Category: Entrepreneurship – general
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Cool and social startup events, a dream or reality ?
Be social. Real social. Not on social networks, not through media but in person. This is the new challenge of social. Too many computer friends, too few real-life contacts. This little shout out draws its origin in my attending some startup events in France. Once again (see “The kid startup … “) Where the young,…
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The lean model : startup history X
The lean startup model is the new fashion. Developed already in the startup world and developing in the corporate world too now. Yet, aside from calling lean a management model based partly on logic and partly on speed, this “lean” approach can also turn into a stamp of approval for failure too. And failure is…
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Train your discomfort
Entrepreneurs, startup enthusiasts or just employees or average Joes, everybody striving to improve, be it in work, sport or personal life, has to go beyond habits and comfort. It is easy to do what we like. Or pick a topic of interest and become knowledgeable about it. Improvements come through challenges. After a discussion I…
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Mentoring = ass-kicking
“I am a mentor”. A few words to be read on CVs or biographies; to be heard in the mouths of people at startup events; Being a mentor does apparently sound like an achievement in a career nowadays. Driving various kinds of people to become “mentors”. However, the very foundations of mentoring and being a…
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App Camp 2013, in a summarized flash
Vilnius (Lithuania) App Camp 2013, hack, mentor, network, get apps done and talk kite-surfing! Published via Pressgram
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Marketing the marketing
Marketing is in the news. With recent highlights on the social networks more or less started through a rant from Dave McClure on startups not knowing about marketing. It has since become a hot topic in the startup world, summarized in one short bit : even if you have the best product, you need to…
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