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8 Habits Of The Highly Successful Leader

YoungUpstarts

Leadership is a skill that takes command, tact, and vision. As the great entrepreneur Jim Rohn once said, “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”. Leadership is not only one skill, but the culmination of many which help to craft them into someone who can be approached for advice, guide a business through a strenuous

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9 Tips to Increase Profit NOW from Leading E-Commerce and Online Retail Experts

Mike Michalowicz

What I love about the E-Commerce industry is that it provides opportunity for everyone. It’s a great business leveler. The continual innovation of technology and product can provide infinite scalability for an Online Retailer. Plus there’s an industry wide openness and willingness to share what they have already learnt with those new to selling online.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

I’m sure you consider yourself data-driven. You make decisions based on data. Problem is, most companies aren’t using their data to the capacity they could be. It’s almost a universal problem, and it means you’re leaving money on the table. You see, the current structure of the modern marketing stack leads to a large amount of data fragmentation.

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Entrepreneur That Grew Up In A Household of Educators Creates Solution to Education Challenges

Hearpreneur

There’s many ways to learn but for most developers and coders it’s hard to learn any other way then by doing. Similar to entrepreneurship, the best way to learn to be a web developer is to actively work on projects. We had the opportunity to speak with Ariel Quinones of Ironhack with locations in Miami, Barcelona, Madrid and Paris to hear his story, what entrepreneurship means to him and how Ironhack changes the paradigm of what it means to teach 21st century digital skills.

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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 Andela Finds and Trains World-Class Engineers in Africa [Traction #41: Christina Sass]

View from Seed

Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg. Visit andela.com to learn more, or follow Christina at twitter.com/sasschristina.

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SapphireNowis SAP poised to lead the industry again?

deal architect

I went to SapphireNow in Orlando last week. I am getting requests to write an update to SAP Nation. There is plenty I could write about – how thousands of SAP customers are trying out one or more of the.

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Fooled by Your Own Expertise

Both Sides of the Table

I am wired to discount people who have total assuredness in their point-of-view, have dogmatic positions or use data as a crutch or substitute for logic. I appreciate people who have strong opinions or conviction but expect them to constantly be testing their opinions and refining their approaches as they encounter new people, facts or logic. I have long believed that humans (myself included) err on the side of over-confidence in their own abilities and thoughts.

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10 Qualities That Will Make You An Entrepreneur Idol

Startup Professionals Musings

To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra that you can’t quite put your finger on, like Ryan Seacrest is searching for on American Idol. But the entrepreneurs that have it, including Elon Musk and Richard Branson, seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere.

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Enterprise Cross-currents observations from this years event season

deal architect

Over the last few weeks I have had a chance to listen to Oracle, Workday, Microsoft, NetSuite, Plex, SAP, Salesforce at conferences or their analyst summits. Here are some common threads: a) We have entered the era of intelligent and.

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Survival of the Fastest: Enabling Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Brandanew

I was recently invited to speak at the Management and Entrepreneurial Skills Summit held in Delhi, India. My video (as I could physically not be there) was streamed live for the session on building up an entrepreneurial ecosystem and the survival of the fastest. Here’s the full transcript of what I shared with the audience, also with the video that was streamed at the event.

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Have An Idea? How To Find Investors And Make Your Pitch

YoungUpstarts

by Tara Reed, CEO of AppsWithoutCode.com. Getting your startup started is no easy task. It takes a lot of research and development, not to mention an endless amount of time to make an iota of growth. If there is a market for your idea and all the parts are in order, you can harness funding to grow your company. Where do you start? What’s the best approach?

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10 Behaviors That Highlight Your Leadership Ability

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my years of experience as a new business advisor, I always find leadership to be more important to business success than any new technology or innovative solution. The challenge is to adequately define leadership in terms of everyday activities. Most entrepreneurs believe they are leaders, even though the feedback I get from their team and partners may indicate otherwise.

