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6 Ways To Strengthen Your Base As A Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, this kind of leadership has a big risk, since you have no one to blame if you get it wrong. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain.

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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, starting and running your own business comes with financial and personal risks, so I always recommend that you do your homework first, and follow some tried and proven strategies to improve your odds of success. Pundits in Latino countries quickly pointed out that the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.

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10 Keys to Remaining Cool And Calm Despite Pressures

Startup Professionals Musings

With some coaching and mentoring from other leaders, I was able to do it myself, so I know you can do it too, by committing to the following strategies: Train yourself to always look for positives, not negatives. Write down your top 5 core values and review them often. Do the same for any commitments to the community and family.

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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

There are large sums of money to be invested and if investors can get comfortable with “downside protections” they’ll still write checks. Of course I believe the market has slowed down massively. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!,

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. acquired Overture for $1.63 Yes, Google won.

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

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Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work? Take us through your features?

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