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10 Ways To Prepare Your Team For Business Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

I see that model changing today to one of team collaboration and decision making, per companies such as Amazon, Google, and Zoom. Discourage internal team competition and silos. You need to be a mentor and coach on a regular basis, rather than follow a formal appraisal process that everyone dreads.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

Both Sides of the Table

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better. The best leaders I know encourage coaches to come in and are willing to listen to feedback about themselves.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. .” ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. “No choice at all!”

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How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence?

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He forwarded an annoyed email to my main contact at Salesforce. It’s easier when you have traction and a competitive process for your funding is likely. I often coach that this period is often when you can engender great confidence from the partner. What competitive products did they consider? What did he do?

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7 Work Ethic Elements Will Get You Investor Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

These will provide the competitive edge you need with customers and less-focused team members. This starts with responding to phone calls and emails in a timely and professional manner, and extends to thoughtful and unemotional exchanges in all discussions, business or personal. Demonstrates an ability to listen and learn.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search. Google out-executed us, so, you know, hats off and theyve been victorious, but a lot of that kind of innovation happens in L.A. Google acquired that and incorporated it. Okay, thats AdSense.