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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. Practice patience to listen before reacting out of emotion.

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7 Scenarios Where A Business Plan Is Still An Asset

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. Writing it down promotes both understanding and commitment. Overall, I sense that not writing a business plan is more often an excuse rather than a time saver.

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How To Snag Lunch With A High-Profile Entrepreneur

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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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A Perspective On When A Business Plan Adds Value

Startup Professionals Musings

They cite sources like the BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this Forbes article. In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. You need money, and plan to do crowdfunding.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. He created demand. I study it every day.&#. He made many of his own mistakes.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. If you figure out how to scale a video product inside of Facebook really, really, quickly they’re likely to allow it to happen for a while so they can study the positive & negative impacts on user experiences.

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar.

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