Richard Branson's Good Business Lesson + MORE

Richard Branson's Good Business Lesson + MORE

Riding Your Business To Success

– startupnation.com/business-blogs/

Outside of StatupNation, my passion is for Arabian horses. Horsemanship is a fine art that requires patience and a large quantity of self-reflection. This is because, as a rider, you have to communicate in the most simple and intuitive way what action you want the horse to perform. When I first entered the world of horses, an experienced ranch manager told me after I had a moment of frustration that, “when a horse is not doing what you want, it is rarely the horse’s problem; it is the rider’s problem…

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When to Obsess and When to Not

– noobpreneur.com

“If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.” – Jeff Bezos
Most entrepreneurs (and all the successful ones) are intensely interested in whatever it is that their business does. Whether it is retailing or wholesaling, manufacturing or servicing, they care about what they do and how they do it…

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Bruno Mars makes fans feel like rock stars

– customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/

Billed as the “first ever Instagram music video made by YOU!” Bruno Mars is featuring fans dancing to his hit “Treasure” in a new website called TreasureDance.com. The site looks for videos posted with the hashtag #TreasureDance on Instagram, takes the newest 100 videos and places them in a random sequence alongside Bruno Mars’s preexisting music video for Treasure, according to OKFocus, the agency who developed the site…

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Kite Patch makes people virtually undetectable by mosquitoes and could save millions around the world from mosquito-borne diseases.

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing
The news of Detroit’s bankruptcy has brought countless explanations of what went wrong, some of them pretty interesting. But the main point of a bankruptcy — especially this bankruptcy, which has been looming for decades — is to get a fresh start.

So it’s been dismaying to see how little attention has been paid in the past week’s news coverage to the fact that central Detroit is already in the midst of fresh start, a revitalization that feels far more organic and durable than past top-down efforts like the construction of the Renaissance Center in the late 1970s and the arrival of casinos in the late 1990s (although the casinos do appear to pay the bulk of the city’s bills at the moment)…

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Many business professionals use LinkedIn to help boost their career. LinkedIn allows you to connect with other business professionals, network with other people, learn more about specific companies, attend online presentations, join industry-related groups, read industry-related news and even find a new job…

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Team That Landed $1 Million After Answering Branson Tweet Sells CompanyThe young brother and sister entrepreneurs who turned a tweet from Sir Richard Branson into a $1 million investment have, nearly two years later, transformed it into an exit.
Scott and Stacey Ferreira’s three-year-old startup, MySocialCloud, has been sold for an undisclosed amount. Reputation.com of Redwood City, Calif…

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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Personal finance expert and author Linsey Knerl tells AllBusiness.com about the best ways for home-based businesses to save money while building a fully functional home office.

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Thinking of starting a business? These success principles will increase your odds for success. Make your passion work as a driving force.

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Richard Branson's Good Business Lesson

– foxsmallbusinesscenter.com

Here’s what Richard Branson can teach us about networking that sticks.

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