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12/08/2016

“14 Skills Successful Entrepreneurs Need to Have” — https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/14-skills-successful-entrepreneurs-need-to-have-54f94d715a1c #---0-47.492f25p26

Understanding the skills and traits of successful entrepreneurs helps sharpen your own focus, guiding which areas you’ll need to focus on…

12/05/2016

Six Crucial User Feedback Questions (Plus Four to Never Waste Your Time With)

https://www.startups.co/articles/six-crucial-user-feedback-questions-plus-four-to-never-waste-your-time-with?utm_campaign=Startup+Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=38671760&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8D0q2brrtiApL-aaDclouoRkHTmoPGz-2r35gwRodBlPt7T0o93F34VjH7ta-sl6OL5orVxiMOvFmiKLV5CtKIaP6ZIg&_hsmi=38671995

11/30/2016

"When we did decide to raise money, I can tell you that we did it at almost double the valuation we wanted and on incredible terms..."

https://medium.com//how-to-generate-1m-to-fund-your-startups-first-2-years-of-growth-66631a5187a2?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9dKmvIcvjlffpMnesa8WcZOUBGoe_PgQo71DOzG0xcLC3AbDM00c_bkpqEsDMTkwZZ1AvZzABKTmQbwAb6c5BKn50uMA&_hsmi=38429713 #.r1b3h5z5k

Thinking of raising money? Read this first.

07/03/2016

5 Reasons for Businesses to Go Mobile
http://smallbiztrends.com/2016/03/go-mobile-in-2016.html

Employers who engage with the latest technology and go mobile in 2016 will no doubt have a head start on their competitors. Here's why.

07/02/2016

"The technology of “telepresence” feels different from talking to a computer screen; somehow, the fact that Snowden is standing in front of you, looking straight into your eyes, renders the experience less like enhanced telephoning and more like primitive teleporting. "

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/edward-snowden-life-as-a-robot.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

He is an exile like no other, able to slip the bonds of his banishment on wheels.

07/01/2016

Six Eye-Opening Mobile Trends for 2016
http://smallbiztrends.com/2016/06/mobile-trends-2016.html

What mobile trends in marketing and technology should you and your business have its eyes on the rest of this year? Here are 6 to watch.

07/01/2016

A Salamander Robot, interesting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMWMJ1wv9w4

Based on X-ray videos, EPFL scientists have built a new robot that mimics how salamanders walk and swim to unprecedented detail: a step towards understanding...

06/27/2016

Are any of these on your reading list?
http://linkis.com/businessinsider.com/XkNIk

Take one of our favorite business books of 2016 on your next trip to the beach.

06/12/2016

The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. People who maintained this schedule had a unique level of focus in their work. For roughly an hour at a time, they were 100% dedicated to the task they needed to accomplish.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2016/06/07/why-the-8-hour-workday-doesnt-work/

The eight-hour workday is an outdated and ineffective approach to work. Let go of this relic and try a new, more productive approach.

06/10/2016

The truly successful business man is anything but a risk-taker. He is a predator, and predators seek to incur the least risk possible while hunting.
— Malcolm Gladwell

06/04/2016

Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS, talks to Inc.'s Scott Ge**er about starting a mission-based business, the challenges of manufacturing globally, and how he learned-- the hard way--that shoes are best sold in boxes, not bags.

http://www.inc.com/blake-mycoskie/founders-forum-pay-close-attention-to-the-man-behind-toms-shoes.html?cid=rw0087

Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS, talks to Inc. 's Scott Ge**er about starting a mission-based business, the challenges of manufacturing globally, and how he learned-- the hard way--that shoes are best sold in boxes, not bags.

06/02/2016

Some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs were not A+ students while in school. In fact many of them either never attended college or dropped out. Take Steve Jobs, notorious for being disengaged in most of his college classes but deeply passionate about typography. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates both dropped out of Harvard to…

http://blog.1000angels.com/why-c-students-make-the-most-successful-entrepreneurs/

Some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs were not A+ students while in school. In fact many of them either never attended college or dropped out. Take Steve Jobs, notorious for being disengaged in most of his college classes but deeply passionate about typography. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill G...