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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

Both Sides of the Table

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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The Perils of Founder Fighting

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I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. When they started their company of course they had to pick one to be CEO and the other to have a different title.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. ” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Sure, you need to be competitive on price. Of course that’s not true. Sales people will always tell you how far ahead the competition is.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Sure, you need to be competitive on price. Of course that’s not true. Sales people will always tell you how far ahead the competition is.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. But longtime ICPC student coach Antonette Logar, Ph.D., In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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On Leadership. And Diversity of Character.

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I often tell people I learned more about how to become an entrepreneur by being president of my fraternity than any college course I ever took or any paid job I ever had. There wasn’t any such thing as skipping the line or raising money to start a tech company. Of course it was infinitely more challenging. I hated losing.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft.

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