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Delane Parnell’s plan to conquer amateur esports

TechCrunch LA

The company raised $46 million last year—its first year operating—with the vision that owning the infrastructure for competitions and expanding it to encompass other social elements of gaming can make it the largest gaming company in the world. Did it seem like an obvious opportunity or did it take you a while to figure it out?

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). She is a coach and mentor to team members. Thus began my marketing campaign.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. This is something I try to coach against. Team Building.

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7 Guidelines For Entrepreneurs To Do The Right Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

Be a coach, rather than a dictator. Make doing the right thing your competitive edge today, and the key to your long-term success. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/30/2015. This is real leadership, and requires constant communication, motivation, recognition and accountability.

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Close Relationships At Work Bring Value And Risks

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet the 2015 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. in sociology, and a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship. Can be a competitive advantage. Competition over salary, promotions, and position. This can cause feelings of unfairness, and initiate emotionally competitive efforts. by Jan Yager, who is a Ph.D.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. It's really Match.com meets LinkedIn for your business. It's very much matching pieces into a puzzle.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco. In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D.,