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Use the natural wiring of your brain to your advantage and wrangle that illusive problem-solving insight by taking a break and being open to serendipity. ...
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Via: The99Percent
We're now posting under @99U - come follow for insights on m |
Carlo Matic, the founder of Interactive Pioneers and HackFwd Referrer just posted a video showing how he prioritizes tasks in his startup. He calls it Prio-matic and the spreadsheet is available for download. ...
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Via: HackFwd Blog
We're experienced tech entrepreneurs looking to support and |
"Can you bring me up to speed?" We all hate to hear those words, as it implies a big disruption to whatever we're currently doing. At The Agile League, that phrase is taboo. Instead, we humbly ask to bring each other down to speed. Here's why: Giving status updates and explaining things is very time consuming. There are people whose entire jobs consist of sitting in meetings and either bringing pe ...
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Via: The Agile League
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We've all been there: You finally carve out the time to work on a big creative project and then you... choke. After counting on this break to really produce something, you're suddenly paralyzed by performance anxiety. But instead of showing up as fear on the surface, it manifests itself as guilt. If you don't proceed with caution, you can soon fritter away your creative fortune on nickel and dime ...
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Via: The99Percent
We're now posting under @99U - come follow for insights on m |
First, for those that are not familiar with the term, time-boxing is not the same as time-limiting. Time-limiting is what we did in Waterfall. Teams would plan a schedule with 2-4 weeks of time to do "requirements and design" and then development would proceed after that. ...
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I'm a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, specializing |
Make sure you have agreement on the facts of the situation and a range of hypotheses where you don't have strong data. Don't agree to a course of action without understanding the larger goal, key risks and outcomes to be avoided, and doing at least one round of pre-mortem review where you agree on the most likely causes of failure Whenever an advisor suggests a particular course of action get an e ...
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Via: Sean Murphy
New Technology Product Introduction Focused on Early Custome |
It's easy to convince yourself that working until your eyes bleed and your fingers cramp is simply what must be done when starting something new. You can dangle yourself the carrot that it's just until you get out of the first hole: "Once we're live, it'll all calm down and I'll be able to relax". But that's rarely how it goes. The reality is that you're never going to be done. There's always mo ...
There's a time in every new business when you have to don at least a dozen hats. It's perfectly normal and comes with the territory of owning your own company. "Chief cook and bottle washer," as the saying goes. ...
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Via: Daily Muse
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If you had a time machine and traveled back twenty-five years, you'd find a world without round the clock access to technology. Life in the 1980s (and earlier) simply existed without ubiquitous access to technology. ...
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Via: Bostinnovation
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Great leaders have an inherent ability to distill complexity into simplicity. A great story which reflects this talent is attributed to steel magnate Charles M. Schwab. One day one of his floor managers came to him complaining about varied schemes he had attempted in order to increase the average output per shift, without any luck. ...
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Via: Usman Sheikh
Co-Founder of IDENTIFI. On a mission to get the right people |
A lot of people think meetings are a complete waste of time. Meeting with people in and of itself isn't a waste of time, it's just that most meetings are poorly run. For entrepreneurs this is a killer - Here are 5 quick tips for staying in control of meetings ...
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Via: Instigator Blog
VP Product @GoInstant. Partner @YearOneLabs. Ex-CEO/Founder |
When our noses are to the grindstone, it's easy for many of us to tune out the outside world, forget about the things we need to care of outside of work. Maybe even forget to get some sleep. Imagine how much more intense that is for a young entrepreneur who's stoked about a product he's working on. The clock vanishes and so may the various challenges that life provides. ...
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Via: ZURB Blog
Editor @ZURB, Writer, Educator, and occasional Starship Com |
After owning a business for over twenty years now, here's something I firmly believe. Your business is worthless until it can operate without you. The to-delegate listNow that may seem a bit harsh to some, but until you've created a system that allows others to bring in the business and provide the products and services without the need for you to make it happen, you're stuck in a job. ...
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Via: Duct Tape Marketing
I actually tweet at @ducttape, but I have this account to us |
When most organizations design new work processes, they assume that team members will make the best possible use of them to improve team performance. That is, they assume that team members will act rationally. In most cases, this assumption is wrong. ...
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Francesca Gino is an Associate Professor in the Negotiation, |
Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals and co-author of Rework, found that when people wanted to get stuff done, their answer was rarely the office but instead someplace where they wouldn't encounter externally imposed distractions. What's perhaps most insightful about Fried's 2010 TEDxMidwest talk is his comparison of work to sleep ...
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Via: iDoneThis blog
The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms. - Kur |
One of the challenges of running an organization is that you aren't directly accountable to anyone.Of course, you're accountable to many people -- your clients and customers, your employees and stakeholders. But you don't have one person to whom you report. With whom you set goals. And who forces you to make commitments and attain those goals. ...
