Posts tagged with ‘tech’

  • Loud Quitting: Tantrum your way out of future job prospects.

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-QuietCuitting01.mp3The trend had been “quiet quitting” where an employee stops putting out any effort at all at work, but...

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  • Chasing the Dream! A good way to lose everything.

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-ChasingTheDream01.mp3You have heard about “chasing the dream,” but is it a fool’s errand in the end? In this Tough...

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  • Rethinking the Debate of Artificial Intelligence

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-Ai-01.mp3Depending on who you ask, Ai is the scariest technology in the world or the 8th Wonder. But are...

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  • The Pitch: Audience

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-PitchAudience01.mp3No matter how dialed-in, intriguing, and dynamic, your startup pitch is, if you try to sell hamburgers to an...

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  • Working hard or Work-a-holic? There’s a costly difference.

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-WorkaHolic01.mp3Is it easy to fall into the work-a-holic trap. Did you know that working 80 hours a week does...

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  • The Clock is Ticking: Does your pitch have a clear mission and strategy?

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Rar-Rob-MissionStrategy01.mp3Mission and strategy are not afterthoughts. Just seconds for your first impression. Minutes to sell the idea. Don’t blow...

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  • The Cryptocurrency Gamble

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-Crypto01.mp3Not too long ago we talked about chasing unicorns in Silicon Valley and the downfall of Elizabeth Holmes. Now...

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  • Is Your Startup Doomed? It doesn’t Have to Be.

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-StartupRealities01.mp3Is your startup doomed, or headed in the right direction? What it comes down to is will people trust...

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  • Asia and competition – from Japan to China

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    Has much changed with Asia and international competition? Is China in the 21st century what Japan was in the...

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  • Catching the next high tech wave

    Tech’s Next Wave

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    Everyone wants to know what tech’s next big wave will be, and when it will get here. As Silicon...

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  • Business tech partnerships

    Tech Partnership Strategies

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    In high tech, you partner. Someday, somehow, with someone. Partnerships are inevitable in tech. The reason is very simple:...

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  • Tech Cycle Survival

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    When I launched my semiconductor company, I was betting my family’s entire future on a widely cyclical industry. I...

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  • Tech, disruption and policy

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    To disrupt is to make significant change. This is where technology reigns and why facilitating disruption should be public...

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  • Talent Wars

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-59-Ray-Rob-TalentWars.mp3Companies large and small find themselves in direct competition for talent, but is it really a war and far...

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  • Episode 14: Multi-generational Entrepreneurism

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Episode-14-Multi-generational-Entrepreneurism.mp3Ray Zinn discusses Silicon Valley entrepreneurism with a special guest interviewer, now active in the red hot tech culture.

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