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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

And when I look at these skillsets of leadership – being self-confident, being able to persuade other people against all other rational reason to join your company and your cause and take a lower salary than they could get elsewhere, and to get press, and get people to give you money, and biz dev partners, whatever you have to do.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

In her role, Lopez is responsible for providing vision and leadership to the diversity, inclusion, and equity program across Cision’s global organization. You mentioned Asia, and I’ve lived in South Korea for 5 months. Asia is amazing but the culture is completely different if compared to the US and Europe.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Mirela Borsan, Inspirational Leadership Coaching, LLC ! #4- I graduated college during the 2008 financial crisis and took a career ‘gap year’ to head to South Korea and teach English. I subsequently became a Certified Professional Career Coach and enhanced my skills with other training and certifications.

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Hearpreneur

. #1- Kept it easy to remember Photo Credit: Seth Thomas When first starting out and trying to find the right business name I did a few different things independently before discussing options with the full leadership team. We help our audience identify and address their water quality needs at home.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English. If you then looked at different areas in the world, at the time in South Korea, it was 0.6%. What did South Korea do? T omas Pueyo : Yeah. It's around 0.13%.