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Thousand points of influence

deal architect

It’s been a decade since I wrote this post in which I said We all have our roles to play - but put yourself on the grid of 1000 and see what steps, decision makers, and influence impact you have.

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Maps for Unity: Location Based Games and Mapbox

Feld Thoughts

This morning’s launch of Maps for Unity brings the full stack of location tools to the world’s most popular game development platform and shows that location and maps are the new building blocks for AR and VR games. We think the maps look amazing and are insanely fast. Bringing location and maps to game developers is a big deal. Pokemon Go had maps because Niantic, the game’s creators, started as part of Google and the company is run by John Hankey — the former CEO of Google Maps.

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4 Emotional Intelligence Skills To Transform Your Leadership Style

YoungUpstarts

by Steven Stein, Ph.D., author of “ The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations through Emotional Intelligence “ In today’s work settings, many of the old-style hierarchal and authoritarian styles of leadership have become obsolete. We’ve witnessed significant strides in replacing rewards-punishment “transactional” management styles – that have mostly proven unproductive – with “transformative sty

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7 Key Strategies Will Assure Company Sustainability

Startup Professionals Musings

As a new business advisor, I am no longer surprised that every new entrepreneur believes the hard part is creating the first product and the business. Perhaps luckily, they have no idea that scaling the business and maintaining vitality as a mature business is even harder. What most often kills a company is the illusion (or delusion) that all is now stable and everyone can relax.

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CIOs love their jobs

deal architect

I have not heard that in a long time and so was struck by that statement in this press release from Harvey Nash, the recruiting firm and KPMG, the public accounting and advisory firm announcing results from their annual CIO.

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How to identify the gaps in your own leadership style

The Next Web

A leader’s strengths and weaknesses directly inform how they guide others to thrive at work. The good always comes with the bad, as every leader has flaws that correlate with the skills that have led them to succeed in their career. According to Lolly Daskal’s new book The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness, these shortcomings are referred to as leadership gaps as they can either prevent you from reaching your full potential or be leveraged to help you rise to the occasion

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What Entrepreneurs Need To Understand About Adverse Actions

YoungUpstarts

by Richard Gertler, managing partner of Gertler Law Group, LLC. Under most anti-retaliation laws related to whistleblowing, employees must prove that an employer took “adverse action” against them in order to mount a successful legal claim. Courts have offered differing opinions on what qualifies as an adverse employment action. In most cases, though, taking an action that results in a financial loss to a worker may put you on thin ice.

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8 Keys To Positive Media Attention For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay.

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What Sort of a Brand Leader Are You?

Brandanew

Like many of you, I recently read an article on Steve jobs and his impact on the Silicon Valley brand leaders. Startups and small businesses like to emulate their heroes to replicate success. It’s not uncommon for Startups to pitch being the “Uber of ABC, or the AirBnB of XYZ” in an attempt to create a brand perception. This could potentially be for an investor or a customer.

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7 Real Estate Copywriting Mistakes That Steal Sales

Rembrandt Communications

REALTORS®, is your content sending customers to the competition right now? Real estate copywriter Melanie Rembrandt give you secret insights to boost sales fast As a real estate professional, you post content on a daily basis. You post new listings, social media posts, articles, blogs, emails, and more. But, your copywriting may be hurting your […].

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Campfire – 5 Things To Consider To Be A Digital Nomad

YoungUpstarts

by Wang Tse, co-founder and director of Campfire Collaborative Spaces. There is a certain charm in the idea of being able to work remotely, lounging beside the beach with a mojito in one hand, while updating your social media page, knowing you have it better than the inane 9 to 5. With more of the world working online, it is easier to take remote working and kick it up a notch, to live the lifestyle of a digital nomad.

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Meet Out Latest Investment – Citizen Hex, an Ethereum Liquidity Company

Version One Ventures

It has been no secret that we have been actively researching and pursuing blockchain companies, particularly those in the Ethereum ecosystem. A few months ago, I wrote that 2017 could finally be the year when cryptocurrencies start delivering on the huge potential that many have been predicting for a long time. Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology, never developed a strong use case besides storing value.

