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Structured for Success

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Neen James, motivational speaker and attention expert. . Meetings. Events. Deadlines. Customers. How does a person get it all done—and still have room in the calendar for all the “good stuff” like family, friends and personal time? Impossible? Not at all. The trick is structure, a little strategy and a system that works specifically for you. No two business and no two people are alike, so defining the structure that allows you to work at your highest potential without the fear of burnout is v

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Vision for your future success is EVERYTHING!

Berkonomics

I love absolute statements. And this is one of my favorites. You’re at the ignition stage of your newest business venture. Of course, you have a vision for what you will do to change the world. Let’s stress test that vision and sharpen it further to help insure your success. First, if your vision is limited and you will be happy with a successful local dry cleaning enterprise or small restaurant around the corner, you are not the target for this effort to help entrepreneurs build great busine

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Startup Best Practices 25 - Bounding the Unknown Unknowns

Tomasz Tunguz

Intel’s Business Plan. Every once in a while, I receive a FedEx from an entrepreneur I haven’t met. Inevitably, this mail contains a modern rarity - a business plan. Ten to twenty pages describing the idea, the genesis, the business model, the team and its structure, customer acquisition strategy, sales model and other key details of the business.

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Entrepreneurs, Let’s Talk About Letting People Go the Right Way

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of O2E Brands. Firing is just as important as hiring, so why do we rarely get it right? One of the hardest things I had to do was fire my best friend and 1-800-GOT-JUNK?’s COO in 2007. We were both “visionaries”—full of big ideas and blue-sky dreams. But neither of us were “integrators”—people who turn dreams into actionable plans, and turn those plans into reality.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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MyEO Spotlight: Wine and Dine in Washington, D.C.

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Greg McDonough , EO DC member. While attending the 2016 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in Bangkok , my wife, Monique, and I had the good fortune of experiencing a MyEO wine dinner. Individuals were asked to cover the cost of their own food, as well as supply a bottle of wine with a 95+ rating. The goal was to enjoy a range of new wine, shared through a series of small pours.

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Benchmarking Cloudera's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tomasz Tunguz

Cloudera is the second of the Hadoop players to go public. Last week, the company filed their S-1 and revealed a massive business. Cloudera generated $261M in revenue, counts 500 clients and grows those accounts by 43% annually. 18% of their customers run Cloudera software in the cloud, a surprisingly large number. Hortonworks is Cloudera’s chief competitor.

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