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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Abraham Gin, an entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Gin Consulting Group , which provides unique leadership development and training platforms. Abraham serves his clients with both forward-looking business growth strategy and digital marketing through leadership applications partners. What problems does it solve?

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If You Want To Start a Business Start Here

Up and Running

” As the managing editor of Bplans, I’ve had the good fortune to learn about business via the content we share; through interviews with LivePlan customers and other business owners; and thanks to brilliant, informal coaching from people like Tim Berry, Noah Parsons, and the rest of the executive leadership team at Palo Alto Software.

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You Can Never Put a Price on Reliability

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Reliability is perhaps one of the most important virtues to curate in business, and also to expect from others. It’s worth asking these philosophical business questions, because they will help you curate a practical management and leadership style you can, ironically, rely on during your time in that position: Continual IT Dependence.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

— Problem 1 : Regardless of a high-level understanding that business as usual can’t go on, all agencies are given “guidance and metrics (what they are supposed to do (their “mission”) and how they are supposed to measure success). To no one’s surprise the guidance is “business as usual but more of it.”

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Every Founder that Hates "Personal Branding" Should Write a Book

This is going to be BIG.

You’d like to believe the world is completely meritocratic—that you’ll put your heads down to work on your company, hit all your metrics, and just show up on the doorstep of a VC firm who will just be bowled over at the fantastic little company you’ve created. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders.

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Do you know what you do and who else knows?

This is going to be BIG.

Here's a trackable metric: How many people know enough about your work to make a great client intro and can tell the client exactly what they need you for? You can do that by creating thought leadership content on sites like Medium, or writing for other professional publications. Do other people know what you do?

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. You typically have to have the more directive leadership style, versus curating things from the bottom up, in order to move quickly.

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