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How to Move on When Your Business Idea Fails

Up and Running

Each day, entrepreneurs of all ages come up with fresh ideas for their new startups. They’re full of excitement and hope. They dream of turning their ideas into thriving businesses. But the reality is that few of those businesses will succeed. They’ll get started, build some momentum, and then burn out. It’s tough but true. The key to being a successful entrepreneur is not just coming up with a great idea—it’s continuing to come up with great ideas, even after failure.

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How To Use Content Marketing To Grow Your Brand

YFS Magazine

Creating and distributing fresh and relevant content is a vital step for business success. But getting it right and managing the content process is key.

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Various Types And Sizes Of Booklet Printing

YoungUpstarts

We all have heard of the idiom – ‘Good things come in small packages’. This phrase goes very well with the booklets which are a very handy piece of design A booklet is smaller than a book in size as well as volume and has usually between four to forty pages. You must have come across many printed booklets in your everyday life like a retail booklet at a shop, sample booklet by a designer, an instructions manual or a mini brochure.

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Techstars AMA With Me On Mental Health – 5/25 @ 4pm EST

Feld Thoughts

On Thursday 5/25 at 4pm EST, I’ll be doing an AMA with Techstars titled Mental Health Awareness & the Startup Community. The post Techstars AMA With Me On Mental Health – 5/25 @ 4pm EST appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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7 Unconventional Business Books Every New Entrepreneur Should Read

Up and Running

If you’re just starting out, the business world can be a maelstrom of confusion. This is especially true if you’re looking for advice. It seems like everybody is shouting for attention, and you have to sift through all the so-called gurus (or even worse, “ninjas”) peddling their latest lame ebook. This stuff is rarely helpful, and it often exists just to make money for self-professed experts.

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The Biggest Business Lie: ‘It Takes Money To Make Money’

YFS Magazine

People think you need to have money in order to make money. That is simply not true. Instead, you need to change how you look at business.

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Highly Effective Local Marketing Strategies You May Want To Use

YoungUpstarts

Business owners always want the company to succeed. In order to reach that success it is really important to invest money in marketing. The problem for the small businesses is that they do not have the large marketing capital that the big companies have. A local marketing company is your best bet but what you should know is that most of the smaller firms just have around $5,000 to spend on marketing per year.

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Sphero’s Ultimate Lightning McQueen

Feld Thoughts

If you’ve been in our office recently, you’ve seen me fiddling around with one of my newest toys – Ultimate Lightning McQueen by Sphero. It’s now available for the world. Based on what I know about robotic toys, I believe it’s the most advanced robotic toy ever made. Owen Wilson is even included in it (well – his voice – as LMQ …).

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14 Tips for Your First Trade Show

Up and Running

If you’re familiar with the industry events known as trade shows, then you know just how valuable they can be to growing a business. Trade shows offer a wealth of opportunities, including increasing brand awareness, networking with prospective clients, and making sales. One of the most well known is the SXSW event hosted each year in Austin, Texas, by Southwest Airlines.

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Why It Pays To Patent Your Invention

YFS Magazine

Inventing is not something everyone does, but it's something everyone wants to take credit for. Here's why patenting your invention is a good idea.

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Five Critical Ways To Become Indispensable In Business

YoungUpstarts

by Rick Wong, author of “ Winning Lifelong Customers With The Five Abilities “ Competition is fiercer today than ever before, and no matter how much you focus on data, analytics, and performance, it may surprise you that what ultimately matters the most to people is the human touch. Companies don’t make decisions — people do. And people make the most crucial business decisions for personal reasons.

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Here’s the test: Can you create 5 strategies and 5 tactics to achieve your goal?

Berkonomics

In past weeks, we explored the need for a tangible goal and strategies that are measurable as steps toward achievement of your goal. Today, we explore how to create tactics to accompany each strategy, and even suggest a number of tactics to consider for each strategy. Tactics support strategies and are more short term and procedural than the strategies they support.

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