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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

Both Sides of the Table

Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.

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8 Marketing Multipliers To Boost Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms. I recommend some presence on two or three platforms. Seek mentoring from established industry leaders. In some cases, the best mentor is one of your best customers.

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Disney Accelerator Names First Class

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Disney is providing $120,000 in investment capital to startups to help them develop their ideas, and also provide mentoring from Disney executives. READ MORE>>. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars'

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Interview with Jo Webber, Pod.io

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We've created a social media platform which helps you meet new people, and we're also very focused on privacy, and don't sell your data, don't spy on you, but provide an environment where you can meet other people based on shared interests and shared locations. However, if you want to meet new people through Facebook, it's very difficult.

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7 Key Strategies For Joining The Freelancer Evolution

Startup Professionals Musings

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. As a new business advisor and mentor myself, I enjoyed her recommendations on many of these issues. Government contracting is not for the faint of heart.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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Sense360: Making Sense Out Of Sensors, With Eli Portnoy

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Last week, Los Angeles-based Sense360 raised $2.75M in a funding round, to go towards its development of a platform to help developers pull together information and make sense of all the data coming from your mobile phone. What platforms will this work on? It was a really important part of how we got that acquisition really quickly.

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