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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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Often when they do I throw out my favorite statistic: 73.6% of all statistics are made up. I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field. Here are some examples: - You ask a small sample set so that data isn’t statistically significant. I say it deadpanned.

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5 Tactics To Help You Make Good Decisions In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

My experience confirms that managers are needed to achieve organizational goals through implementing processes, such as budgeting, and staffing, while leaders are more focused on making decisions on new challenges and capitalizing on growth opportunities. Most team members aspire to career growth as managers, then leaders.

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Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why:

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It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. It is a country that by foundation believes in capitalism as the best model of producing an equal society. I poured myself into planning and I won the class-wide competition.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. In my bones I’m convinced that entrepreneurs are more nature than nurture although I know both are involved.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. Chip Kelly believes in the statistics of players: ages, sizes, speeds – and everybody is clear what the “Chip Kelly system” was. We all want larger amounts of capital to hire more senior people and to build bigger teams.

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