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Entrepreneurs Relish The Challenge More Than Money

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Image via Flickr (Creative Commons). Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. No matter how much advice and counsel you have been given, I guarantee that you will encounter new challenges daily, to enhance your learning opportunities. Read entrepreneur stories.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. It’s awesome.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I see too many people who do that.

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

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Actually, this is usually the same advice I give people about recruiters, accountants, lawyers and similar trade professionals. You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows. There is one carve out.

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Pacific Kids’ Learning

NZ Entrepreneur

As a creative tech employer, we are committed to growing our local economies by providing job opportunities and promoting a career in creative technology. My understanding of the creative industry and production processes prompted a strong sense of urgency. What programmes, learning or mentoring have been of assistance so far?

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Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?

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As I wrote in Part I of this post , many of the most creative and disruptive startup businesses in recent years have involved the use of intellectual property in innovative, non-traditional ways that defy easy categorization and stretch the boundaries of concepts such as the fair use doctrine in copyright. Rose likes Gust.