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Startup Opportunity: Volvo iLabX Accelerator – Capital and Mentors

The Startup Magazine

The Volvo VFS accelerator, open to any global startup , is designed in partnership with L Marks. The 10-week program will enable startups to trial their products at scale, network with industry experts, receive mentoring from the VFS leadership team and access funding from VFS and L Marks. iLabX Technology Accelerator.

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Executive Transition Toolkit: Documenting a Successful Executive Search

Board Effect

Research from North Carolina State University found some nonprofit executives leave for “voluntary retirement,” but almost three-quarters depart for other reasons. Here are some key components: Conduct a leadership needs assessment. You’re not off the hook, however, if your CEO or executive director was born after the boom.

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Episode 5: Profit And Social Media Strategies With Cyndi Thomason And Brent Robinson

Mike Michalowicz

in Economics from North Carolina State University (where she graduated Cum Laude), along with over 25 years of experience in administrative business systems, Cyndi Thomason is a senior-level executive with the proven ability to achieve significant results through leadership, teamwork and individual initiative.

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Furniture CEO Finds Balance between Success and Staying Grounded

Hearpreneur

OFM manufactures, distributes, and provides wholesale school furniture from their headquarters – North Carolina. Blake Zalcberg is chief executive officer for OFM , a family-owned office and school furniture manufacturer, distributor, and wholesaler headquartered in North Carolina. Tell us about your background.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . In ’05, social networking was not quite as prevalent as is it today. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

I think that there is just quite a lot to figure out and we are getting ready to launch a podcast next week called Onward On-Air and Jim Fallows, a reporter for the Atlantic was on and one of the things he kept emphasizing is at a leadership level we need to provide empathy, hope and a plan. I had no network on the West coast.

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The Secret Sauce of a Successful Smart City

Austin Startup

Cary, North Carolina surveys its residents every other year about various topics and the so-called barriers to citizen involvement rarely change. Another Pew study found that social networks overall attract people who make less than $30,000 annually or more than $75,000; the middle-class is underrepresented. In the Web 1.0