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Mastering the Mind: How Business Owners Can Win the Mental Game

Mastering the Mind: How Business Owners Can Win the Mental Game

Being an entrepreneur is a challenge. Keeping your mind honed and ready can help you achieve more, even when times are tough. As an entrepreneur, I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “mind over matter.” Whether you’re a startup or seasoned business owner, the fact remains the same: the entrepreneur life is hard. There are...

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Dell’s Elizabeth Gore on Dealing with Uncertainty as an Entrepreneur

The Dell Experience at SXSW 2017 brought together best-in-class technology and some of the most innovative and disruptive leaders across a wide range of industries. On hand to share the experience was Dell’s, Elizabeth Gore. Elizabeth serves as Dell’s ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ and is tasked with being the collective voice for the entrepreneurial channel...

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Me & The Bees Lemonade CMO on Going From Lemonade Stand to Shark Tank Funded Beverage Empire

Ramon Ray, a self-proclaimed lover of lemonade and small business evangelist, recently spoke with Me & The Bees Lemonade CMO, D’Andra Ulmer, during SXSW 2017 at the Dell Experience. Me & The Bees Lemonade is an Austin, Texas-based sustainable lemonade company, founded by D’Andra’s daughter, Mikaila. Most amazingly, Mikaila was only four years old when...

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3 Tips for Female Entrepreneurs from Circular Board Founder at SXSW17 Dell Experience

If you are going to ask someone for tips specific to female entrepreneurship, you want to ask Carolyn Rodz. Carolyn is the founder of Circular Board, a collaborative accelerator for growth-oriented female entrepreneurs. They are a 100% virtual accelerator that has worked with women across six continents offering sources of capital and mentorship to help...

Four Easy Steps to Nurture your Business Network

Four Easy Steps to Nurture your Business Network

It’s not what you know, but who you know, right? Well, that might not be the golden rule of business success - competence and drive assuredly rank higher - but knowing the right people and fostering relationships with them can only help you in working towards that success. Unfortunately, networking is something that people find...

Why Building a Business, Not Reading a Book, is the Best Way to Prepare for an Entrepreneurial Career

Why Building a Business, Not Reading a Book, is the Best Way to Prepare for an Entrepreneurial Career

The most valuable lessons you can learn as an entrepreneur, come from the doing, not the reading. While education, school, and business books all have their place, there is nothing quite like running a business to teach you the in’s and out’s of being an entrepreneur. I can tell you this from first-hand experience. As...

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Randi Zuckerberg on Why Business Owners Need Continuous Education to Close the Tech Skills Gap

Technology is changing so quickly that in the wake of progress we have a different problem developing; the tech skills gap. Not only is there a gap that exists for small business owners who don't stay up to date with current technologies, but we are seeing a major gap in students graduating with the...