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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. Your first priority should always be to sell yourself. Constantly focus on improving interpersonal skills.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. Some boards are highly functional, many are not. If you’re at that level of reporting you’re probably sub-optimizing your board’s role. There you have it.

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10 Tips For A New Venture To Survive The Early Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Set expectations accordingly.

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10 Metrics To Drive Your Annual Business Review

Startup Professionals Musings

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Of course, everyone is happy when the numbers keep going up, but the data needs to be mined constantly for deeper meanings and trends. Variable cost percentage.

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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

Tech.Co

Truth be told, your only path to some serious funding is perseverance and diligence in getting meetings and being prepared. To help you crush your next investor meeting, we asked top VCs and tech leaders to share their best pitch advice. Of course, if you’re none of those things, you might want to have someone else pitch.”.

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Interview with Scott Sangster, Tech Coast Angels

socalTECH

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Of course not.

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

InfoChachkie

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections.

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