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“Our actions have been engineered”

It’s Not the Best Product That Wins (originally from a Startup Grind video).

“Silicon Valley graveyards are full of companies that had the best technology. It’s not the best product that wins. It’s the product that captures the monopoly of the mind. The thing that we turn to first with little or no conscious thought, that is what captures the market.

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Being Perfect And The It Factor by Tami Holzman

Not being perfect is basically a metaphor from my book (From C-Student to the C-Suite). I think it takes a lot of pressure off. I have a big joke that says being I’m the perfect 7. I know I’m better than average but I’m far from perfect. Who wants to be perfect anyway? I mean if you’re a 10, you have nowhere to go but down. When you’re a 7, you can always be a work-in-progress. And I don’t know anyone that is perfect. If they are, they’re usually sweeping this sh*t under the carpet. (more here)

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5 Benefits Of A Business Internship by Daniel Arvidsson

“From my internships I learned a lot from just the business side of things, but on a personal level something my dad told me before I started my first internship was pay attention to the managers and try to figure out why they’re the managers and not somebody else. I think that from Day 1 this was ingrained into my mind ‘Why is that guy the CEO?’ I think a lot of it comes to your need to be able delegate things and your need to be very personable. Those are the two main traits I noticed from all the different bosses that I’ve had and the different CEO’s that I’ve worked under. And especially for my last internship I worked directly with the CEO and founder (more here)”

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A New Business Doesn't Need A Business Plan

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3 Mistakes New Business Owners Make

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Giving Up The Day Job For The Dream, Is It Worth It?

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Biggest Regret In Business by Art Lewin

Probably the biggest mistake I’ve done in my business years and years ago…

Art Lewin: The biggest mistake I made starting my own business? Well I don’t think of it as a mistake. I don’t see mistakes as most people see mistakes. I see it as a learning experience. But let’s talk about a regret. I had a very successful location, clothing location in Woodland Hills (in California near Los Angeles) and back when I was going through my tough time with going through a divorce I closed that location and I only closed it just from being selfish because I wanted to travel. So mistake, regret…you know it’s a fine line. But that’s probably my number one regret. I closed a successful location because of the mistake of me going out and enjoying life in 2002 (more here).

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When Everything Is Working And A Business Still Fails

And it seemed really odd to all of us,(especially the CEO) why it wasn’t working because we had really good tech people and really good clinical people.

Dr. Stephen Dansiger: The other story of ‘startup land’ that I’ve been in (and actually I think there is a couple more) but the real sort…the one that “broke my heart” and I still don’t know how it ends. Maybe that’s what it is. It ended, but I don’t know how it ends…is I got hooked up with some folks who wanted to do a wearable for therapeutic purposes. Kind of like a Fitbit. There is one out there now (I don’t know if it’s a wearable) but it’s like a Fitbit for my emotions. Anyway, we’re working on this project and I was working with some amazing people like a former CEO of a major company and people at (more here).

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Biggest Challenge Launching A Business For A First Time Entrepreneur

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Why The Blurr Co-Founders Interviewed 700 People Before Developing Their App

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From CPA To Autism Advocate - How It Happened by Tom Iland

"My first permanent job.  I waiting for this my whole career only to have it thrown back in my face because I had a disability.

Five years ago I was working in temporary accounting jobs.  It was a life I didn’t necessarily like or want, but I needed to do it to survive and make money to make ends meet.  

I was (and still am) a CPA.  And there was a little inkling in me, something inside me that told myself “There must be something better than the life I’m currently living.”  And slowly but surely I began to see what that meant because I’ve been giving speeches about autism and how it affects me to educate people on the side of my accounting work.  Only recently (2 and a half years ago to be exact.  No make that 1 and a half years) did I decide to leave accounting behind and make it my full-time thing to speak about autism to audiences all around the country and even the world...more here”

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6 Common Advertising Mistakes Business Owners Make Again And Again

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When A Startup Fails, How Does An Entrepreneur Pick Themselves Back Up? by Dr. Steve Dansiger

“I definitely had some denial that it was happening or that I couldn’t fix it. I was doing some bargaining, you now? Like ‘Well if I just pretzel myself a little bit like this, we can work this out and it will work out…”

Dr. Steve Dansiger: So I have a couple of stories of endings and rebirths and endings and endings! So Refuge Recovery Center where I am a clinical director (myself and Noah Levine), we started it up with another organization and we had some partners and it wasn’t the right fit. There is nothing to say with ill will and direction, it just wasn’t the right fit. And even though there was a Phoenix from the ashes from it, that was very painful.

(hear more of this interview on Youtube)

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Sorry…But NO! 5 Successful People Who Failed and Tried Again

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The U Formula Helps People Succeed In Business And In Life

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A Simple Lesson To Help Business Owners With Their Advertising Dollars

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The Importance Of A Business Keeping It’s Word