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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a new year – 2016. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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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. How is it your first customer was in Australia? It's very much matching pieces into a puzzle.

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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. Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback.

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9 Steps To Increasing Your Street Smarts In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

If you want to improve your strength in this area, or need to coach your team along these lines, I recommend the following steps: Approach every problem as a positive business opportunity. At worst, it’s a learning opportunity for you and your team, which can lead to providing a better customer solution or experience. Initiate action.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio. We can help portfolio companies with announcements, PR strategies, crisis management and so forth.

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Link-in-bio monetization platform Snipfeed raises a $5.5M seed round

TechCrunch LA

Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. Snipfeed is free to set up, but if you make sales, the company takes 15% — this percentage is inclusive of any transaction fees. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5 Image Credits: Snipfeed. With its $5.5

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