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Do you even need a business coach?

Berkonomics

Board members or lead investors as coaches If you take smart money from a good angel or venture organization, the lead investor usually becomes your board member and has a vested interest in your success. How do you pay a coach? However, there surely are experienced executives out there who’ll work for a meal. It is worth asking.

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On-Demand Marketing team | 150Birds Startup Review

Feedough

150Birds can be referred to as Uber for freelance marketing services. It charges $99 for its services of strategic guidance and mediator and $65/hr for every expert that gets on board. 150birds CEO and founder Rick Koletavitoglu was a marketing consultant curating and managing marketing teams for high-growth startups in Silicon Valley.

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An experienced coach has seen your movie before.

Berkonomics

If you take smart money from a good angel or venture organization, the lead investor usually becomes your board member and has a vested interest in your success. There must be many more creative ways to pay a coach, especially for early stage businesses. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach?

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ultimate.ai scores $20M for a supportive approach to customer service automation

TechCrunch

The focus, as tends to be the case for all these customer service conversational AI plays, is freeing (human) support agents from dealing with dull, repetitive stuff — so they can apply their (less limited) skills to more complex, consultative or emotionally demanding customer queries. will do the same for customer service.”

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Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more

TechCrunch

They do include e-commerce experiences, but also companies building interactive tools for customers to look at, mix, and match various light fixtures from a lighting consultancy; more standard publishing services; and for helping tailor materials for emergency medical training services.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

Impact enterprises refer to SMEs (small-medium enterprises), SGBs (small growing businesses) and micro enterprises operating at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and social and/or environmental impact. This focus is crucial for fostering a new economy that is inclusive, authentic – and more creative.

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An experienced coach has seen your movie before.

Berkonomics

If the coach is also a significantly large investor such as a VC fund, the board member-coach will offer a limited amount of time outside of board work at no extra cost, all for the good of the investment. It is worth asking. There must be many more creative ways to pay a coach, especially for early stage businesses.

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