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5 Things to Consider When Choosing a Business Partner

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Business success requires a range of skills and talents and it often makes sense to have a business partner rather than going solo. Should business partners also share a close personal relationship? Perhaps that’ll make it difficult to have the difficult conversations that may be necessary in the course of running a business.

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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

We partner with Code 2040, Bunker Labs, DivInc , Huston-Tillotson, Women@Austin, Women Who Code and other great organizations who bring diverse people into our community. We need more Women and People of Color on the Capital Factory leadership team. We try to make sure everyone else knows it, too.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

During that conversation, we talked about some of my favorite philosophers and how I’ve applied their ideas to my own career. Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. Jeff Weiner, Wharton undergraduate, blended those traits with compassionate management and leadership. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

During that conversation, we talked about some of my favorite philosophers and how I’ve applied their ideas to my own career. Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. Jeff Weiner, Wharton undergraduate, blended those traits with compassionate management and leadership. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM.

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3 Years and 4 Jobs

Austin Startup

Let’s be real… I was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and I had a privileged upbringing. Total Freedom… When I graduated college that boyfriend I was clinging onto in Georgia, broke it off with me. Then the next day, she’d be taking a new direction, and the conversation would lack productivity. I was 24 at the time.

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Light Up the Room

Austin Startup

At the time of this writing I have just attended a Georgia Tech Foundation board meeting in Atlanta and am always there surrounded by achievers who exhibit similar energy. If phrased properly in the framework of high energy leadership, that can be smart delegation and not a sign of disinterest. That’s not a bad model to follow.

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Be Coachable

Austin Startup

As a founder you ultimately have to learn the skills to play your leadership role, and having a seasoned booster early on just moves you faster along that path. I started every one of my tech businesses after Peachtree Software in the ATDC in Atlanta and was part of the Georgia Tech alumni committee that founded it.