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Via: Growthink Blog
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A few weeks ago I had wine with some very successful entrepreneurs. How successful? On their best days they were generating $100,000 a DAY in revenue. That's $36,500,000 a year. But what was the most surprising thing to me was that they were STILL doing their own data entry and dealing with small clients. ...
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Via: On Startups
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You Wanna be a Hero? Grow a Set and Systemize by Shanna Mann "We don't like checklists. They can be painstaking. They're not much fun. But I don't think the issue here is mere laziness. There's something deeper, more visceral going on, when people walk away not only from saving lives, but making money. ...
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Via: Sebastian Marshall
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Time management isn't just about making sure you don't miss a deadline. Better time management helps you to choose which priorities to focus on; it helps you to be more effective; and it helps you to remain motivated. Many time management techniques were developed for the corporate environment. The underlying assumption is that you have a clearly defined role and goals ...
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Via: HackFwd Blog
We're experienced tech entrepreneurs looking to support and |
The single biggest mistake web analysts make is working without purpose. We work very hard. We torture SiteCatalyst. We send out a lot of data. Then we resend it again and again. And yet our work results in very little impact on the business in terms of action taken by company leaders. Why? ...
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Via: Occam's Razor
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How many meetings did you have today? This week? This month? Now ask yourself how many of those meetings were worthwhile, versus the work that you could have accomplished in that same time. This might lead one to wonder why we even have meetings at all. At GitHub we don't have meetings. We don't have set work hours or even work days. We don't keep track of vacation or sick days. We don't ...
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Via: Coding Horror
Indoor enthusiast. Co-founder of http://stackoverflow.com an |
Most startups are so busy racing around that they rarely take the time to evaluate and improve their own processes. It's unfortunate, because as a startup matures it won't be able to function the same way it did at the very beginning. Once you throw in users, customers, more code, freelancers, more employees, etc. ...
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Via: Instigator Blog
VP Product @GoInstant. Partner @YearOneLabs. Ex-CEO/Founder |
How do you systemize your business so it'll grow without sucking up every ounce of energy you have? Sam Carpenter used to run himself ragged as the head of Centratel, one of the largest commercial telephone answering services in the nation. Then he discovered the power of systems and everything changed... ...
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Via: Mixergy
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Laura Klein has a thoughtful post up about validating problems and needs and behavior before product. I agree with her. It still doesn’t mean that you’ll get things right but you can prevent a lot of wasted effort. It again made me think about the liberating power of deciding to focus on learning goals, rather [...] ...
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Via: Giff Constable
MD at Neo in New York; maker, designer, entrepreneur, and ag |
One of the major challenges that we’ve gone through in the last year is figuring out how to stay highly productive as our team grew from 5 to 12 people. While we’re still early on in this process, I thought I’d share some of the lessons that we’ve learned so far.Communication between 12 people is very different from what it was between 6 people, which is really differe ...
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Via: Savage Thoughts
Co-founder and CEO of @wistia. My obsessions include: market |
There is a way for you to earn more money without working too hard or getting incredibly lucky. Would you like to know what it is? It can be summed up in three simple words: be more consistent. How do you do that? Keep reading and I’ll tell you. How to be more consistent The... ...
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Via: Passive Panda
Entrepreneur. Travel Photographer in 17 countries and counti |
I have long lamented my lack of coding ability and have stated that for this reason alone I will never be a founder. So, I was pretty excited when I heard about Code Academy last year. I was even more excited when they launched their Code Year program promising to teach you how to code [...] ...
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Via: Mark MacLeod
Seed investor for SaaS, e-commerce and other awesome startup |
Today’s EO Accelerator quarterly education day was on people and more specifically accountability. As part of the material there was a lengthy discussion on results only work environments (www.goROWE.com). ROWE is the idea that results are what matter, not people being in the office from 8am – 5pm daily. Here are some tips when considering [...] ...
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Via: David Cummings
10-20 tweets per week. Tech entrepreneur who enjoys family, |
Richard Branson owns and operates more than 400 companies under his Virgin Group. He sells everything from music to trips to space. He sets world records on sailboats and hot-air balloons. He appears in movies and television shows. He writes … Continue reading → ...
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Via: TheBlogOfAJKessler
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Tired of articles instructing you to break down large projects into smaller, more annoying and less interesting tasks? The technique I'm about to tell you about is weird, and not in a good way. More like a painful, aggravating way. I know, I did it myself. But it really does work. You'll measurably improve your productivity. ...
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Via: A Smart Bear
Keyword, buzzword, half-truth, adjective, hey look at me! |
The Single Greatest Factor of Success in BusinessThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing The Single Greatest Factor of Success in BusinessThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing There are so many important ideas and concepts in business. Things like strategy, purpose, and passion are integral to success, but none of it really matters without one ingredient – and that’s clarity. Clarity ...
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Via: Duct Tape Marketing
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