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How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Employees

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You know that employees benefit from constructive feedback. Still, it’s hard to deliver effective feedback. Follow this feedback primer to practice delivering effective criticism. 3 TYPES OF FEEDBACK: Positive: “You’re doing a great job in this area.” Descriptive— Give facts.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” ” His argument is as follows.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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I had called on Chamillionaire from the audience and asked him to provide some views on how artists view social media, why they use it and where it’s heading. As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. He was riveting.

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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

Yet, everyone’s got an opinion about how a company measures up, especially the founder. ( So, how do you know what truth is? I wrote about how “ both things can be true ” here. Today, I want to write about how to measure how likely you are to get funded, especially when compared to other companies.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. That's right--Indiana.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Rinse & repeat. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. You have a hunch. This is total bullshit.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A As a practitioner of creativity rather than as an instructor of it I’m certain that there are many ways to get the creative juices flowing and how to release more creativity. The one that works best for me is visualization coupled with self talk.