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BE 2.0: Lead by Example – Turning Feedback into Growth

Paul G. Silva

Our board chairman called me in for a conversation. My standing with the board didn’t just recoverit soared. The Feedback That Made Me Sick to My Stomach Years ago, as president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, I received feedback that literally made me feel physically ill. But I’ve dealt with problems before.

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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Within education, The promise of computer adaptive testing and an individualized tutor and the style of Alexander the Great & Aristotle is possible., Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71

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BE 2.0: When Your BHAG Forces Innovation

Paul G. Silva

Instead, our board pushed us to think bigger: What would it take to truly transform our region’s economy? ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies. The safe play would have been scaling to 9 or 12. We jumped to 30 startups that first year5x our previous capacity!!!

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How to Launch Your Startup Without a Launch

This is going to be BIG.

When Tinybop first launched, before they ever made their first app for kids, they started a newsletter that featured products they loved for kidsfrom everything from books to board games. It was carefully curated by an educational expert and for nine months, it built up a following of thousands of readers.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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Tyler Bosmeny built Clever into a $500M company–now he’s helping YC founders do the same as General Partner

Y Combinator

Over the next 10 years, he and his cofounders grew Clever into an educational powerhouse, used every day by over half of K-12 students in the USA– my kids included. We couldn’t be more excited to have Tyler on board. But outliers always sound unusual at the outset. Welcome to YC, Tyler!

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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

Melanie (Mel) Langlotz is the founder and CEO of Geo AR Games , a game design studio that utilises augmented reality for “creating digital experiences that positively impact the world, fostering education and empowerment with simulations and serious games.” I’m no longer on my own and together we can do this. It’s now or never.”