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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

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Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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Do Entrepreneurs Learn From Their Experiences?

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The entrepreneurial learning curve is often an extremely steep one, with entrepreneurs picking up the tools of the trade at a rapid pace as they try to grow their businesses. The researchers tracked over 300 entrepreneurs as they launched over 700 technology hardware projects on Kickstarter between 2010 and 2019.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

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Famous entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, are often portrayed as mythical creatures who have left the womb imbued with the talent, burning desire, and tolerance for risk-taking required to be the exceptional entrepreneurs they ultimately became. The reality isn’t quite so romantic. Supporting entrepreneurship.

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What It Is That Make Immigrants Such Good Entrepreneurs?

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Immigrant entrepreneurs. Traditionally, it has been thought that immigrants make such good entrepreneurs both because they bring novel perspectives with them from their homeland, but also the unfamiliarity with the domestic labor market makes entrepreneurship an attractive alternative to traditional employment.

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Employee Engagement: 2010 Research Insights

Michael Lee Stallard

In July, Hewitt released a report showing that for the quarter ending June 2010, 46 percent of the 900 organizations it tracks experienced declines in employee engagement versus 30 percent of the organizations that experienced improved employee engagement. Military Gamification in Everything? why is everyone smiling?

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

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Seth Godin’s Blog : The best-selling author, entrepreneur and “agent of change” gives you personal insights on the leadership landscape. Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog (n2growth.com) [.] I know, I know - another list? I find myself only agreeing with Seth about 50% of the time, but he makes me think 100% of the time.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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