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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

Taking the exact opposite tack, in a recent CNBC interview, Alan Patricof , founder of Greycroft Partners, an elite venture capital firm, said: “academic studies show that the success rate of entrepreneurs who start at the age of 60 are twice as successful as those that started in their thirties.”

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Developing the Best in You to Develop the Best in Others

Lead Change Blog

Whether you’re an emerging or experienced coach, whether you want to grow your own leadership skills or develop them across an entire organization, Self as Coach can help. Join us on May 18th at 1 PM (ET) as Victoria Montgomery Brown shares insights from her book, Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? What does a CEO really do anyway? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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quickpoint: Artificial Intelligence and What is an Entrepreneur

Leading Blog

CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai in New York Times , 11.08.18 “By scouting out hidden correlations that escape our linear cause-and-effect logic , business A.I. PG94 (Author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order ) “For me, an entrepreneur is someone who can combine the opportunity and the execution.

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Are Entrepreneurs Better Off Keeping Their Day Jobs?

The Horizons Tracker

When we talk of entrepreneurs there is a tendency to think in terms of Hernan Cortes, the famous Spanish explorer who burned his ships upon landing in Mexico in order to convince his men that there was no turning back. In 1997, 20% of CEOs on Inc. The post Are Entrepreneurs Better Off Keeping Their Day Jobs? Hedging bets.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

As I wrote Building Blocks — Case Studies of a Serial Entrepreneur , I realized that over the years, I toiled with many of my failures, but I never analyzed the variables of the successes. Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. Then, consider: External Development.

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15 Nuggets of Wisdom From 15 Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

The best way to discover them is to ask those who have overcome the odds to tell their stories, and that’s what the Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network (OEN) did last week here in Portland, inviting 15 Oregon entrepreneurs to speak at their first OEN Summit.