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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs must be creative enough to innovate, disciplined enough to stay focused, resourceful enough to do more with less, and bold enough to take calculated risks. Creativity & Innovation Thinking outside the box to develop unique products, services, or business models. Why Is an Entrepreneurial Mindset Important?

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.

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Building Business Community: Focus on Cooperation, Not Competition

Entrepreneur's Handbook

From my experience, the business community can strengthen its every member if we build it on cooperation, not competition. Competition can drive creativity if we look at it healthily. For instance, in 2008, UPS agreed to ship DHL’s packages (because DHL couldn’t do it at the time and asked a competitor for help).

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress.

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5

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Yes Is the Answer—and Other Ways to Succeed in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

You believe that leaders should embrace their culture and values more deeply in a crisis and cite the 2008 Great Recession as an example. What are your innovative and creative approaches to attract millennials and turn them into “raving fans?”. I have learned that mental capital is just as valuable as financial and physical capital.

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20 Women Entrepreneurs Changing Their Industries (and the World)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

And while there’s a long way to go in terms of workplace equality, women entrepreneurs are making their mark on their industries and communities now more than ever. A classically trained pastry chef, Christina Tosi spent years in New York City restaurants before founding Milk Bar in 2008. Christina Tosi / Milk Bar.