deal.

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Fake your way through it with watermelons, chicken nuggets, or if you’re really bold, Gates-ing

Jeff Hilimire

Photo by Floh Maier on Unsplash. It was 11 p.m. and I had just picked up my 13-year old son and his best friend from a bar mitzvah party in the Emory area of Atlanta. They jumped in the car all hyped up on energy, and apparently, lots and lots of soda. As I drove them home, they gave me the play by play of the night. The big happening was apparently two girls got into a “fist fight,” which sounded much more like a push fight when they described it.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Citefull

Austin Startup

Citefull Co-Founders: CSO Crystal Houston and CEO Kyle Grone The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 According to a Pew Research Center study , Americans rate fake news as a larger problem than racism, climate change, or terrorism, one that is eroding people’s confidence in government and each other. While the survey found that a majority of the respondents thought that journalists should take responsibility for fixing the problem, Phoenix-based Citefull can play an important role in fixing fak

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