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Maybe You’re an Entrepreneur After All

Lead Change Blog

They watch the highlight reels of great leaders and think: “I’m no entrepreneur like [insert name here].” As much as they want to take the leap on the inside, many leaders resist because their definition of entrepreneur is just too narrow. You don’t have to make it big in business to be an entrepreneur.

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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

Nadella championed numerous innovation programs, including allocating physical spaces for Microsoft employees to work with local entrepreneurs, creating accelerators to incubate new businesses, and hosting a global hackathon that became one of the largest innovation events in the world. 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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Disabled Women Succeeding as Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

It was assumed that the term ‘entrepreneurship with disabilities’ was an oxymoron…today thousands of people with disabilities are dispelling these myths by starting wildly successful businesses of all kinds.” ” - Disability & Entrepreneurship: A Formula for Success. The Abilities Fund, Inc.

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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.