Entrepreneurship

Value Proposition Design: Jobs, Pains, & Gains with Mark Lowenstein

By Rhys E. Probyn, Co-Founder of Cape and Islands Clambake Company

In this week’s session Mark Lowenstein challenged us (literally) to take a deep dive into the minds of our customers and use the insights we discover as the basis…

“The 2018 Bitcoin Crystal Ball”

75 Bitcoin Experts Share Their Informed Predictions About What Will…

Facebook’s Mantra Is “Join Us or We’ll Copy You”

On platforms, marketplaces, and playing with fire

How To Be The Person Everybody Remembers.

Four years ago I committed to stop being mediocre and start living an extraordinary…

Financial Innovation vs FinTech

So much has been said about FinTech that leads me to believe there is a commonly misunderstood concept: that FinTech is synonymous with Financial Innovation. It isn’t quite the same and here I will briefly touch upon the following topics:

What makes a great app?

Top 10 things to know

“What makes a great app?”

The 12-Month Evolution of a Digital Product Pricing Strategy: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

How I Built a 2,189 follower Instagram Referral Machine [in 60 days]

Your brand is not what you think it is

On November 27th, I missed my flight to Bali.

My Biggest F-up of 2017: Chasing Shiny Innovation

Don’t Be Mediocre: 5 Quick Ideas to Improve Your Email Writing Skill

Was This The Exact Moment in History Creative People Got Screwed?

Entrepreneurs, Not Institutions, Drive Big Innovation

Section 2 of “Reinventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology” which will be release end of January. I will be posting a new section daily. Please share your feedback as this is a work in progress.

The Truth Is Beautiful: Better Yet, It’s Phenomenal

Waking up Early and Cultivating My Morning Routine

This One Daily Habit Will Make You Who You Want To Become

The Four Biggest Mistakes People Make

Eighteen years of Wall Street taught me a lot about mistakes.

18 Hong Kong startups to watch in 2018 (Part 3)

3 Simple Steps to Unstoppable Charisma

We all want to be more charismatic.

Do you have a great idea? We have a strong tech team and looking to build our 2nd product.

5 simple ways to become a multi billionaire.

Let me ask you this. Did you click on this article believing I would share…

How To Thrive, Not Just Survive, Without a Startup VP of Engineering

Rapid Fire: 21 Questions with Alumni

With Michael Narea, EPIC Co-Founder

Michael Narea graduated in 2014 from McCormick and helped to form the initial EPIC team. He is an avid ocean enthusiast who believes that with the right support, mindset, and accessible pathways every…

Apply now — special event with Reid Hoffman at Entrepreneur First on 17 January in London

5 Signs You’re A “Wanna-preneur” & Not An Entrepreneur

Meet the rocket scientist who now invests in start-ups

Listen to our latest podcast to discover why…

2018 Will Not Be Easy On You, But That’s The Best Part

Deep Space Ventures — Two Years In (by the Numbers)

Lessons learned in my first 2 years as a first…

Want to become a successful leader? Think and act like one

What I learnt in 2017, and 7 Trends to Watch in 2018

What to Leave Behind in 2017 for a Better 2018

Why I love Investor Update Emails

At Storm, we mostly invest in Series A companies. But because of that, I spend a lot of time meeting…

5 Examples of Veterans Who Leveraged Their Military Experience To Become Successful Entrepreneurs

One (1) Radical plan to win 2018.

The words you need, to stop wishing and start doing!!!

Jamie Foxx’s “White Famous” Starring Jay Pharoah Canceled

The way we wrote: 10 favorite things I made in 2017 (+ the stories behind them)

Finding design advice 101

Why quelling the fear and reaching out is easier than you think

Advice from 1517: How Do I Manage Employees Older Than Myself?

Goal Get It!

Aligning You, Family, and Service

Make your resolution to help small businesses with these 5 easy (and free) practices

How I found a Millionaire Mentor for free in an hour

Happy New Year! 20% Tax Break for Entrepreneurs & Self-Employed in New Tax Law

Hey entrepreneurs and self-employed friends, we just got a raise and incentive to GROW in 2018.

Let’s Not Use that “Henry Ford” Quote to Be Lazy Innovators

Why I Write A Letter To Myself Every 90 Days

Yesterday I wrote a letter to future Turndog.
I wrote it to the version of me 90…

Le Wagon Tokyo — First Year Anniversary

2018 is around the corner and it is already time for us to look back to our first and…

Reach for the stars. Eight years since my first iOS application Rockstar Solos.

Habit #6 for 2018: Zero Your Inbox and Feel Good Everyday

An Entrepreneurial Health-Warning

I started my entrepreneurial journey around a year ago. Prompted by the start of 2017 and…

Selling the Impossible or the Art of Bad Sales Strategy

Can We Trust Business?

And will 2018 see the ascendency of human brands?

MY APPS AVEC LES FONDATEURS DE L’APPLICATION JUBILY

I asked hundreds of people how they stay motivated at work

Here’s what they said…

100 Years of Votes for Women. How Far Have We Come?

First of all, I want to wish you a Happy New Year — I hope you are looking forward to an exciting 2018…

Finding Your Win for 2018

Borrow a Strategic Tool from the Corporate World.

