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Balance Career Mentorship Networking Relationships

4 Steps to Staying in Touch (Without Being Annoying)

Entrepreneurs are always instructed to network. But what do you do after you meet someone? If you’re raising money, and you meet a potential investor, the steps are clear. But what about fellow entrepreneurs? Or anyone else?

Chris YehSeptember 18, 2013

Career Energy Investment Management Team

Why Launching a Startup is Like Having a Baby

Deciding whether to go it alone or bring on a co-founder can be the most important decision you make as an entrepreneur.

Rajesh AnandanSeptember 11, 2013

Career Productivity

Effectiveness > Efficiency: Are You Climbing the Right Mountain?

As entrepreneurs, we often fall guilty to the pleasures of productivity. But productivity in and of itself is a quick road to an end not worth caring about. Read this post to ensure you are climbing the right mountain.

Daniel EpsteinSeptember 9, 2013

Branding Career Leadership Relationships Team

Transparency: The Need to Go Beyond Slogans and PR

“Transparency is a disinfectant for business – it’s going to clean things up but it’s going to hurt a lot.”

Wendy LeaSeptember 5, 2013

Career Failure

The Biggest Opportunity (or Mistake) You Can Make With Your Career

You'll have 10-15 shots at doing something new throughout your career. Read this post to figure out how to make the most of them.

Pascal FinetteSeptember 4, 2013

Career Management Team

What Managers and Entrepreneurs Have to Learn from The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones were one of the most successful media empires of all time. Read this post to learn some of the key insights that all managers and entrepreneurs should take away from The Stones.

Ken BanksSeptember 2, 2013

Career Debunking

Why The Very Best Entrepreneurs Act Like Scientists and NOT Like Business Leaders

Entrepreneurs usually think of themselves as businesspeople or missionaries. But focusing on the bottom line or the cause isn’t the best way to make your startup successful. You need to think of yourself as a scientist.

Chris YehAugust 22, 2013

2013 Voyage @Sea Balance Debunking Full Interview Interview Technology Wellness

Interview with Google X Rapid Prototyping Genius

Entrepreneur, teacher, rapid prototyping enthusiast and part of the founding team of Google X talks about how to manage energy instead of time, invest in people, and how to internalize failure.

Unreasonable MediaAugust 20, 2013

Career Scaling Technology

David vs. Goliath: How Mozilla Made it Big

Learn how Mozilla turned Firefox into an unlikely success against all odds and how you can do the very same.

Pascal FinetteAugust 14, 2013

Career Communication Leadership Networking Pitching Technology

5 Key Steps To Mobilizing Thousands Around Your Cause, Movement, or Startup

Creating any kind of change requires rallying people to your cause. This post is about how to make that happen.

Teju RavilochanAugust 12, 2013

Career Productivity

How Rate-Based Thinking Can Transform Your Goals Into Reality

Goal setting is huge in the world of entrepreneurship, but are we doing it entirely wrong? This post discusses the problems with outcome-based goals and proposes the solution: rate-based goals.

Tom ChiAugust 5, 2013

Career

Entrepreneur: The Newest Superhero

In a world in trouble, entrepreneurs are our best hope of implementing solutions to the crises facing us and bringing prosperity to our communities.

L. Hunter LovinsAugust 1, 2013

Career Mentorship Networking Relationships

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There—A Mentor Will

If you’re reading this article it’s likely you’re someone who took the road less traveled. If you’ve pioneered a new idea or product, it’s also likely along the way you were encouraged to keep going despite your unorthodox idea...

Wendy LeaJuly 29, 2013

Career Networking Relationships

The 7 Steps to Creating Powerful Relationships (Networking 101)

Your ability to galvanize the support of key individuals, build incredible teams that are relentlessly dedicated, and excite rooms filled with innovators and investors all depends on your ability to build powerful relationships.

Daniel EpsteinJuly 22, 2013

Balance Career Leadership Team

The Three Pillars Of Excellence: Availability, Affability, and Ability

Understandably, we equate excellence with performance. But my dad, a neurologist, makes the case that being excellent is more a consequence of how you treat people than what you deliver to them.

Teju RavilochanJuly 10, 2013