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15Five Lands $8M To Expand Use of Its Coaching Software for Managers

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San Francisco-based performance management startup 15Five , whose mission is to torpedo annual performance reviews for workers and replace them with supportive weekly coaching by managers, announced today it raised $8 million in a Series A funding round. The aim is to keep employees on track. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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8 Keys To Providing Consulting Services To Startups

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Many consultants today are hard to contact between scheduled meetings, due to their formal communication processes. If your customer dress code or decisions process is informal, you should adapt yours to fit in, rather than continue to act and look like an outsider. Adapt a style to meet the new business work models.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. The second event was in Boulder. Ambitious goals.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

Reviewing financial & operational performance. And while John & I have been through these phases ourselves (and have even written several blog posts on the topic like this one and John keeps a great blog with many similar concepts) we simply haven’t been running large sales teams for the past 8+ years.

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant.