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Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive on OPEN ForumThe tedium of owning a business can get to even the most die-hard entrepreneur. Use these tricks to get your passion back and be re-inspired. 1. Value Trivial Motivations2. You, Here and Now3. “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!”Click here to read more on these suggestions to help re-start your business drive and invest your heart and soul into every project and task. (via Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)

Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive on OPEN Forum

The tedium of owning a business can get to even the most die-hard entrepreneur. Use these tricks to get your passion back and be re-inspired.

1. Value Trivial Motivations
2. You, Here and Now
3. “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!”

Click here to read more on these suggestions to help re-start your business drive and invest your heart and soul into every project and task.

(via Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)

This image is not what The Startup Curve looks like according to Paul Graham and Fred Wilson, VC and principal of Union Square Ventures.“To all those entrepreneurs whittling away in their offices trying to find out when to release their product to the market, I say “get on with it”. You are going to have to go on the roller coaster ride at some point. Might as well start now.” - Fred Wilson (via A VC: The Startup Curve)

This image is not what The Startup Curve looks like according to Paul Graham and Fred Wilson, VC and principal of Union Square Ventures.

“To all those entrepreneurs whittling away in their offices trying to find out when to release their product to the market, I say “get on with it”. You are going to have to go on the roller coaster ride at some point. Might as well start now.” - Fred Wilson

(via A VC: The Startup Curve)

Have you seen the new OPEN Forum?Scott Roen, Vice President of Digital Marketing and Innovation at American Express, introduces a brand new OPEN Forum by asking, why do entrepreneurs share advice? The new OPEN Forum helps entrepreneurs share ideas, get and give advice, and discuss experiences leading to small-business success.More than a redesign (though we’re pretty excited about that, too), OPEN Forum features a community where you can give and get advice. It’s where you can find, save and share insights from OPEN Forum—and from around the Web. And it’s a place for meeting fellow entrepreneurs and business owners, experts and other like-minded individuals. We recognized that building connections is still as important today as it was in 2007; it’s just how we do it that’s evolved. (via OPEN Forum: Why Do Entrepreneurs Share Advice? | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)

Have you seen the new OPEN Forum?

Scott Roen, Vice President of Digital Marketing and Innovation at American Express, introduces a brand new OPEN Forum by asking, why do entrepreneurs share advice? The new OPEN Forum helps entrepreneurs share ideas, get and give advice, and discuss experiences leading to small-business success.

More than a redesign (though we’re pretty excited about that, too), OPEN Forum features a community where you can give and get advice. It’s where you can find, save and share insights from OPEN Forum—and from around the Web. And it’s a place for meeting fellow entrepreneurs and business owners, experts and other like-minded individuals. We recognized that building connections is still as important today as it was in 2007; it’s just how we do it that’s evolved.

(via OPEN Forum: Why Do Entrepreneurs Share Advice? | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)

Click here to embiggen (see full infographic) Funders and Founders based this infographic on the characteristics of Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Dell and many other successful entrepreneurs. Do you fit this entrepreneurial archetype? (Via Visual.ly)

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Funders and Founders based this infographic on the characteristics of Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Dell and many other successful entrepreneurs.

Do you fit this entrepreneurial archetype?

(Via Visual.ly)

Once you enable growth, you have the opportunity for exponential growth, which is what we are looking for. That, and economic diversification.

Andy White, entrepreneur and partner of VegasTechFund, on the economic and technology growth of downtown Las Vegas.

Read more on the entrepreneurs involved in Las Vegas Startup Weekend on OPEN Forum.

fastcompany: MIT neuroscientists recently watched the brains of 63 entrepreneurs and managers, and spotted a key difference: Entrepreneurs use their whole orbitofrontal cortexes, enabling them to be more flexible problem solvers.

fastcompany:

MIT neuroscientists recently watched the brains of 63 entrepreneurs and managers, and spotted a key difference: Entrepreneurs use their whole orbitofrontal cortexes, enabling them to be more flexible problem solvers.

stanfordbusiness: “You cannot delegate vision,” stated CEO of Ariat International, Inc. Beth Cross (MBA ’88). Read why Cross believes entrepreneurs should picture massive success from day one: http://stnfd.biz/kBHgw

stanfordbusiness:

“You cannot delegate vision,” stated CEO of Ariat International, Inc. Beth Cross (MBA ’88). Read why Cross believes entrepreneurs should picture massive success from day one: http://stnfd.biz/kBHgw

nasdaq: Under30CEO has compiled a terrific list of the 26 books every entrepreneur should read – including a few of our particular favorites, like Eric Reis’ The Lean Startup and Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start. How many of these books have you read, and which one is next on your list? Check out the full list here. A great book list that all entrepreneurs should check out!

nasdaq:

Under30CEO has compiled a terrific list of the 26 books every entrepreneur should read – including a few of our particular favorites, like Eric Reis’ The Lean Startup and Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start. How many of these books have you read, and which one is next on your list? Check out the full list here.

A great book list that all entrepreneurs should check out!

You used to have a revenue plan, and you’d execute to the plan because it was written down. When it didn’t work out, you’d fire people. Now, we fire the plan.” - Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and business school professor
(Via Businessweek)
Click here to embiggen (see full infographic) To see how the field of entrepreneurship has changed throughout history - as well as what the startup culture might look like for future generations of enterprising business owners - check out this infographic on “The Evolution of the Entrepreneur” (Via Visual.ly)

Click here to embiggen (see full infographic)

To see how the field of entrepreneurship has changed throughout history - as well as what the startup culture might look like for future generations of enterprising business owners - check out this infographic on “The Evolution of the Entrepreneur”

(Via Visual.ly)