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The hard emotional side of entrepreneurship

Jake Jorgovan

When I started down the journey of entrepreneurship, no one told me that my own emotions would become one of the most difficult aspects to manage. Yet, over the years, I've learned to see how my emotions can be detrimental to business and lead to very poor decision-making. In this article, I'm going to talk through some of the emotional challenges that you may wrestle with as an entrepreneur, some of the pitfalls they got me in, and how I have done my best to overcome them.

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COVID-19 and The Channel

Partner Path

6 Ways to Adapt. As an extrovert, today’s milestone of one month stuck at home is particularly traumatic. The San Francisco Bay Area was among the first to receive orders to Shelter in Place, and I’m going a little crazy. To distract myself from missing large gatherings (or any gatherings), I’ve been pondering: how is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the solution provider ecosystem and the vendors that rely on indirect channels?

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How crisis-driven innovation can help your organization

Hype

A note from the author: I first wrote this blog as the basis for a talk in the UK last year when the only thing worrying us was the "crisis' of Brexit. Now we’re facing some much more serious challenges – and yet the inventive responses from communities trying to think outside the box suggests that the core themes do hold up and may offer us some hope during these troubled times.

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Conferences and the Coronavirus: Guidance for Associations and Event Organizers

ISTO / IEEE

By Joanna Lee , Gesmer Updegrove. As the world goes into social lock-down to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 virus, many conferences, face-to-face meetings, and other in-person gatherings are being cancelled or postponed. While the mass cancellations are disappointing and disruptive for everyone involved, it is potentially devastating for non-profit associations, such as open source foundations and standard setting organizations, that often rely on in-person events to sustain themselves

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Willing to Pay More for Toilet Paper than Professional Development?

Collaborative Leadership Team

If you answered yes, this article is not for you. If you answered no, read on. COVID-19. Coronavirus. Pandemic. These words dominate our headlines and have changed all our lives. Everyone's forced to adapt. If you have tried to buy toilet paper or hand sanitizer you know what I’m talking about. Even if you try to buy online, some firms who claim to have stock want prices ranging from $20-$50 and even travel size hand sanitizers are selling in that range.

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Podcast: MSPs Securing ‘Work From Home’

The 2112 Group

POD2112: SolarWinds’ Tim Brown on MSPs Securing ‘Work From Home’. COVID-19 displaced tens of millions of office workers around the world. Overnight, companies w ent from cubicles te e ming with activity to distributed workforces operating from makeshift desks, dining room tables, and couches. The displacement took many companies by surprise, forcing them to hastily equip their work – from – home employees or allow staff to use personal devices.

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