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Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Let’s say that your ideal clients are CEOs of mid-market companies that need your consulting services. Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.

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Salon Owner Chelle Neff Talks Scaling, Sustainability and Success

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In addition to developing Urban Betty , a successful salon with two locations, Neff also created an app for stylists , produced a book about homes in Austin, Texas, and even reached the Inc. You also have an impressive array of side projects—from books and apps to philanthropic and environmental initiatives. 5000 list twice! .

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Three Words Entrepreneurs (and VC’s) Should Take to Heart

Both Sides of the Table

She told of the teaching of the Talmud – a book which scholars use to debate doctrine and from which Jewish people are reminded to always learn and to debate. ” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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The Perfect Side Hustle: Amplify Your Strengths and Sharpen Your Skills

StartupNation

He read a New York Times article on the adult coloring book craze, and thought, “I could do this. That included the ideal platform to make it a subscription business, the right tool to create the coloring books. A few months ago, he blasted out cold emails to pitch an intrapreneurship class. He was hooked on side hustles.

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Dear founders, returning to the office is a numbers game

TechCrunch

Kruze Consulting, an accounting firm for startups, mined through over 750 companies’ finances, which includes upward of $300 million in quarterly revenue and over $750 million in quarterly spend. Book your pass ASAP! And if 2023 isn’t the year of the bottom line, I don’t know what else it could be.

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My hard-earned lessons from negative exits.

Berkonomics

Several times in my investing life, as the final board member making the arrangements to dispose of remaining assets, I have literally been the one to turn out the lights, carry out the documents, books and records to my car, and become the only remaining contact between the failed business and the investors, bankruptcy court, or creditors.