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10 Things Every New Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Business

Strategy Driven

So you want to be an entrepreneur? Why is the Entrepreneur Lifestyle so Alluring? The appeal of the entrepreneur lifestyle is easy to understand. The entrepreneur lifestyle also offers the opportunity to forge your own path and create something that is truly your own. Being an entrepreneur is a lot of work.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

You do that by setting up structures that notice, encourage, and develop innovative ideas and practices. Learn more at innovativeleaderbook.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * * It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. You know this company.

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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

The real issue here is that if an entrepreneur comes in to a pitch and goes on and on about how they’re going to build a billion dollar company in just a few years, most investors eyes tend to glaze over. Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology.

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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year. It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today.

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The Entrepreneur’s Faces: 10 Entrepreneurial Types and Their Journey

Leading Blog

T HE leadership we need now can be found in the entrepreneurial mindset—the characteristics found in entrepreneurs. Authors Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp have categorized the nature of this mindset into ten types or faces in The Entrepreneur’s Faces. The Arc illustrates seven stages that all entrepreneurs pass through.

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Research Explores The Best Way To Crowdfund

The Horizons Tracker

While crowdfunding doesn’t attract quite the attention that it used to, it remains an important way for entrepreneurs to raise money. Research from the University of Kansas explores the best way for entrepreneurs to succeed in their fundraising ambitions. Raising funds. “But we found it might not always be the case. .”

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Entrepreneurs Operating System (EOS) Lacks Traction

CO2

It has become a source is frustration to me working with Entrepreneurs and hearing those three letters together E.O.S. Entrepreneurs Operating System). Then a training model to develop consultants nation wide to deliver the product. When the entrepreneur has an ability within the system to add BOULDERS, ROCKs, ACTIONS, Etc.