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Startup Opportunity: Volvo iLabX Accelerator – Capital and Mentors

The Startup Magazine

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. Pitch Day is your startup’s chance to pitch to a VFS senior leadership team to win a place on iLabX. Accelerator Timeline.

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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. . Prior to Worklife, Dave was a CEO coach, leadership trainer and culture consultant to some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing technology companies. Their first product aims to make meetings more productive.

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Breaking the Ice: Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Jay Leno

crowdSPRING Blog

This is the season of holiday parties, get-togethers, casual drinks with colleagues, and networking events galore. This is where your networking prowess should kick in, right? How does he do it and how can you extract value from social and networking events? Start with a joke. How does Jay make his guests feel comfortable?

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Ecosystem + Incubator = Startup "Ecobator" NestGSV

ReadWriteStart

And even though they talk about the network, after three months all the startups get booted out of the facilities.”. Every Friday, NestGSV invites a handful of partners and service providers like lawyers, bankers and investors from its network and they sit down with startups that are candidates for a spot at NestGSV. “At

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