Brian Tracy Seminar Taught Me How To Delegate Effectively
I attended a 3-day workshop with business coaching expert, Brian Tracy. I learned a lot, including this tip on time management – a necessary leadership skill for any entrepreneur.
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Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make – Hire Right
Here's a good article from Neil Patel (co-founder of KISSMetrics). He interviewed a few successful entrepreneurs that had built businesses worth at least $50 million to learn what some of their biggest mistakes were. By far, the reply that kept coming up is hiring the wrong people. It seems that just about everything else falls …
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…As we continue to expand, I encourage you to master your current position and begin to prepare yourself – at work and on your own watch – for the position you want to grow into. It will be those who continue to require more of themselves who will be the ones that naturally rise up. Will it be you?
Mint CEO Aaron Patzer discusses how to start a startup
I found this presentation on TechCrunch and Vator.TV. If you’re doing a startup, you’ll like this… Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo.
How Teenagers Use and Consume Different Media Channels
Here is a research note written by 15 year old Matthew Robbson while he was interning at Morgan Stanley. What's interesting is his thoughts on newspapers, pc gaming, and the internet. For the internet, he says that kids basically use social networking and search. Everything else? Not so much. If you're in a business that …
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How TakeLessons uses social media to sell services in the real world
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking for the Social Media Breakfast San Diego group on how our company, TakeLessons is using social media in the digital world to effectively build trust and engage with music lovers on a hyper-localized level. Thanks to Adam and Erin of Digital Operative (a wonderful San Diego social …
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How are you going to make a profit in your startup?
Image via Wikipedia I read an interesting post from Mark Cuban today on the problems of startup success using a free model. Back in the 90's when I was cutting my teeth around web/tech, the mantra we heard from VC's was "get big fast", and "eyeballs are everything", and "don't worry about making money, we'll …
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TakeLessons Gift Certificates Now Available at Costco
TakeLessons has teamed up with Costco to get America moving with music! Costco Members can now buy TakeLessons music lessons gift certificates at Costco.com. "We're excited to help Costco's 50 million members get started enjoying learning how to sing or play music. In today's undertain times, it's beneficial for consumers to find the most relevant …
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TakeLessons Founder Interviewed on StartUpLucky.com
“Steven Cox stopped by to tell us all about his San Diego based startup, TakeLessons.com which, as the name simply implies, is an online marketplace for finding music & voice instructors in over 400 cities in the US. Steven and his team are working extremely hard and have provided a service that simply didn’t exist …
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