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Opinions, Tips, and Hints on Business related topics for Entrepreneurs looking to stay ahead of the curve.
Start With Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
25 May, 2013
If you've ever started a business, or tried to sell something, you'll certainly recognize the patterns described by Simon Sinek [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sinek]. We think of the what to describe a product or service. Same while trying to influence people to adopt a certain behavior. Thinking about the what, and explaining the what just feels natural, logical, rational. The why is implied, and you expect people to figure their own whys to make good use of your whats. The book teaches
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New Scam from China, tries to force you to register your domain under other TLD through their site
15 May, 2013
If you own a .com or .org domain, expect to receive one of these: > (Letter to Head of Brand Business or CEO, thanks) Dear Sir or Madam, This is a formal email. We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on May 14, 2013 that a company claimed "Rolf Industrial Co. Ltd" were applying to register "umitproject" as their Brand Name and some umitproject Asian countries top-level domain names throu
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Things I Learned About Life and Entrepreneurship While Learning How to Shoot with a Bow
23 April, 2013
I've just begun practicing, and did some classes to learn proper bow [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_and_arrow] handling, form, aiming and shooting. It may seem easy to shoot with a bow - after all, it is just a bow and an arrow! anyone could shoot with it - but it turns out that handling it properly isn't as easy as it seems. The Dominant Eye A dominant eye is the eye which is preferred by your brain for seeing things, in a similar way that you have a preferred arm and hand for dealing with
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Three Moves Ahead: What Chess Can Teach You about Business
13 March, 2013
It is been a long while since last time I played chess, but I still remember how to play it! Chess players are well know as strategists, and the ability to make decisions during the game and be always prepared to change your strategy to cease an opportunity or to counter-attack an unseen move are core abilities of any entrepreneur. For starters, the book brings up one of the mistakes entrepreneurs usually commit by assuming that being the first at a given market is a reason for succeeding in t
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The Personal MBA
23 September, 2012
Thinking that a book could cover 2 years of MBA studies would be silly, and I didn't get through this book expecting that, but it certainly surpassed what I thought it was going to deliver. The author makes a focused summary on all the subjects usually taught in an MBA and makes several references to other resources where you can dig further in any topic of interest, not being too shallow in his own job of teaching each subject and being careful not to spend much time in any specific topic.
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Fascinate
10 May, 2012
There are 7 attributes that can be associated to any story, brand or personality that triggers the human fascination: * Power * Passion * Mystique * Trust * Alarm * Rebellion * Prestige Not only the author does a great job describing each of these triggers, comparing brands, products and even celebrities, but she also teaches how to identify all your personal triggers, how enhance them and what are the effects each of these triggers causes in other people. Great read and definitely recommend f
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Criticism avoids you from seeing the good
09 June, 2011
I'm just about to finish listening to the "Making Ideas Happen [http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B003LZ2TL4&qid=1307617874&sr=1-1]" audiobook, and wanted to share my review and a few nice ideas I can highlight from it. Though the title of this book could suggest that it's subject is related to procrastination, just like the other two books I reviewed last month (The Now Habit [https://www.xnv.io/posts/done-with-the-now-habit] and Eat That Frog [https://www.xnv.io/posts/if-youve-got-t
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You don't know the basics
02 June, 2011
Everybody knows how to breath, and that is taken for granted because we all do it and we all seem to do it right, since we're not asphyxiating. Now, breathing right for proper oxygenation and prevention of side cramps or "stitches" is something totally different. Just came back from my daily walk, and today I tried to sustain proper breathing throughout the exercise. It is amazing how hard it is to get rid of your wrong breathing habits and substitute for a right one. I just ended up figuring t
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The Now Habit
14 May, 2011
I'm not even in the middle of this audiobook [http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B002V8L1ES&qid=1305391635&sr=1-1], but I just learned a comparison the author made that I really wanted to share before I finish with it. Imagine you're given the task of crossing a board about 30 feet long, 4 inches thick and 1 foot wide placed on the ground. Would you dare? Of course everybody would, and it actually seems a pretty easy and risk less task to undertake. Take that same board, and place it co
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Ideas Hubs
08 May, 2011
Want to spread your good idea? It could be easier than you think if you use the right HUBS... Check the video bellow (Warning... it is in Spanish) Cab drivers? Hairdressers? What other professional do you think could be considered an idea hub?
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Work like you Sleep
07 May, 2011
Ok, I'm not going to tell you to work like you sleep in the sense of how much work you get done out of your sleep time. Actually, there is a much more interesting perspective to that relation. After watching this TEDx Midwest talk, I just confirmed what I always believed to be true but in a very well explained manner: Interrupting work is just like interrupting your sleep. With a 4 months old baby boy, I just realized how bad it is to your attempt to get some rest when you are interrupted 3 or
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Linked
07 May, 2011
Just finished with listening to this Audiobook [http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B002V57UX2&qid=1304775060&sr=1-1], and it was so amazing that I wanted to share it here in my blog. Drawn by my interest on Networks (no, I don't mean the computer networks here) and the science behind it, just decided to give a this book a try, and I was amazed on all the sorts of networks mentioned in this book and how they relate to each other. From Hollywood networks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_D
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