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10 Tips On Self-Promotion To Solidify Your Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, how you do this effectively is critical. Technical skills are important, but your ability to build and nurture relationships with others is more important for leadership growth and career advancement today. Make rational and positive contributions on social media. Your first priority should always be to sell yourself.

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8 Aspects Of Team Well-Being Drive Business Results

Startup Professionals Musings

I will summarize these here, with my insights, for your review and implementation: Physical health. Of course, you as the business leader have a key role in making all this happen. Let your team members feel that they are constantly learning new things, and allow them to share their talents through coaching and mentoring assignments.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

Reviewing financial & operational performance. You may have raised money across multiple rounds of investors from 3-4 different VCs and of course most of them would like board seats or at a minimum board observer rights. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, mentoring is not new – it’s been the favored way to learn arts and crafts since way back in the middle ages. Yet in this age of technology, many seem to favor tools and data to get the edge, or can’t find the time to talk to real people. Shared social media is the new networking.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events.

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How Future-Proof is Your Company (and Your Career)?

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, nobody really knows all of what tomorrow will bring, in terms of globalization, digital technology, or demographic shifts, but most experts agree that certain elements are already obvious, and things must be done today to get your business ready in time. Data technology facilitates more fact-based decisions.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. I attended events.

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