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10 Lessons On The Value Of Self-Promotion In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Entrepreneurs need leadership, teamwork, listening, and coaching skills, which you can learn from advisors and networking with peers. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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3 Reasons The Remote Work Trend Is Here To Stay

YoungUpstarts

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent . Leadership Tip: Develop a hybrid talent strategy, one in which you leverage consultants from the gig economy as well as your own employees. With the continuous advances in technology, it’s easier than ever for businesses to get work done remotely. It’s a win-win.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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How to Create an Attractive Presentation for Investors

ReadWriteStart

To do this, startup founders need to analyze how many potential customers the product has, how much they can pay, and how their number changes over time. Startup founders can build a financial model based on their assumptions and data, but the approval of a professional must support such a theory. Leadership and team.

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10 Tips On Selling Yourself As Well As Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. Entrepreneurs need leadership, teamwork, listening, and coaching skills, which you can learn from advisors and networking with peers. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Leadership and CEO Succession

Reid Hoffman

Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. Jeff is also one of the few founders I know of who sets OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for his board members. What I say is only speculative, but hopefully helpful and insightful. You can listen to the entire podcast here.