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On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry
"We think it takes a lot of balls to destroy what you have in order to make room for the new. Even if we fail, at least we gave it a shot. But hopefully, we won't."
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Guy Kawasaki offers up some tips.
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"I wanted to be a billionaire," says the man responsible for your Jagermeister headache. At age 85 he stunned the liquor industry by getting his wish."
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"'If you want to send a message' in Hollywood, the saying goes, 'call Western Union.' Don't tell that to entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll. With 11 Oscar nominations for cause-driven work . . he's proving that it pays to be pointed."
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The Obvious Corp - Evan and Biz Take Back Odeo
The greening of The Valley, why sustainable companies matter.
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The 20 smartest companies to start now
"Howard Schultz, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, and other major investors are sharing their best startup ideas. And they're willing to give a collective $100 Million to the entrepreneurs who can make them happen."
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"Winning� isn’t a zero sum game. This isn’t a 100 yard dash or a boxing match or a F1 race. It’s building a sustainable business. There’s lots of room for lots of those."
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"If I'm right that the defining advantage of insiders is an audience, then we live in exciting times, because just in the last ten years the Internet has made audiences a lot more liquid."
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The Top 10 Questions Investors Asked Us
"If you’ve never met with angels or VCs and are curious as to what they might want to know, here is a list of the more common questions we fielded."
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"These are basically little nuggets of wisdom for bite-sized nutrition."
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Issues Entrepreneurs Face as their Businesses Grow
"Growth also creates challenges for the entrepreneur. Here are some of the more common issues that entrepreneurs wrestle with as their business grows."
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Guy Kawasaki's tips for naming a copmany or product.
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Guy Kawasaki: "The art of recruiting is the purest form of evangelism because you're not simply asking people to try your product, buy your product, or partner with you. Instead, you are asking them to bet their lives on your organization."
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"Most teams (or start-ups) have some kind of written charter, even if it’s just a beat up e-mail, for what the over-arching goals are supposed to be. Why are they often so bad?"
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Thinking about the Stanford marshmellow experiment, which showed that "Delayed gratification seemes to play a significant part in success," and considering what that means for entrepreneurship.
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"The Printable CEO (PCEO) is a form I made to focus my time productively. For me, that means concentrating on making my freelance business sustainable and fun."
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Guy Kawasaki's nine tips for creating a business plan.
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Five good tips for pitching your business to anyone, not just VCs.
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Guy Kawasaki's 9 rules of innovation. My favorite line: "Innovation is not an event. It's a process."
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"The myth of The Great Idea is a dangerous one. It makes you constantly search and search for something that you'll probably never find."
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Small Biz 101: Tips for Increasing Sales
A business needs sales to survive. Tips for someone just starting out on how to do it.
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A Guide to Starting Your Business
"In an attempt to reduce the number of frustrating hours searching the web for what you need, we’ve written this article to help you with the small business paperwork, the basics of accounting, and an overview of some legal considerations."
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10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small
Rajesh Setty: "There was a discussion a few months ago on whether being small had its advantages - agility, speed etc. My response then was that it all depends and I stick to the same opinion even today."
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Nick Denton lists the tools he uses.
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Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)
Michael Arrington from TechCrunch thinks about the companies he'd like to see sprout up around the net. Lots of good ideas in this one.
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With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet.
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When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?
"The minute we saw this equation from the other side we knew what we had to do. Without realizing it, we had already built the audience, now we needed to create a product for it. “If they come, you will build it.�"
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10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
"1. Solve the smallest possible problem (that is still big enough to matter) for the user and know exactly what problem you're trying to solve. "
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Killer resources for entrepreneurs
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How one company transforms its employees into entrepreneurs.
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It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur
Bnoopy: "There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. "
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"This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching . . ."
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Twenty-Six Entrepreneurs We Love
Martha Stewart tops the INC Magazine list
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