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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

Having worked with more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, hobbyists and side hustlers, they often struggle with when it is appropriate to leap from the job environment into the entrepreneurship maze. The presumption is that one has to sacrifice entrepreneurial dreams in order to be successful at a specific career choice.

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Burn the Business Plan

Leading Blog

Most entrepreneurs never went to college, and most did not start their companies until they were well along in their careers. Many entrepreneurs who started their own careers in large corporations regarded them as critical to their subsequent success. Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. The reason?

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

Stephen Curry has built his NBA career on taking shots that others don’t: three-pointers from a crazy distance. Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. Yesterday" is a sunk cost.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Listening, engaging, reciprocating – have earned us 2 billionaire backers, 4000+ franchising inquiries & 300+ stores now in development (launched franchise company in Fall '09). Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. Long road ahead.

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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? We’re working with unprecedented levels of data. I would actually argue that this is pretty far off base.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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