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8 Keys To Improving Your Image And Career Advancement

Startup Professionals Musings

These should come as no surprise to you, since they haven’t changed in many decades, and I expect will serve you well in the current turbulent times we all face: Spend time nurturing productive work relationships. In my experience, relationships are still the key to career opportunities, new clients, and collaborative results.

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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead.

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5 Tips For Making Your Whole Team A Marketing Machine

Startup Professionals Musings

It does mean that everyone on the team, from you the founder to your most introverted developer, needs to really understand and believe in the product and strategy, and when asked, doesn’t hesitate to be an advocate for you and the business. Facilitate participation in industry conferences and networking.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? We are judging how well you are coached on stage. I like to see how they improve their products when there are obvious holes. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage? What price? Do you have good quips?

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation. According to CEO Eric M. and Schlumberger.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

Both Sides of the Table

And Coach Campbell. I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. The best VCs I know take 11pm conference calls. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit.