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Metrics. Advices. You As Chief Happiness Officer in Six Simple Steps. The old saying "Happy spouse, happy house" has a corollary in your business.

You As Chief Happiness Officer in Six Simple Steps

When your employees are happy, fired up, and bringing the best of themselves to the job every day you'll have a happy workplace, happy customers, and a healthy bottom line. Here are six things you can do as a leader to create a happier (and more productive) workplace. This could very well be most important tool you've got for creating a happy workforce. Respecting your people--and their decisions--will clearly demonstrate to them that you consider them to be valuable and important.

Not only will this give employees an immediate boost in confidence, it will also give them a personal reason to value the organization and its success. 2. If you've hired talented, hard-working people, build on that achievement by creating strong bridges of trust. 3. Employees quickly become unhappy when their bosses don't give them clear direction, or when the boss keeps moving the goalposts for no apparent reason. 4.

Le WHY ? les valeurs ? l'esprit ? la marque !

Quand l’entrepreneur est un subversif ou comment il faut détruire pour créer. Au-delà des études d’opportunités, des expertises ou des écosystèmes, le moteur de certaines innovations de modèle économique réside dans la volonté subversive de ses créateurs : Peter Thiel ou Richard Branson en sont deux exemples.

Quand l’entrepreneur est un subversif ou comment il faut détruire pour créer.

La subversion comme modèle d’innovation ? Le point de vue de Sylvain Bureau, Professeur à l’ESCP Europe. Paypal : créer une monnaie privée pour se libérer du monopole des Etats Tout le monde ou presque connait Paypal. De fait, cette solution de paiement en ligne qui permet d’effectuer des transactions sécurisés sur les sites e-commerce a connu une fulgurante ascension depuis sa création dans les années 90 aux Etats-Unis.

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Startup 101 : voyage aux pays des merveilles. Votre mis­sion : expli­quer à des jeunes geeks en der­nière année de Tou­louse Busi­ness School tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le monde des startups.

Startup 101 : voyage aux pays des merveilles

Mis­sion accep­tée. Key­note ouvert. Pas si simple. Les pistes sont infi­nies. Doit-on racon­ter des belles his­toires de star­tups ? Fina­le­ment, je décide d’insister sur le para­mètre qui me semble le plus impor­tant et sou­vent le plus méconnu : la spé­ci­fi­cité de nature des star­tups. Stop dreaming, start doing: From startup idea to a plan that works. Happystartup-canvas. A truly inspirational happy startup story. Move your startup to Morocco!

A truly inspirational happy startup story

I’m a co-founder at Maptia and after we graduated from the TechStars Seattle program at the end of last year, our team’s temporary U.S. visas expired, and so we were forced to re-locate away from the States. Being three British co-founders, London seemed like an obvious option, but it is of course extremely expensive to rent accommodation and office space. Needing to make our runway last until we had launched the Beta for our product, we instead spun the globe and found a cheap apartment only ten metres from the Atlantic ocean in the Moroccan surf town of Taghazout - now equipped with high speed broadband (thanks to Ken’s technical genius) and enough space for all five of us currently on the team to live and work comfortably. Introducing the Happy Startup Canvas — I.M.H.O. If you run a business you’ll often be asked: What’s your exit strategy?

Introducing the Happy Startup Canvas — I.M.H.O.

I’ve always found this to be a strange question, probably because I didn’t set out in business with the aim of selling it for a handsome dime. I wanted to take control of my life, do things my way and ultimately build a business in my image. The thought of creating something you’re proud of, only then to hand it over when a good offer comes in doesn’t sit well with me. Likewise chasing investors early on and giving away equity before you’ve found any passionate customers. “When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours.”Steve Blank Startup founders should be creating companies so that they can live according to their own rules, not someone else’s – especially investors or shareholders. Whilst there will always be entrepreneurs that set out with the aim of a $10bn IPO, there is a growing movement of people that are starting out in business for reasons other than money. Class 11 Notes Essay.

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup.

Class 11 Notes Essay

Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s. Class 11 Notes Essay—Secrets. Nir and Far.

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Effectuation. What is User Experience? by. As a product guy who is constantly trying to dig deeper into user experience (UX), I’ve been asking myself how I define UX.

What is User Experience? by

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