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Business Insider took a well documented tour of Behance’s New York office, met the team and chatted with our CEO and Founder Scott Belsky on how the network can be utilized as “a powerful search engine for creativity.”

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Pocket-lint writes:

“At Behance, they showcase the best work from all over the world, so if you’re looking for talent the net is cast much wider. If you’re a creative professional looking to get yourself noticed, this site puts you in control, and puts your portfolio in front of thousands of prospective new customers every day.”

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The Huffington Post recently featured a full slideshow and writeup for Murat Palta’s latest project. Palta is a Turkish student who created a series of “Ottoman miniatures” for his senior art project. 

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New ideas can be like a drug, says Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance, a New York-based company focused on empowering creative professionals. “For a passionate person, the more you care about what you do, the more you’re trying to solve a problem, the more ideas you’re going to come up with,” he says. “There’s a tendency to be addicted to the energy and excitement of new ideas, but that’s not a long-term high – it’s short-term.” That desire for variety is easy to understand, says Belsky, but if you want to accomplish anything substantive, you’ll need to stop chasing novelty.

The real battle, he says, becomes focus and sustained effort: “As you enter the project plateau, it’s about how to keep yourself engaged, even how to trick yourself into being engaged. That’s the art of execution.” So how can you resist the siren call of sexy new ideas? Here are three tips from Belsky, author of Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality.

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Scott Belsky, chief executive of Behance, an online platform for creative work, says that when managers look to hire or promote someone, they want to see more than just experience. “They are also looking for that person’s process, how they do their work, who they collaborate with, how they test ideas,” Mr. Belsky says.

Some portfolios show an early version of a project, the final version and the iterations in between, he says, or reveal a process by telling the story of how the project was accomplished.

Killer Startups covers our recent funding, history of bootstrapping, redesign and current statistics! Check out the full article here.

A recent New York Times article covers Behance’s growth. Read the full story here.

GraphicDesign.com did an extensive roundup and review of Behance’s recent, first-ever global Portfolio Review Week.

They wrote:

“What do a Graphic Designer in Karachi, Pakistan, a photographer in Treviso, Italy, an Illustrator in Bogota, Colombia and an Art Director in Montreal, Canada all have in common? They represent just a portion of the 4,000 creatives worldwide to participate inBehance Portfolio Review week kicked off at Grind NYC on Tuesday, May 15. The event turnout was just one remarkable aspect of the event series described by Sarah Rapp, Behance Community Manager as being “designed to help people up their game by sharing and getting feedback on creative work at an in-person critique event.””

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Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson includes as an ideal resource for locating new talent to join your team. In a recent blog post, Wilson discusses how entrepreneurs can find and recruit strong talent for their companies. Check out the full article here.