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6 Sources Of Purpose To Drive Business Success Today

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, TOMS shoes inspired everyone by highlighting and effectively communicating a higher purpose from founder Blake Mycoskie of helping the needy by donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold. Challenge yourself to delivering a technical innovation. People need to see you as a person.

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10 Tips On Self-Promotion To Solidify Your Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Technical skills are important, but your ability to build and nurture relationships with others is more important for leadership growth and career advancement today. Take full advantage of every mentoring and coaching opportunity, and network with peers both inside and outside the company. Help people, and they will help you.

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8 Keys To Improving Your Image And Career Advancement

Startup Professionals Musings

Inside the organization, it also pays to offer some of your time for coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members, as an entrée to a supportive relationship. I have seen too many careers and businesses fail due to projects that went off the rails. Hone your project management skills above all others.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”.

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5 Tips For Making Your Whole Team A Marketing Machine

Startup Professionals Musings

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice. This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies.

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10 Ways An Entrepreneur Can Build A Winning Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why they insist on spending a day with your team as part of the due diligence process. Here are 10 specific recommendations that I believe will help every founder put this into practice. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product.