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8 Strategies For Remaining Cool And Collected At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Over my years in business, I have accumulated a list of recommended strategies for keeping cool and calm in the face of increasing demands at work. Some recent studies by scientists assert that multi-tasking not only reduces your output, but it also reduces your IQ. Balance in your time on strategy and operational issues.

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8 Entrepreneur Attributes Proven To Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

He has completed a study of more than 100 CEOs, with feedback from over 8,000 of their employees on this topic. His research concluded that CEOs who received high scores for character also achieved much higher business results – nearly five times the average return on assets (ROA) during the two-year period covered.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

A new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that it’s going to be a close election. Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. Let’s start with Prop 22. Image Credits: Screenshot of DoorDash app via TechCrunch.

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6 Initiatives To Prep Your Startup For The Road Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Failure rates this high demand a new mindset and startups are the logical place for this to happen. In summary, change will happen.

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How To Snag Lunch With A High-Profile Entrepreneur

InfoChachkie

Benedikt Scholz is an exceptional student whom I had the pleasure of instructing when he recently studied at UC Santa Barbara. Before arriving in Santa Barbara, he had already launched his first startup, Rooming , which helps college students manage their living accommodations while studying abroad or interning. Meeting Adam Cheyer.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

And when you achieve product / market fit your company often ramps revenue very fast and you need to build an organization to address it from demand generation (aka marketing) to sales discovery to implementation and after-sales support. Compelling Event. Compelling event answers the final question in sales, “Why buy now?”

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8 Brand Strategy Rules From Elite Consumer Companies

Startup Professionals Musings

They outline the new rules for existing brands, but I believe that every entrepreneur who doesn’t yet have a brand yet should study these carefully, as paraphrased for startups below. Without the feedback, no change in the demand space will be noted. People still judge a book by its cover. Target all the senses all the time.

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