Mon.Dec 30, 2024

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If You Don’t Like Sales, Don’t Start a Company

Hunter Walker

As a cofounder you are *always* selling. To customers, to investors, to press, to team members, to potential hires, to partners. Even if you’re the most technical CTO out there, you have to get comfortable with this reality. Being ‘ PLG ‘ doesn’t solve for this. Hiring a recruiter doesn’t solve for this. Having a cofounder who loves selling doesn’t (fully) solve for this.

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The Question Every Entrepreneur Needs to Ask in 2025 (It may be winter, but it’s always smart to weed out what is and isn’t working)

Mike Michalowicz

I want to share a little secret with you that holds the power to completely change how you run your business. Its not some fancy system, a new app, or even a groundbreaking strategy. Its way simpler than that. Ready? Ask your customers what they want. Yeah, yeah, I know. It sounds obvious. But heres the thing: most entrepreneurs dont do it. We think we already know what our customers want.

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Monday Motivation: How to Transform Your Morning Routine for Success!

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great.

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How nonprofit boards can unlock digital advocacy and crush it on Linkedin

Board Effect

Traditionally, advocacy for nonprofit boards has centred around strategies like lobbying or engaging external consultants for stakeholder engagement. The rise of social media and professional networks like LinkedIn have unlocked new opportunities for board members to amplify their organizations mission, drive engagement and create lasting impact. In this article, we explore how nonprofit boards can leverage digital tools, particularly LinkedIn, to drive advocacy, engage stakeholders and position

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in