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Five biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make

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Jerry Kaplan, serial entrepreneur, executive, technical innovator, and author, elaborates on the five biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make:
1) Having unclear goals and an unclear mission
2) Trying to prove that they are smart
3) Greed - doing it for money.
4) Hiring people that they like rather than people that they need.
5) Not knowing when to let go.

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

The Difference Between Management and Leadership

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Carly Fiorina was president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company from 1999 to 2005. She provides an insightful distinction between leadership and management. She describes leadership as changing the order of things and management as the production of acceptable results within known constraints and conditions.

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

Business Model for a Media Company

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SlideShare CTO Jonathan Boutelle explains that a media company on the Internet requires a lot of traffic to make it worth the time to make large-scale brand advertising happen, His cofounder Rashmi Sinha said it's important for a Web site to make clear to their users how they intend to generate revenue and whether it's going to be through ads. Even when the site first launched, she continued, they have always had advertising. Sinha describes it as making a pact early on with their users that SlideShare will be an ad-driven service that they can use for free.

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

Moving Product at Unprecedented Scale

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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO talks about old print media and music and how they've been trumped by the free distribution of the Web. She strongly encourages those venturing into business to take this business angle into account.

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

Building the Minimum Viable Product

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In the successful build-out of a lean startup, entrepreneur and author Eric Ries suggests adapting the rules of creating the minimum viable product. Rather than getting the product "right"; or employing the "release early, release often" philosophy of soliciting customer feedback for product development, the road to minimum viable product fuses the two ideas. The challenge for the startup is to figure out the smallest amount of product features and capabilities necessary for release, and then to slowly add more functionality as needed.

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

Make meaning in your company

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Guy Kawasaki, founder and Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, believes that those companies who set out to make a positive change in the world are the companies that will ultimately be the most successful. He gives examples of the best way to make meaning: increase quality of life, right a wrong, and prevent the end of something good.

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

Product Development at Facebook

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of TheFacebook, gives an example to demonstrate product development and experience at Facebook and talks about how their product has evolved with the company.

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

Negotiating with Customers and Clients

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Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, acknowledges that the most frequent and important negotiations often occur with customers. Furthermore, Springer advises that the keys to a successful negotiation with customers include: 1) Preparation to discover what the customer wants and 2) Identifying the few things on which you will stand firm

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• Negocios y Economía›Negocios›Comercio›Mercadotecnia

Technology as Medium, Not Content

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Priceline co-founder Jesse Fink explains to entrepreneur Steve Blank how his early company was a technology-enhanced solution to a business model - and not a real technology play - that succeeded in providing for both business and consumer. Fink brings these same solutions to his current investment firm, MissionPoint, who believes it will be business models and capital markets that find environmental solutions, and not the technology itself.

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• Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas

What is low-carbon investing?

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MissionPoint Capital Partners co-founder Jesse Fink explains what it means to merge clean energy and environmental finance, including cap and trade and other infrastructure supports, that helps bring clean tech initiatives to market faster and at a lower cost.

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• Negocios y Economía›Economía›Industria›Industria energética y mineral