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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. ” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. ” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. My first startup was no different.

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In Wake Of Infamous Biotech Party, 20 Women Join New Exec Training

Xconomy

A new program to prepare high-ranking women in the biotech industry for corporate board seats has unveiled its first class of 20. In other circumstances the five-day workshop, scheduled this fall at George Washington University in the nation’s capital, might go unnoticed among the sea of executive training programs offered every day.

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Reflections on 2018: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

socalTECH

This year I got back to the basics of helping founders build strong, high functioning teams. And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Interview with Ken Rutkowski, The Founder Institute

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The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Ken Rutkowski is the man making happen here. As President of the L.A.

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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Robin Richards: Brand amplification and brand protection are critical to companies, in helping them attract and retain employees. Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company. That's been very effective.

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Programs in NYC and LA prepare autistic students to excel in tech careers

StartUp Beat

They make great employees, in other words, says Thornton – the co-founder of Coding Autism, a professional coaching and training company for adults on the autism spectrum. We want to engage these teens, we want to help them think about their own futures.”. Geeking out with Tech Kids Unlimited. photo courtesy of @TechKidsU.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year. So we went for it.