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Why the Most Successful People Have the Most Haters- John Brubaker

25Dec By No Comments

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Why the Most Successful People Have the Most Haters- John Brubaker

Picture yourself standing in the middle of a crowded stadium. You’re in the heat of competition in front of 100,000 screaming fans, and at least half of them aren’t cheering for you. Some of that 50 percent even hate you. They don’t just hate you, they are letting you know why and precisely how much they despise you. Maybe even with disgusting comments about your family. You actually enter into your own personal version of that stadium every day in the sport of business. They’re called haters, and you probably don’t have enough of them. That’s right, you read that correctly. I am suggesting you need more haters. Why? Because there's a direct correlation between the amount of success you enjoy and the number of haters you have. Many experts will tell you that if you want to achieve greatn...

Talko, a mobile app for business team communications acquired by Microsoft

23Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Talko, a mobile app for business team communications acquired by Microsoft

Microsoft has acquired Former Microsoft chief architect Ray Ozzie project Talko. Talko allows you to create multiperson conversations that combine voice, text and photos all laid out over an evolving timeline. Talko Features - Amazing things can happen when we talk with each other. Thoughts are shared, ideas formed and problems solved. Talko is the best way to use your voice to get things done. Talk: Voice is the fastest and clearest way for people to communicate. Talk when and how you want – live or not. Share: Photos bring conversations to life. By tapping the camera to share as you talk, others will instantly see what you see. Do: Use voice to get things done. Organize, find, replay and share key moments using tags and bookmarks. About the Deal I am pleased ...

The 4 Questions You Need to Ask When Starting a Business

12Dec By No Comments

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The 4 Questions You Need to Ask When Starting a Business

So you decided you want to be an entrepreneur. There are high failure rates, the nonstop work, and if you’re one of the lucky few whose business takes off, you get to shoulder the responsibility of other people’s livelihood depending on you. Of course, there is the flexibility to work when you choose, the perk of being your own boss, and the rewarding feeling of building something meaningful. You’ve weighed the pros and the cons and are convinced that being an entrepreneur is the way to go. But now you’re probably wondering, what type of business do I start? Here are the four questions I would suggest you consider before deciding what type of business you want to start: 1. Why are you deciding to start the business? This is the most important question to answer before you...

8Dec By No Comments

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Idea vs the leader: Who is the winner?

The Success of a startup depends on a brilliant idea as well as an inspiring leader. In fact, most of the times, it leans towards the leader because the ‘idea’ of the startup is taken for granted. For an angel investor or a venture capitalist, ‘idea’ or the business viability is a necessary condition to allocate even their time to listen but the ‘leader’ and team the leader builds or intends to build turn out to be sufficient conditions to invest. Building a team and sustaining it is essential to demonstrate one’s leadership and is desired the most in the context of a startup. How the Apple visionary Steve Jobs lured John Sculley in 1983 to leave Pepsi and join Apple to change the world and how N. R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys kept faith in the company and did not accept to sell Infosys...

4Dec By No Comments

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Don’t Forget Your Failures

There is a lot of emphasis on succeeding. And whether we buy the hype or not, we all want to succeed, especially if you consider success as "it works out the way I want it to." You know it feels good in the gut and in the heart because it worked out. So failing by that definition is that it didn’t work out the way you wanted it to. And [failing] is what we don’t usually get a lot of preparation for. She's right. But there's this, too: Failure is far from the only thing that entrepreneurs and business leaders don't get a lot of preparation for. When you're running a venture at breakneck speed, it's hard to pause even for a few hours or a few days, let alone reflect on what's happened in the recent past—for good or ill. And while most of us know that looking blindly toward the future with...

7 Signs You’re Meant to Be an Entrepreneur – Dan Scalco

2Dec By No Comments

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7 Signs You’re Meant to Be an Entrepreneur – Dan Scalco

Being your own boss is not for everyone. While entrepreneurship comes with freedom and flexibility, there is also a great deal of responsibility and an even greater need for discipline. Curious as to whether or not you would cut it as an entrepreneur? Here are seven telltale signs: 1. You’re a self-starter. Taking initiative is crucial in entrepreneurship. No one is standing over your shoulder telling you to get things done. Vacation days don’t require a written request. There’s nowhere to clock in or out. Without extreme self-control and natural drive, work can fall to second to the many distractions of life. A good indication that you’re a self-starter is your past involvement with groups or causes that didn’t provide you any monetary gain. In college, did you start an ...