Reflections on 2017, and ambitions for the future

Redefining Success Through Mindful Leadership

The moment our eyelids flutter open in the morning is the moment cortisol (the body’s primary stress hormone) begins flooding through our body. Our chest…

Why the 1% will no longer be the “1%”

Let us first explore the obvious: Nothing last forever, right? We know this is inevitable and…

My Grandma-Triggered Technology Realization

I recently witnessed my 87 year-old nonna (“grandma” for all you non-Italians) on a…

Twofold competition

I am a fan of competition, the good competition that shapes the superlative version of a market and fuels badassery in each of us. I have respect for the competitive exclusion principle that indicates the species less suited to compete for resources should either adapt or die out. As cold as…

Join us — or eat dust

One day, I got an email from a small company in Mountain View and they wanted to see me to talk more about YesLLama LLC…

Forged Pokemon cards, a Massage Monopoly, and a Fraudulent Bracelet Enterprise

An anthology of my…

Innovation in Action: Interview with CIIE’s Chief Innovation Officer — Sanjay Jain

What #sportstech entrepreneurs were reading in 2017

Insights from 15 podcast interviews

What I have learnt from my failed startup…

First thing i would like to highlight is “Seed funding”. Before going for actual fund…

Creativity does not occur in a vacuum. It is not a talent. It is an aptitude for exploration and experimentation, a passion to draw upon a wide canvas of human experience.

A creative mind is a curious mind. Only a curious mind can spot novelty when it sees it.

8 Ways to Kick Ass and be a Better Leader in 2018

Survivorship bias

During the Second World War, researchers were trying to minimize airplane losses from the enemy fire. They have analyzed planes that have returned from the missions, and reinforced the parts of them that were the most damaged. Surprisingly, this change did not make any difference, the amount of…

Plans are like eggs — delicate, full of potential, and pretty until cracked.

My 2017 Year-in-Review

YesLLama LLC. 2015–2017

This short post is a summary of my ongoing journey so far with the LLama project. I think it’s a good practice to…

19 Inspirational Quotes That’ll Reshape Your Year

your work-life balance is not for you

Startup founders have to be obsessive and whilst I try to maintain a balance, I let things slip. Yesterday I learned a lesson (again).

The last few months (well 6 really) I’d stopped doing yoga, deadlifts, squats, pull-ups — I was…

Never doubt yourself, your tenacity or your purpose.

What if you’re wrong.

How To Own Your Own Business in 2018: The 5 Excuses Stopping You from Success

Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith Will Speak At Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2018

The event will be held at the Salt Palace in SLC on January 18–19.

How can you overcome failure and fulfill your dreams?

‘Learn from those around you and work to make yourself better’

Are You Ready to Start a Commercial Cleaning Business?

One question to ask yourself to see if you’re ready

You Never Know Until YOU Try

Other people can’t make decisions for you.

Qualtrics Head Of Information Security David Cawley Will Speak At Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2018

The event will be held at the Salt Palace in SLC on January 18–19.

@neal4.0

I’m beginning my 40th year in 2018. My 2017 focus was to adopt a growth mindset and I can say I have achieved it. Earlier this year, I wrote a post titled “Allow me to re-introduce myself” about it on LinkedIn. It’s been a successful/failure/easy/hard process of shedding a fixed mindset, spending time in a…

La importancia de decir que no: la vida como un juego de póker

Entrata CEO Dave Bateman Will Speak At Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2018

The event will be held at the Salt Palace in SLC on January 18–19.

Bootstrapping Basics: A Step-by-Step Guide to Gleaning Insight from Free Public Company Filings

Here is all you need to know about the 10X rule.

Gary’s Words, My Thoughts & One Month. Here’s What I Learned.

“Skills are cheap, passion is priceless”

Week 41 Retrospective

New Year, New Beginnings

I’ve been idly thinking about how to continue to make this retro process more valuable to myself for a while now. Now that’s a New Year, it feels like a good time to try some changes.

Why WeWork and Meetup Are a Perfect Match — and What Other Companies Can Learn From Them

On Being a Selfish Entrepreneur

How many of you are yearning to start that passion project that keeps you up at night?

2018 In No Uncertain Terms

10 things we’ll say to usher in an honorable year.

As a business called Honor Code, we make a resolution daily, not yearly: to be honorable in our work and actions. But year-end is a perfect time to renew it with an actual…

InsideSales CEO Dave Elkington Will Speak At Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2018

The event will be held at the Salt Palace in SLC on January 18–19.

Glad to see people talking about platform strategy beyond just SaaS companies and app marketplaces. Amazon is the perfect example, and they’re not shy about how they apply it:

“If you don’t know anything about the business, launch it through the marketplace, bring retailers in, watch what they do and what they sell…

My experiment with 12months12books

One of my last year’s resolution was to read 12 books in a year. I am glad that I undertook this challenge and completed it before the end of the year.

For a person like me who hardly reads a book or 2 in a year, this was not an easy feat. The…

Here is what my 3 month break from my business taught me

(This is an excerpt from a social media post).

When You Commit You Can Either Have Fun Or Do This Instead

There are no men’s and women’s businesses: just business.

Would you tell Nicki Minaj that she is a great “woman rapper” or rapper in general?

You’re already becoming less successful…because success makes you less teachable

Our brains are designed to find patterns…

How to create a project

Starting a new project can be at the same time challenging and tough. There are a number of issues a new entrepreneur…

Leadership Lessons from a dancing guy !

Some of you might have already seen the below video. It is about a dancing guy who…

The current state of the internet is the best way to describe Digital Marketing as we know it today. The changeable market has no boundaries to the measures of success you can…

How To Get More Business

New Year, More Business

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