Real leaders focus on fundamentals.

Tuesday December 27, 2016 Startup Stories You Should Read Curated by startup folks who care - this issue by The Startups.co Team. [o-SUCCESS-facebook.jpg] Top Story Focus on the fundamentals to build an expectation of success. [Success takes care of itself if you've mastered the basics.] When you do work that is so good that it cannot be ignored—Success becomes an organic and natural consequence of who you are. The Mission / Benjamin P. Hardy [Stop worrying about your bookkeeping. Let us do it for you.] Trending [To get good at what you're doing, you need to be comfortable with failing at it.] To become exceptional, you have to be willing to fail more than anyone else around you. Mastery takes time. So, be consistent and make mistakes without losing momentum or giving up. Personal Growth / Patrik Edblad [At it's core, Virtual Reality all about the sense that you’re actually there, in the place to which your senses are transporting you.] To deepen those feelings of immersion, developers should bake in a social component to any virtual experience they build. Backchannel / Signe Brewster [You should always love what you do, because to be great—you're going to do it a lot.] This is because success is really about quantity—not quality. Quality is bred and birthed from quantity, and it only matters that you don’t fail the last time you try. Medium / Chris Herd Advice [To hire a great copywriter, first you need to figure out what exactly it is that you want and what kind of copywriter you are looking for.] Next, figure out what your budget is, so you can attract the right kind of copywriter. Clarity.fm / Joanna Wiebe + 5 Others [Be mindful about what you and your early hires are projecting—]The DNA of a company’s founders tends to become the company culture. Think Growth / Larry Kim Reviews [Keep a good story going.] Switch between reading and listening to the same story with DuoBook. DuoBook / Discovered by Steph Newton [It turns out that the intersection of Snapchat, Geocaching, and Auitopilot is in a pretty cool place to be.] Send triggered social interactions based on location, time, or whenever you hit the big red button with the app Timebomb, which tethers users to a locus—a specific time or place or moment. TimeBomb / Discovered by Steph Newton [Searching for the next conference to attend?] Pitching event? A Grant? No need to search anymore—Get notified as soon as there is a new opportunity for you with Opportunity Feed. Opportunity Feed / Discovered by Steph Newton --------------------------------------------------------------- [s-logo.png] --------------------------------------------------------------- Startups Daily is the TL;DR version of everything interesting happening in the startup world. Got an interesting story? Awesome. Send it our way - [stories@startups.co] If you dig our stuff, please forward it to a friend --------------------------------------------------------------- Startups.co 1322 Manning Parkway Columbus OH 43065 USA You received this email because you are subscribed to Startup Stories from Startups.co. Update your [email preferences] to choose the types of emails you receive. [Unsubscribe from all future emails]