9 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Big on Google

30Nov By No Comments

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9 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Big on Google

Having trouble getting your small business site to rank in the search engines? Not even sure where to start? This post will provide you with 9 simple hacks to ensure your site is properly optimized and starts ranking as soon as possible. These hacks have helped me to go from a startup to having millions of online visitors to my site each month in less than a year. If you're an e-commerce or local business, make sure to stick around to the end of the post. I've included some special hacks just for you! 1. Add customer reviews and ratings to each product you sell. These benefit you on a few different levels: they're great for user experience, they tend to increase conversion rates, and they're the type of supplementary content Google loves to see and reward by way of higher ranking...

5 Ways to Grow Your Startup by Focusing on Mindshare- John Ruhlin

7Nov By No Comments

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5 Ways to Grow Your Startup by Focusing on Mindshare- John Ruhlin

While growing your startup, metrics serve as your markers for success. When you can command a sizable market share, you know you’ve made it. Right? Not exactly. Many entrepreneurs fall for this flawed thinking and get distracted from the metrics that really matter. To build an amazing business, you may only need 100 of the right people to know and love you. If you can grow to become a $10 million company with 20 percent net to the bottom line, who cares if you’re only reaching 1 percent of the market? Instead, you need to refocus your thinking on staying top of mind with those 100 key relationships -- or gaining mindshare. Often, this is when companies really take off. Prioritizing mindshare over market share doesn’t mean you have to ditch your metrics mentality. Mindshare focuses...

26Oct By No Comments

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How to prioritize your business ideas?

Today, businesses work in a very fragile and unstable environment. Consumers’ preferences and expectations are continuously evolving. Some corporate leaders often argue that it is lack of new ideas that hinder successful tapping of the marketing needs. However, looking at the growing competition and the pace at which startups are expanding, it is clear that there is no dearth of ideas, merely the inability to prioritize and organize them. Study and plan While we look out and get inspired to do something new, we need to relax and remember the old school theory of research and planning. Analysing assumptions, forming hypothesis and developing arguments will never go out of fashion, and this is what will bring in a spate of fresh new ideas. (more…)

Jack Dorsey Has A Secretive Business, Charged Millions To Square & Twitter

16Oct By No Comments

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Jack Dorsey Has A Secretive Business, Charged Millions To Square & Twitter

Business Insider- There is an interesting line in Square's recent IPO filing that reveals that CEO and founder Jack Dorsey's companies appear to be profiting from one another. The S-1 filing states that West Studios LLC, a marketing firm in which Dorsey has "direct ownership interest," received $1.2 million from Square for "consulting services." (more…)

5 Key Tips For Starting A Small Business – Manpreet

15Oct By No Comments

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5 Key Tips For Starting A Small Business – Manpreet

Are you planning to start a small business? Are you struggling to find a mentor who could warn you about everything that could go wrong or everything that you must be careful for. Worry no more! I would love to help you with small business advice and this is one such post where I am going to list 5 key tips for starting a small business from the very founder of this blog. This is because when it comes to running a small business, I am still in the learning phase while Navneet is an expert in it. So, his advice is the one you really want. Not mine. (more…)

The beginning of the end of food delivery start-ups in India – Aditya Somani (Vice President at Premji Invest)

8Oct By No Comments

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The beginning of the end of food delivery start-ups in India – Aditya Somani (Vice President at Premji Invest)

There has been a huge boom in the number of delivery only restaurant model start-ups in the last 6 -12 months. Just to be sure, we know the definition being referred to – a food delivery company is the one who takes the customer order on its system and transfers it to a food production unit/ restaurant, followed by a delivery boy picking up the order from the restaurant and delivering it to the customer who made the order. Food delivery start-ups do not/ cannot do food quality control while their core proposition remains convenience for customers. Unfortunately, the core value proposition for the customer is slightly different - the taste and quality of food, something they can’t influence. The basic issue like most of the other situations is – Can they generate more revenue per ord...