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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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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. Startup CEO experience (Founded P.S. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye. But she also has the temperament, which is important.

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5 Ways To Improve Startup Founder Team Productivity

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. Of course, decisions and action items must be communicated immediately, but individual disagreements, comments and recommendations must never surface around the water cooler or in later reviews.

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Developing Leadership Skills: What You Need to Know

Startup Professionals Musings

These days, with the many Internet articles and new courses available, most new professionals readily cross the gap from lack of business knowledge to knowing, but many never make it over the knowing versus doing gap. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Don’t let the memory of past actions limit thinking.

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7 Guidelines For Entrepreneurs To Do The Right Thing

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Don’t let day-to-day demands take the reins and drag you off course. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/30/2015. Provide leadership to your team for doing the right thing. Make doing the right thing your competitive edge today, and the key to your long-term success.

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Close Relationships At Work Bring Value And Risks

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, most employee training courses recommend the distance if the work relationship crosses management levels, and most management policies strictly forbid fraternizing with the team. Yet the 2015 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. in sociology, and a coach and speaker on work issues and friendship.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

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Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. Of course that’s true. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. But needed to be seen. Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too. Startups are All Naked in the Mirror.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. There are many great companies that have been associated with Launchpad over the years and of course I’m proud of everybody we’ve had relationships with. What have I learned?