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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Entrepreneurial success hinges on generating breakthrough ideas. In the book Alien Thinking , three innovation professors at IMD Business School argue that people who generate truly breakthrough ideas look at their world like aliens–outsiders unburdened by the assumptions, biases and conventional thinking that constrain imagination.

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Logic of the Lemmings: Making sense of the VC pile-ons

This is going to be BIG.

Not only do you need a great team, a great idea, and be fishing in a big enough pond, but often times you also need some serious unfair advantages. They got into a Twitter conversation that lasted a full six minutes. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

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Logic of the Lemmings: Making sense of the VC pile-ons

This is going to be BIG.

Not only do you need a great team, a great idea, and be fishing in a big enough pond, but often times you also need some serious unfair advantages. They got into a Twitter conversation that lasted a full six minutes. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Boards shouldn’t assume that situations are broadly applicable but by introducing views from experience across many companies this should give executives ideas they may not have seen on their own. This should all be handled outside the board meeting.

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The Ideal Pitch Deck is a Story, a Science, and an Art

StartupNation

It needs to do that in under 4 minutes. In “The Social Network,” it’s when this coding, viral platform genius that we’ve been introduced to, gets presented with the Harvard Connect idea by the Winklevii and decides to steal it. That’s why we always encourage decks that can be wholly consumed in 4 minutes.

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Running a remote-first startup: Do’s and Don’ts

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. We found that the tricks we learned and that are listed in this blog post are applicable in both of these contexts. We help startup founders, product managers, business analysts, and UX professionals demonstrate their product ideas easily.

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Enterprise automation: What it is and how to get started

The Zapier Blog

In this guide, I'll break down what enterprise automation really means, the challenges that make it harder than it should be, and how large organizations are using it to work faster with control and confidence. And when you apply the idea to larger businesses and teams, it gets even fuzzier.

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