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6 Tips to Boost Workforce Engagement and Motivation

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Ask for help in eliminating useless tasks. They need you looking ahead to anticipate what they will need, and providing it before the next crisis, before they must beg for help.

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Often Destroy Team Motivation

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it because there are plenty of tips, seminars, and books on the motivation side of the equation, starting with the basic Motivating Employees for Dummies , and so few resources on elements of demotivation. Non-specific directions like “make it better” or “get it right next time” are not helpful or motivational. Marty Zwilling.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x.

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No Entrepreneur Sets Out To Demotivate Their Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it because there are plenty of tips, seminars, and books on the motivation side of the equation, starting with the basic Motivating Employees for Dummies , and so few resources on elements of demotivation. Non-specific directions like “make it better” or “get it right next time” are not helpful or motivational. Marty Zwilling.

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Crowdfunder Hosts 1st Crowdsourced Startup Contest | Crowdstart LA

Tech Zulu Event

The panel of experts not only judged the competition but also gave the companies feedback after their pitch. After the pitches and the announcement of the winner, Chance Barnett, CEO and Co-founder of Crowdfunder lead a seminar on Business Crowdfunding, updating the attendees on crowdfunding laws. TradeYa Inc.

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Pipeline Fellowship | Raising Women to Become Investors

Tech Zulu Event

Natalia Oberti Noguera is on a mission to help change the demographic of investment with her Pipeline Fellowship. Pipeline Fellowship teaches women to become angel investors and become a more powerful and helpful voice in the investment world. How many seminars does Pipeline Fellowship have? That is something I am aware of.

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