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8 Steps To Creating A Business From Your Startup Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well. Summon the courage stay optimistic, yet humble. Successful entrepreneurs aren’t just dreamers, they are doers.

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8 Tactics For Moving From A Startup Dream To Results

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well. Summon the courage stay optimistic, yet humble. Successful entrepreneurs aren’t just dreamers, they are doers.

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7 Tips On Advancing Your Career To Being A Great Boss

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, the first requirement is to get the education and tools you need to feel confident that you are ready, and have the mindset to be a leader in every role. Even the smartest team members and executives humble themselves and listen, although the message is often difficult to hear.

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The Importance of Realism in Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I made many classic first-time mistakes which serves both as my warning signal of which teams to avoid funding (if I perceive they will make critical mistakes often led by hubris) and also as my source for coaching others. It’s why I believe startup coaches are so important and I wish I know more great ones. Until you know.

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5 Key Attributes Of A High-Performing Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, finding personal meaning also requires effort on the part of your employees. You have to be willing to learn from your mistakes, humble enough seek help and advice regularly from peers, mentors, and coaches, and smart enough to recognize good people are the key asset of every organization, even more important than good processes.

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7 Keys To Scaling A Startup into A Thriving Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For many, it’s hard to make the switch from that top-down order-giving culture, and it’s hard to find the time to recruit and coach the new team members you need to scale the business to success. We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

As I like to say (and as Kara humbly hates when I do so in front of others) … she has a much better resume to a venture capital partner than I do. She is a coach and mentor to team members. Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions.