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Pitch Deck Month: “What Do You Do?” Slide

View from Seed

After 12 years of hearing startup pitches, my favorite first 5 minutes came from John Katzman, the founder of 2U. He was a repeat founder looking to do something ambitious, but he was months away from launch, raising $5M out of the gate. What does your company actually do? Often, this happens because of one of two reasons.

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[INTERVIEW] How LaMar Van Dusen, Founder Of Phoenix Management, Wants To Help Entrepreneurs Grow Their Businesses

YoungUpstarts

It’s tough having to wear every hat, says LaMar Van Dusen , who founded and leads Phoenix Management , an Ontario, Canada based full-service accounting and financial firm that also provides a range of business advisory services. The other issue is finding and making the case for the financial resources that will help them grow.

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5 Signs that You are Ready to Scale Business and Deploy Innovation

ReadWriteStart

If you don’t, your engine will burn out.” – Daniel Marcos , Co-Founder and CEO of Growth Institute. ” – Dima Venglinski, Founder and CEO of Fireart Studio. An entrepreneur is like a phoenix. Phoenix never dies but revives again and again. You need to shift gears. RESISTANCE. ” However, it may.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. That moment is now. A novel, you might ask?

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Venture Capital compensation data and recruiters list

David Teten

Phoenix grp intl. I Asked 100 Founders, CEOs and VCs About Career Transitions — Here’s What I Learned. KEA Consultants. Korn Ferry. LHI Executive Search. Madison Search Partners. Odgers Berndtson. Odyssey Search Partners. Orbis Talent Partners. Oxbridge Group. PER people. Pinnacle Group. Pinpoint Partners. Presidio Search Group.

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Taking Other People’s Money Changes Your Life

Startup Professionals Musings

And that they don’t set your co-founders or key employees against you in meetings. Remember what happened to the alleged co-founders when Peter Thiel came in? Well, some of the people who considered themselves co-founders suddenly found out they weren’t! Some of those will be outside the company. Deadlines and benchmarks.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. Photo Credit: Brian David Crane. Thanks to Brian David Crane, Spread Great Ideas ! #2- Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.