Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2017

Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the execution challenge if they expect their startup to carve out a profitable niche in the marketplace, and keep innovating to build and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Everyone thinks they know how to make innovation happen, but I can’t find much real research on the subject.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2017

Gone are the days of working in a traditional office setting, where cubicles separate colleagues and the only social interactions occur around the water cooler. The rise in coworking spaces in New York City, and other tech hub cities around the world, has left more people yearning for work environments that are open, collaborative, inspiring and stimulating.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 15, 2017

Networking for introverts is hard. If you want to network with confidence, consider these 7 quick tips to before you head to your next networking event.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 15, 2017

Sometimes surprises can be fun, but they are definitely not welcome in business, and one way to prevent those unwanted surprises is by planning ahead. Mapping out the future of your business can be tricky, especially with so many external influences at play, but it is not impossible. Looking ahead can save you a lot of stress in the long run and keep your business running efficiently and economically.

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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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Small Business Force

JULY 15, 2017

My blog subjects come from many directions and situations. Most often, from client-related or my own business-related experiences. Now and then, though, a current event or something I read or view triggers a potential subject. Recently, Gatorade has been running a series of commercials with the theme “Make Defeat Your Fuel.” These ads, featuring famous athletes from Michael Jordan to Peyton and Eli Manning to Matt Ryan, among others, each recounting episodes of failure that fueled th

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2017

Screen capture of a rather “familiar” article on Texas Monthly’s website It’s now been exactly a month since I published an article about RideAustin , one of the local ride-hail startups that launched in Austin last year after Uber and Lyft left town. (NB: If you haven’t already done so, I’d recommend reading it first before delving into this piece, if only to understand some of the references herein.

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