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Are Older Entrepreneurs The Best Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

Classes range from using social media to processing payments for their new website. Indeed, venture capitalist Paul Graham once quipped that he rarely backed any entrepreneur older than 32. Many open businesses aimed at the older market, with the shorter horizon acting as a key motivator behind their efforts.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. ” Firms are hesitant to socialize ideas with business partners, customers, or media before they’re considered polished enough for an official launch. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline.

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Technological Know-How Is a Job Requirement

Harvard Business Review

Yet with 67% of surveyed brand managers planning to launch social media campaigns in the next 12 months, community managers are now amongst the most sought after marketing professionals. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.".

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. Learn more about how she uses social media.

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Ten Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network

Harvard Business Review

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. Learn more about how he or she uses social media. Start a LinkedIn or Facebook group.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

It’s a line that venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has trotted out a few times lately, attributing it to his former colleague Jim Barksdale. The way I think about it is — at least in the world that I work in, sort of tech and Internet media — bundles emerge as a consequence of the current technology.

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