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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch LA

The newly minted founder joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator , where she developed a curriculum to teach people how to repair EV chargers. It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. ChargerHelp takes a workforce-development approach to finding employees.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. ” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. ” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. We have 12 developers and they have 3.

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Nine Keys To A Winning Startup Channel Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer Once you have succeeded in developing a solution and obtained initial funding, the next challenge is to penetrate the relevant domestic and international markets. When a channel partner does not meet his obligations, despite proper training, management and consultation, a change should be considered.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

socalTECH

I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. We wanted to bring together the babysitters and nannies in the community, and started working with them as contracts. How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things?

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects.

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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers. Take pride in your ability to get things done yourself. It’s a big change.