Ideation Bootcamp – Week 2 – Venture Ready Research & Markets
This is week two slides from the NWEN/Founder Institution Ideation Bootcamp in Seattle. David Bluhm – Venture Ready Research Week 2 Ideation Bootcamp – Bluhm from Dave Parker Dave Parker – Markets and Models NWEN and Founder Institute Ideation Bootcamp – Week 2 – Venture Ready Research & Models from Dave Parker
Read MoreThe Value of Trust
“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.” Abraham Lincoln I remember hearing this quote when I was first starting my sales career at US West New Vector Group. We had a very motivational sales manager named Luke Lukrofka talking about the value of
Read MoreShackleton Hiring – 3,000 applicants one job posting…
From Dave Shappell’s blog post – http://bit.ly/hwRxd5. Special Thanks to Dan Fine, Seattle Founder (#SEFI) Institute Mentors… I’m having a great time at the Founders Institute event tonight in Seattle. Really enjoyed this image that Dan Fine included in his presentation, of an advertisement that Ernest Shackleton posted for explorers for his ship. It read:
Read MoreWhy the fear of failure could make you fail…
Yes you do learn more from your failure then your success… but it still sucks. Chris O’Brien writes about FailCon 2010 in San Francisco, a conference dedicated to… you guessed it… failure. The idea is that we can learn from the mistakes of other versus our own experience. Here’s the summary: be honest and transparent,
Read MoreWhat’s the emotional IQ of an Entrepreneur
Great John Cook interview with Boston VC, Jeff Bussgang… http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/09/boston_vc_jeff_bussgang_on_blogging_super_angels_and_more.html On the ’emotional IQ’ of the entrepreneur: “One of the frameworks we talk about now in our partnership is the emotional IQ of the entrepreneur…. Self-honesty and knowledge and thoughtfulness. You always think about the IQ of the entrepreneur and you always think about the
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