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The Best Tools for Starting a Small Business

Strategy Driven

Starting a small business is an exciting venture that comes with immense satisfaction and, of course, tons of challenges. It’s about transforming your vision into reality, introducing your unique offering to the market, and turning an idea into a lucrative operation.

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

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. We recommend thinking carefully about leadership assessment. Case-based assessments give us a sneak-peak inside the brain to see how the gears are really operating. This article was co-authored by Laura Musgrave , Kevin Bijas, and Jeffrey Cohn.

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Leading a Board of Directors

Great Leadership By Dan

You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. If you have taken venture capital you probably have a few of these on your board. But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership. It’s a tough audience. What do you do?

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Six Easy Ways To Raise Capital For Your Business

Strategy Driven

Since angel investors aim to fund a potentially profitable business with clearly outlined services or products and experienced leadership, you should capture their attention with enthusiasm and promising data on the current situation and future potential of your company. Or Venture Capitalists.

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Why the Best Strategies Blend the Digital and Physical

Skip Prichard

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. It is this sort of operational excellence that needs to work hand-in-hand with a strong digital front-end to deliver great products and services. Rob Siegel.

Strategy 140
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How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader

Skip Prichard

Digital Leadership. Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. How do companies compete in this digital era ?

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The New Beta Way To Lead

Eric Jacobson

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.