OnlyOnce

JANUARY 10, 2024

(This is the second post in the series… the first one When to hire your first CBDO is here ) One of the tricky things about finding a great CBDO is that the role is fairly nuanced and there’s not a degree a person can get in “business development.” The post What Does Great Look Like in a Chief Business Development Officer?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Apple, for example, is the world's most valuable business, yet the iOS operating system enables firms like Facebook to use an already-existing infrastructure to accelerate their mobile development. The necessities will be driven by execution and leadership. This opens up a lot of possibilities, but it's not without its drawbacks.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Other than that we’ve adopted a “barbell strategy” where we may choose to avoid the high-priced, less-proven A & B rounds but we have raised 3 Growth Funds that then can lean in when there is more quantitative evidence of growth and market leadership and we can underwrite a $10–20 million round from a separate vehicle.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Organizational leadership is rarely vested in the lone genius, a.k.a. Steve Jobs, but is more often founded on a network of trusted relationships you develop throughout your career. Yet counterintuitive as it may seem, focusing a majority of our relational investments on a smaller number of valuable connections is far more effective.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

So yeah, I just recognized, gosh, there's this huge gap above a business broker below an investment banker. Do you have a leadership team? We develop these great products, but we're not able to drive traffic to them. You know, I can get a website or somebody will promise to develop a WordPress for me for 500 bucks.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. The company took on any engineering work that came their way but were kept in business developing new code-breaking machines for the Navy.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Prior to Worklife, Dave was a CEO coach, leadership trainer and culture consultant to some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing technology companies. We were probably a little bit arrogant in our thinking of what we could create and how we could lead developers to create these ideas that we have. Wayne : No.

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