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A very insightful interview with Jeff Werner, the CEO of LinkedIn.

Old but really great post about emotional intelligence.

If you find this helpful, Working With Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman provides a more in-depth look at each of these concepts.

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Great collection of quotes from some well-known entrepreneurs and investors. Worth a quick read.

Fail and adapt. Just get started NOW.

Good list from Geoffrey James via Inc.

Good tips for anyone in the process of creating / establishing their brand.

Don’t be fooled by the title of this one.  This cofounder sounds very well-grounded, and he seems to have built his company in exactly the right way. Impressive example of someone who intuitively got it right (and continues to get it right).

Some great insights into how to effectively choose your management team. Two big takeaways for me:

Great point. If you can get over yourselves and stop pointing fingers and have a truly open and two-sided conversation, you can get through any problem with your team.

Empathy. So important for good leadership.

Interesting that each of them can be effective.

Nice, quick insight from Seth Godin.

“Learning agility” – interesting concept. Interesting that self awareness gets mentioned here as well…seems to come up a lot.

Interesting post about how the proliferation of startups has diluted the talent in Silicon Valley. Makes the point that startups may be better off holding out for A players, even if it might slow them down in the near-term. Pretty compelling if you ask me, based on my experience outside of Silicon Valley.

Helping the person across the table to resolve their side’s internal conflicts can be very helpful for getting a deal done.

Strongly supports the notion of shipping your product early and letting customers help you clean up the bugs. This is obviously a balancing act (since you don’t want it to be too broken), but the point is that the product doesn’t need to be perfect before it ships.

Great post on the basics of creating an effective website if you’re trying to sell something (and just in general).

Not a big fan of “going negative,” but it does appear to be effective sometimes. Something to keep in mind, but not sure if I’ll ever be able to embrace it.

Interesting read on creativity and innovation.

This is a great list, and it reminds that I need to get better at some of these things, especially:

Super helpful salary range for startup founders – $50-75K. If you’re raising a seed stage, most of the money should go to the company. If you can save up enough beforehand, then maybe you can pay yourself less. The less you can pay yourself, the more runway you’ll have to figure out your product and how to make money.

Break things. They can always be fixed. Take the chance and make mistakes.

Some very important things to consider if you’re thinking of going down the crowdfunding route.

Evidence that great leaders are critical.

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Great list.

Some good tips on how to network the right way.

Always always remember that other people see the world differently than you do, sometimes much differently. And there’s nothing you can do to change this because their perspective has been developed over the course of their entire lives. It takes time to change these things.

Never stop learning. And reading is a great way to learn…so many great books out there, and so much amazing free stuff out there on the web.

I would have loved to have called this site “Always Be Learning,” but that wouldn’t have quite covered all the stuff here (and the domain wasn’t available…).