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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Three Ways a Peer-Based Network Can Energize Entrepreneurs

Business and Tech

However, the time may come, several years into your business, when you are unsure how to achieve that next growth milestone. Anyone who has taken on the risk of entrepreneurship and endured its frequent failures knows it can be a lonely path. Carrie Santos CEO, Entrepreneurs’ Organization. According to the U.S.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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Why We’re Digging Deep at Lean Startup Conference 2018

Moves the Needle

It’s that time of year again: the temperature is dropping, leaves are changing colors, and after a sleepy summer, companies are ready to reflect on how they are going to improve their operation for the new year. Learn how to reduce waste with Social Impact Programs in this 30-minute, AMA style event.

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Episode 13 ‘Entrepreneur Pilled’ – The Science Behind Becoming an Entrepreneur & the Role of Free Access to Knowledge for Innovation

IM Insights

The first main topic of discussion is about the “idea” of being an entrepreneur and how entrepreneurship is contagious. The effect of exposure to entrepreneurship seems to be stronger if the entrepreneur is “like you.” Including the moral aspect behind fostering entrepreneurship. “It Please try again later. ×

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Episode 10 – Retrospective

IM Insights

01:00) Introducing Oliver and how his ambidextrous corporate abilities to successfully ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ might be rooted in his upbringing and background. (06:30) 16:30) The influence Lean Startup had on our lives and careers. (20:30) Learn how to create a simple financial (or impact) model that works for innovation.

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Unit Economics: How to Calculate CAC & LTV – It Depends

IM Insights

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Paul tells us how to significantly improve common calculation methods and how to use those to make critical business decisions. 23:30) How to calculate Customer Acquisition Cost.

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