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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. These days, you can’t start and run a business alone. Network extensively for partners, investors, and suppliers.

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Calacanis Starts Up New Venture Fund

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Not only is he running his own technology conference, Launch, he''s also making angel investments, and opening up his own coworking space , he''s also created a new venture capital fund, the Launch Fund. conference launch investment jason capital venture calacanis' Jason Calacanis is busy. READ MORE>>.

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5 Keys To Starting New Trends Rather Than Following

Startup Professionals Musings

Get out of the office to visit real customers, attend industry conferences, and network with peers and influencers. This starts with strong leadership and communication on your part, but it has to extend into the training, decision making, and reward systems that you foster. Learning can be fun and profitable.

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Calacanis Splits With Arrington, Boots Up New Tech Conference

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Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based search site Mahalo , said Tuesday afternoon that he and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington have parted ways, and will no longer be running the TechCrunch50 conference.

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GLAZED | Wearable Tech Conference [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu is happy to announce that we will be bringing you all the action live from the GLAZED Conference Monday, September 30th starting at 9AM. The post GLAZED | Wearable Tech Conference [Live] appeared first on TechZulu. Sonny Vu, CEO, Misfit Wearables. Steve Schlenker, Principle, DN Capital.

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Richard Branson Started Virgin Airlines Because Of A Girl And A Cancelled Flight

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Popular and prolific and blogger James Clear recently shared with me why Richard Branson started Virgin Airlines. All of the superhuman precepts cited by James are intriguing, but the eighth one especially resonated with me: We believe that successful people start before they feel ready and fight when it gets hard. And so I think that.

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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice!

Berkonomics

The result of the consulting project… Finally, at the end of the project, we had identified nineteen specific issues, each of which would, if implemented, accomplish one or more of the goals outlined at the start of the project.

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