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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. And that’s why it’s super important to reference check your VC as I wrote in the linked post. But without these unsung heroes you’ll go nowhere. Luckily word travels quickly.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. They were close but needed more data and needed more time: A couple more reference calls, a few new data requests, one more partner meeting to debate things.

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Do entrepreneurs really have common character traits?

NZ Entrepreneur

Despite their collective efforts to provide these guidelines, they have been unable to prove that certain traits in individuals consistently lead to entrepreneurial success (Moroz & Hindle, 2012). Personal strengths and weaknesses are hugely relevant to each individuals journey to effective entrepreneurial leadership.

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Reflections from the Womenomics 2.0 Event at the Brookings Institute

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The event was predicated on legislation passed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, promoting female participation in the Japanese economy – the policy is widely referred to as “womenomics.” When asked what motivated her, Ms. I was particularly captivated by Fujiyo Ishiguro’s story and presentation.

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EO Accelerator Grads on Growing In Business and In Marriage

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Lallenia: My husband, Brad, and I started Big Birge Plumbing in 2012. I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. On a business level, I get so many different perspectives that enable me to bring new ideas to our leadership team. How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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Identifying Pain in the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How

Both Sides of the Table

Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” These references make for great discussions with customers. Frankly if you can’t sit with prospects and tease out pain points then you ought to be working in a different department than sales or executive leadership.

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6 Steps to Make a Trivia Quiz That Generates Leads Like Crazy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

At the other end of the spectrum is Tony Robbin’s What is your leadership style? In 2012, Jonah Berger published a now-famous study , in which he identified the key “share triggers” that make content go viral. This term refers to features of content that encourage people to share because doing so makes them look good.

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