Tag: entrepreneur

  • So, You Waited ‘Til the Last Minute? 15 Great Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Entrepreneur.

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    Thanks, internet, for offering up these companies’ innovative products, passionate founders and ethical missions! There’s nothing like finding the perfect holiday present. As a tech entrepreneur and investor on Dragons’ Den, I’ve been lucky enough to work with some of the most innovative ecommerce companies around. Every day, it seems, I learn about a new product that […]

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  • The 1 Marketing Technique That Really, Actually Works

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    Nearly every professional marketer I know is searching, all the time, for a sleek and innovative new marketing technique that might win them clients quickly and easily — a silver bullet, essentially, which might give them a leg up over the competition. But allow me to let you in on a little secret: silver bullet solutions don’t […]

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  • Stop Viewing Work as ‘Trading Time for Money’

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    Instead, think like an entrepreneur About a month before I graduated college, it dawned on me that I needed to get a real job. Like, soon. Even though I had 22 years to process this fact, it still blindsided me. Perhaps a lifetime in an educational system built for the Industrial Age had done little […]

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  • What Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues Taught Me About Leading a Company — and 6 Tips All Entrepreneurs Should Practice

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        Franklin’s ideas provide a powerful blueprint for building a successful gaming company — or any kind of initiative. Benjamin Franklin is a role model for anyone building a gaming company. He was brilliant. A live mind. Creative. Consider his magic square, one of the original American games. It’s a Sudoku master’s dream — and […]

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  • The Case for Disconnecting and Traveling as an Entrepreneur

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    Yes, it’s imperative to work your butt off, but, although it may seem counter-intuitive, it’s also vital to drop everything and travel. I just got back from my honeymoon to Egypt and the Seychelles islands, and it was life-changing. As I flew and traveled to my various destinations, I thought about traveling as an entrepreneur […]

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  • Startup Exit Lessons From The Way Michael Jackson Purchased Neverland Ranch

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    By Patrick Hall In 1987, a representative of Michael Jackson approached the modest Sycamore Valley ranch house and knocked on the door. The owner of the ranch was shocked by the visitor’s message. He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market […]

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  • Is ICO Dead? How to Work in the ICO 2.0 Era (Forecast Inside)

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    ICO hype took its last breath in July and the market is finally becoming more clever, providing a great opportunity for real projects with real ideas. The ICO 2.0 era is finally here. We at agency.howtotoken.com have started a platform that aims to achieve the following goals: Make prices for ICO services transparent Build a network of […]

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  • Find a place for your stuff

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    And that place might be social media Much like the late comedian George Carlin, Gene Petrov wanted “a place for my stuff.” For Petrov, that locale was online. “I found my place on social media and you can too,” he said. Petrov taught himself social media and marketing. Now he runs his namesake Gene Petrov Leadership and Marketing Consulting. […]

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  • The United States of Brand-Building

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    By Laura Desmond On bone saws, Khashoggi, and foreign policy Editor’s Note: No Mercy/No Malice is a column from Professor Scott Galloway, where he shares various reflections on business, tech, and life each week. Feelings are biochemical mechanisms that all mammals and birds use in order to quickly calculate probabilities of survival and reproduction. Feelings […]

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  • 3 Ways to Clarify Your Authentic Personal Brand and Why You Need To

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    Being ‘authentic’ is not just a nice idea, but something that has a massive effect on your health, mental state and even longevity. As well as that, developing a strong sense of your own authentic brand unleashes you onto the world in a wonderful new way. That is, if you do it right. It has […]

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