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

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Ask for short conference calls. When we recommended that Rob get a CEO coach he not only embraced it but craved it and thanked us for suggesting it. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . Rob is driven to learn. And improve.

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

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There are people like Gus Tai who any entrepreneur who’s worked with him well tell you is that he has helped coach them into building a great business. They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. That was the basic, preliminary insight into KarmaGoat.

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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

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Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. Once you have achieved some success as an idea person who has implemented a business, you can broaden your positive impact by mentoring and coaching other aspiring entrepreneurs, supporting worthy causes, writing a book, and speaking at leadership conferences.

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How Arivale Is Harnessing Genomics To Optimize Human Health and Wellness

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We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. They'll take the risk of chocolate cake over the risk of diabetes in five years.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

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Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. The challenges for making money and survival in these professional services worlds are different, maybe even tougher.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money.