Sat.Feb 03, 2018 - Fri.Feb 09, 2018

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3 Keys to Navigating the Entrepreneurial Maze

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Mike Monroe. “Nobody trusts a person who fails a lot,” he said matter-of-factly. “So you might want to be careful whom you tell about your grandiose plans to take over the world.” My mentor’s advice felt like a parental reprimand. Up until that point, I had been the consummate visionary: the guy with a million and one plans but nothing to show for them.

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Take only “smart money” investments

Berkonomics

Close. This statement could be considered controversial. We have previously made the case that professional investors demand more in the form of restrictive covenants and lower valuations. Now we explore the other side of that coin. Professional investors usually bring “smart money” to the table, defined as money that comes along with good advice and great relationships for corporate growth.

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Expanding Your Time Horizon To Scale Your Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

When a startup takes form, the first weeks and months and years are spent furiously. The team assembles itself. The lightbulb illuminates. It is formed and reformed again and again as customers supply feedback. Eventually the team hews the right product. The startup raises capital. Then the team returns focus to hiring, evolving the product, and closing customers.

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Why you need a database

Derek Sivers

A database is just an organized collection of information. You could have a database of your music or your books. But I’m going to talk about a database of all the people you know. Your email app is a kind of database. It has an address book of everyone you’ve emailed, and a history of your emails with each person. So you’ve already done half of what I’m going to describe here.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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My Top 6 Growth Hacks

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Miranda Naiman, accidental entrepreneur, motivational speaker, organizational development practitioner, writer, and founder of Empower Limited , a Tanzanian human capital consultancy firm. I officially took the plunge about nine years ago. I resigned from my beloved job and leaped into the unknown to launch my company, Empower. If I could fly back in time to Empower’s start-up phase and give my younger self advice, I would offer these six thoughts. 1.

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Shed your money taboos.

Derek Sivers

Everyone has weird mental associations with money. They think the only way to make money is to take it away from others. They think that charging for your art means it was insincere, and only for profit. But after knowing thousands of musicians for over twenty years, I’ve learned this: The unhappiest musicians are the ones who avoided the subject of money, and are now broke or need a draining day job.