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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Chad Brinkle. Thanks to Chad Brinkle, Highcountryoffroad ! #14- He manifested his success built on a refined foundation of core values that allowed him to ascend to heights that people can only dream of—hard work, passion, curiosity, accountability, leadership, etc. Thanks to Oscar Rodriguez, OssieRodriguez ! #13-

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5 Hardest Things in Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Chad Sanderson, a conversion optimization, experimentation, and personalization specialist for Subway, argues that developing a system that includes the many aspects of optimization is one of the biggest challenges. Chad Sanderson, Subway. We have a name for this leadership style: “HiPPO,” or Highest Paid Person’s Opinion.

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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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The Magic of Dealing With Your Demons

Feld Thoughts

It’s not an official thing, but there is this almost secret society of people who’ve been coached by Jerry.” – Chad Dickerson, Etsy CEO. Jerry understands the psychology of leadership.” – Alexander Ljung, Soundcloud CEO . Campbell had a testosterone-infused Silicon Valley kind of model.

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The Impact of a Good Coach

OnlyOnce

I’m pretty good friends with Chad Dickerson. I’ve been friends with Jerry Colonna of Reboot fame for years (I did a fun podcast with Jerry last year called “Everyone is Scalable). Bolster’s marketplace helps place CEO coaches and even has a programmatic approach to coaching and mentoring called Bolster Prime.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. My answer to that was to be part of the team whose whole is better that its individual parts as its mentioned in the article, a team leadership rather that a point leadership. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Great post, very educational.

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Socialware Raises $3M Series B

Austin Startup

Socialware continues to provide the technology, tools and thought-leadership to allow the financial services industry to activate social networks and is the #1 provider of social networking compliance tools for the industry. of FLOODGATE.