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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. Without the right people in the right seats who live by your core values and culture, you won’t be able to deliver to your ideal client. These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. 22:00 Mark’s book recommendation: American Pastoral by Philip Roth.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA).

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses.

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4 keys to international expansion

TechCrunch

During my five years with Global Founders Capital, Rocket Internet’s $1 billion VC arm, I saw more than a hundred of Rocket’s incubated companies attempt to internationalize. Rocket often followed the Blitzscaling model popularized by Reid Hoffman — earning them an appearance in his book of the same name.

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The Rise of the Rest Class of 2019

Revolution

Also, utilize our ecosystem and engage support systems available such as our growing network of business accelerators, and the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, a support system from which AireHealth has benefited. Ray Dalio, author of the book “Principles,” is someone I admire greatly.

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Startup Communities – Where to Find Them and How to Get Involved

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The GIST Network assembled a panel of experts to discuss best practices in helping your ecosystem become more interconnected, supportive, and prosperous: Michelle Messina , co-author of the best-selling book Decoding Silicon Valley: The Insider’s Guide. Incubators / Accelerators. Investor networks. Coworking spaces. Universities.