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Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. Without the right people in the right seats who live by your core values and culture, you won’t be able to deliver to your ideal client. In addition to high-level conferences, where else can you meet CEOs?

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How to Accelerate Valuation Growth in Services Businesses

Paul G. Silva

Some companies create innovation divisions… only to discover that the high-risk approach needed there is incompatible with the company’s failure-averse culture. This approach lets you get wins on the board quickly, building momentum to effect larger and larger culture change to facilitate ever greater innovation & impact.

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3 Ways Your Company Can Live By Its Core Values

Entrepreneurs' Organization

And when they do, they are rarely embedded in the culture. We were not always all that great at hiring people who fit our culture. Although our Core Value Awards come with a prize, I have realized it is less about the prize and more about creating a culture of authenticity where people know and live by our values.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

In a deeply researched report for TechCrunch+ , reporter Christine Hall examined the state of the cell-cultured meat industry and identified many of the startups innovating in the sector, along with the challenges they face when it comes to ramping up production and getting regulators and consumers on their side. “We yourprotagonist.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners Drives Innovation with Strategic Investments in Four Promising Enterprises

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

At the recent March board meeting, Ben Franklin CNP approved investments in the following companies: Lightscline , located in State College: Lightscline pioneers lightweight AI technology aimed at revolutionizing sensor data analytics.

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How to Move Beyond Resolutions to Sustainable New Habits

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Visualize Your Goals: As part of an annual tradition, we started off January 1 in my family by making family vision boards. A vision board is a great way to document your goals for the year and keep those objectives front of mind. Make A “Stop Doing” List: Achievement is not about doing more.

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NJEDA Hosts Diversity Finance Advisory Board Meeting, Convening Diverse Group of Entrepreneurs and Investors

American Entrepreneurship

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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