Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I’m an entrepreneur, after all, and I’m always taking calculated risks. I kept my foot off the accelerator and just glided along to avoid splashing water on the engine. The ability to see “reality&# as it is, is one of the most valuable skills we entrepreneurs can master. So I decided to go ahead.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Ask yourself the following questions: Why should anyone be led by you?

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

The innovation initiative was born from our Organizational Growth Team, a cross-functional internal team formed in 2011 to focus on investing in Genecians, evolving our capabilities, and predictably delivering value to clients. The Innovation Group is Born. Each of the 15 participating Genecians had about 3 minutes to pitch their idea.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

We are considering offering something like the following on a monthly basis: Review trends of your specific keywords Identify potential hotspots for blog links Update Facebook Fans page = 25-50 postings Identify and connect with potential Facebook friends Update Twitter account = 30-50 Search Engine Optimized postings Leave comments on blogs and websites (..)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. I learned a valuable lesson: Entrepreneurs need to have plans in place for investors to exit, especially in developing countries. Most are gone after about four to eight years, and entrepreneurs need to present a clear path for that to happen.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. In China, I have found that a different mindset dominates.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This is simply due to the fact that more people want to hear what a high profile CEO or entrepreneur has to say. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Talk to other entrepreneurs, but only accept advice from the successful. Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Be willing to be scattered.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

September 15, 2010 at 09:10 AM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview. Recent Posts Modern Man Decathlon Rising Above the Stage Show The Ass Carrying the Image The Empire of Debt Caption Contest 2011.2

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

She has a proven track record with diverse businesses, from entrepreneurs to Fortune 50 companies, both nationally and internationally. She served as Vice President of Programs for the Phoenix Chapter of International Coaching Federation in 2011. Everyone in the company must respect and recognize the work of the sales team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Subroto Bagchi’s first best-selling book, The High-Performance Entrepreneur , shared his story of building a company. Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. It is not enough to be a good surgeon, a civil engineer or a litigation lawyer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Most VCs and entrepreneurs believe start-ups are inherently iterative, that a string of mistakes doesn't prevent success, but may even be the path to it. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. The event brought together some 250 entrepreneurs and investors for a series of panels, round tables, and a business plan competition. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Seth Godin’s Blog : The best-selling author, entrepreneur and “agent of change” gives you personal insights on the leadership landscape. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Alexa Rank : 5,678 (HBR) Google Page Rank : 6 (HBR) PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 0 TwitterGrader Score : 99.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having traveled to the Middle East repeatedly over the past two years, I decided to write a book about the remarkable and little reported on rise of a new generation of tech start-ups and entrepreneurs across the region. Entrepreneurs are watching these dynamics play out in real time: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

And whether you’re in the culinary arts, book publishing or cloud technology, when you become an entrepreneur, work-life balance becomes a thing of the past. As a big skier, I head to Snowbird in Utah each January with other entrepreneurs to hit the slopes. The “Older” Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

First, technology imitation occurs far more quickly today than in the past, due in part to the global base of technology competitors and the speed of reverse engineering. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There’s a sense that it’s up to us to get the country back to work, and that’s driving entrepreneurs to Detroit, Baltimore, Providence, and any number of cities that have struggled with unemployment. From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who are highly motivated to be successful often put themselves last when it comes to down time, relaxation, exercise and living a healthy lifestyle. Now, back to your point, throw in a class after work and studying for an eight hour professional engineering exam it makes it pretty difficult to exercise and eat healthy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Brand new research conducted just last year by multiple teams of economists confirmed what many entrepreneurs such as myself had long suspected: startup businesses are responsible for all of America's new job growth. Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Actually, we can.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Reports of an entrepreneur trying to teach a homeless man to code and, most recently, of one ranting publicly against the homeless haven’t helped. Perhaps most damning to entrepreneurs, inclined to pride themselves on what they produce, is the charge that many of the products Silicon Valley has been churning out are trivial.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

has become a Mecca for international scientists, engineers and business students — particularly those undertaking graduate studies. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. America fosters risk-taking and innovation by entrepreneurs who become global leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Think like a large-scale entrepreneur. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. A mismatch between the founders' visions should not be one.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Women entrepreneurs, coders, social networkers and computer engineers alike can find particular pride and inspiration of these 5 women below. She was also voted the #1 most influential person in 2011 Silicon Alley 100 this year. This Internet entrepreneur and business executive is currently the Chief Operating Office at.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He also attended MIT, where he received 3 degrees: a Masters in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. Here’s his impact: Sal holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was the president of his class. in Mathematics. Laura Dean 11.29.10

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” You can’t] create a boat that has an engine, is a row boat and a sailboat all in one.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Some entrepreneurs don’t even get to the point of creating their own business. Even though I had been working with entrepreneurs since 2005, and I had created my own Company in 2011, I was still afraid of being totally free to work on my dream. The result is that only a small portion of startups survive in the long term.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2011

In other words, if you want to increase your revenue, reverse-engineer your successful sales. The reverse-engineering approach addresses and solves the problems we face in today’s rapidly changing markets. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Now there is a book which makes the growth planning process simple and practical,&# said Stephen Linnemann, VP at Burns & McDonnell Engineering. Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. This book is a must read for every team member where leadership is committed to growth. Make conversation with your team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The company had five years of growth experience and nearly 200 employees; most important, it was run by an aggressive local internet entrepreneur, Zhou Hongyi. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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