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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

Our premise when we started doing branded accelerators with large companies was that we’d get deep mentor involvement from execs at the company we are partnering with. Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993. Following are two examples from my own life. This took our relationship to a new level.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

But I think what I thought was, as I said, there were 10,000 translation companies out there in 1992 when we started, but they were really companies that were started and run by translators who were enormously talented, but they were busy doing the translation work, so they couldn't scale their companies. I mean, there was no technology.

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Twitter Link Roundup #226 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook – crowdspring.co/Ud9VE5. An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992–2013 | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1nJ2Ms0. MUST READ post on women & men in tech by @mariakatris on @BuiltInChicago and her experiences – crowdspring.co/1xftfiX. 1nJ1vkG.

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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

What do we want our partners and clients to say about us? I’m convinced that the Pirates’ emphasis on culture is a big reason why the team won 94 games and made it to the post-season in 2013, after not having a winning record since 1992. Do I ignore the people on my team, or do I make time for and develop them? Be generous.

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The Montana Future In A Dream

Feld Thoughts

I go to the front of the room, sit down, and start describing how in 1992, a small group of us got together in Burlington, Vermont and came up with the idea of the Montana future, where no one would want to live in big cities anymore so everyone would migrate to the west, set themselves up on big pieces of land, and work from their houses.

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CU Boulder’s New Venture Challenge 10th Anniversary

Feld Thoughts

My partner Jason is leading the judging panel, which includes: Abby Barlow, partner and director of Investment Research at Crestone Capital. Anthony Shontz, managing director of Private Equity at Partners Group. It’s happening at the Boulder Theater from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and is open to the public.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 1992, I published my first best-selling book, The On-Purpose Person, Making Your Life Make Sense. Clients for our consulting, coaching, training and speaking service were confused by US Partners, Inc. On-Purpose Partners is a nice alliteration so here we are years later with a dba of On-Purpose Partners. Be On-Purpose!

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