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6 Surprising Parallels Between Entrepreneurship and Crisis PR

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It’s all about managing perceptions. If employees are unhappy about how things are handled or communicated , it’s on us as company leaders and crisis managers to fix it. You fight to guard your time. Crises are no respecters of time. and more articles from the EO blog. . “Hold on.

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14 EO Members Share The Best Thing About Entrepreneurship

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Opportunity to Fix What’s Broken. But the greatest is the opportunity to fix what’s broken. Even if you started with a vision that was a bit selfish, over time your vision becomes about the people who work for you to make your dream a reality. Freedom of Time. Entrepreneurship is an innately iterative process.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. I think it’s a mistake for a startup to fix upon a specific number. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

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But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. Our timing was brutal: the Box S-1 coincided with the start of a major market correction for SaaS stocks, and our newly revealed financials made us a natural poster company for that change in sentiment. Enter Box.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). But try getting the time of the A players. I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. So I ask them for a “fixed&# budget.

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4 Reasons You Should Not Be Streaming Music at Your Business

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Never before could we carry millions of songs in our back pockets and match playlists to our mood, at any time we desire. A good instore music programmer, knows precisely how variables such as music tempo, emotional charge, complexity, genre and familiarity affect consumer perception and behavior. Any music is not the right music!

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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People form perceptions of you whether you like it or not. It was the midst of a recession and I was happy to have any job at all let alone what was considered one of the more prestigious business jobs at the time graduating from UCSD. My starting salary was $27,000. That was fine with me – the market is the market.