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Are You in Love With Your Product or Your Business?

How to resolve the classic love triangle: Entrepreneur, Product, Business. Every business starts with an entrepreneur looking to solve a problem. The entrepreneur creates a product they love, and are absolutely sure others will love it too

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5 Things I Look for In a Great Job Interview

After years of seeing it all in job interviews, here is what separates a good candidate from a great one. In my career I have reviewed thousands of resumes and conducted hundreds of employment interviews for both The Trademark Company and other businesses for which I have worked. In doing so, I got to see the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in terms of resumes, interviewing skills, and the like

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10 Zen Ways to Nail Your Next Presentation

Noted public speaking coach Sims Wyeth offers 10 koan-like tips that will calm your nerves and leave your audience applauding. Your job as a business owner is 90% communication: You have to communicate the goals of your enterprise and rally your employees around them, and the most effective way to that is still the spoken word. Sims Wyeth, one of the best presentation coaches I know, says, “Public speaking is the number one tool of leadership because when you get people in a room to hear the same message at the same time, you have the greatest chance of moving them to action.” This isn’t something that software is likely to change

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Steve Blank On The Broken Relationship Between Investors And VCs

Veteran entrepreneur of Silicon Valley shares his funding stories, what he's learned about the entrepreneur/investor relationship over the years, and the best way to pitch to a venture capitalist. Funding Stories When I was at E.piphany, my last startup, I was negotiating with a company called Infinity Capital at the time

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Why 5, 8 and 24 Are the Strangest Numbers in the Universe

In the May 2011 issue of Scientific American mathematician John Baez co-authors "The Strangest Numbers in String Theory," an article about the octonions, an eight-dimensional number system that was discovered in the mid–19th century but that has been largely ignored until quite recently. As the name of the article implies, interest in the octonions has been rekindled by their surprising relationship to recent developments in theoretical physics, including supersymmetry, string theory and M-theory.

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