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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. .

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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

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Boeing’s leadership made some terrible decisions to cover up problems and rush production of the 737 Max. Good decision making is the essence of successful leadership, which is why the term “leader” is often equated to “decision-maker.” Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step.

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7 Reasons You Don’t Want to Start a Business With Friends

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Of course, to solve this, you can look for professionals to add to your team, but what use are your friends then? With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego. He is a professional writer who focuses on blogging, digital marketing and self-education.

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EO Entrepreneurs Share Strategies for Failure-Proofing Small Business

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So much of an entrepreneur’s success relies on figuring out your true target prospect, the right pricing, and the winning product mix. Join an executive group: It empowers you to develop leadership skills and knowledge, which is nearly impossible to do alone. Linger before launching your small business. “So

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From Solo Entrepreneur to Franchisor: 20 Years of Business Growth With EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This unfortunate mix of personal and professional concerns made me feel alone in my struggles. That role deepened my understanding of leadership and group dynamics in ways I couldn’t have learned from a book or a coach. I used to suffer from imposter syndrome , feeling like I was less than my fellow entrepreneurs.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.