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Change Your Management Style To Meet Today’s Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it may seem quicker and more effective to hand your service desk employees the store policy manual, and tell them to follow the rules, rather than spend time coaching them on how to really listen to customer feedback, and use their strengths to build customer loyalty. Your people will expect more coaches than bosses.

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Omkar Kulkarni On The Cedars-Sinai, Techstars Health Accelerator

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It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net. Finally, we're seeing some really interesting research in biotech applications, and ways to drive innovation in healthcare research.

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Omkar Kulkarni On The Cedar Sinai-Techstars Health Accelerator

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It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere. Omkar Kulkarni: We're deliberately casting a wide net. Finally, we're seeing some really interesting research in biotech applications, and ways to drive innovation in healthcare research.

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

Tech Coast Venture Network

“The high-net-worth individuals [who] make up the angel universe tend to take extended vacations in the summer and the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s,” says Jennifer Naylor, an angel investor with Golden Seeds in New York. . Avoid approaching investors in July, August, and December. million in 2010.

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Interview with Robin Richards, Internships.com

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Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, We looked around for literally eight to ten months, by having a couple of young people bring us companies, research papers on potential industries, and other information every day.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens.

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