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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. Expert Networks.

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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. CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. In other words, where do they congregate, what do they read, and what are their interests? Where can you find them?

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How to Fix a Broken Brand: Especially if All of Your Pivoting Still Hasn’t Worked Yet

Smart Hustle Magazine

Speak with a marketing or branding consultant before making any major shifts or changes in your company. Even if you cannot hire a full-blown marketing agency, just partner with a good consultant who can assist you with ensuring that your “new” branding goals and efforts will still help you reach your customers and drive revenue.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

But before you achieve product / market fit you’re often in “consultative sales” mode where your objective is to tease out customer needs. If they don’t then it’s a case of putting your prospect into a “marketing funnel” so that non-sales resources can focus on staying in touch with the customer through white papers, seminars, etc.

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The Station: Rounding up the Tesla Cyber Roundup, a Waymo change up and the mysterious disappearance of Bolt Mobility

TechCrunch

Uber Freight published a white paper that finds for commercializing autonomous trucking in the near-term, the hub-to-hub model is the most practical and economically feasible starting point. The white paper also found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that autonomous trucks will fill job gaps rather than replace human drivers. .

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What is the Best CRM and Marketing Tech Platform for a New Private Equity/Venture Capital Fund?

David Teten VC

The best predictor for failed Salesforce implementation is whether or not the firm uses a consultant with real experience of private equity to setup and maintain the platform. If you try and do it yourself or use a generalist consultant, you’re taking a big risk.”. downloadable white papers, models, etc).

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What Are Key Result Areas? How To Identify Them?

Feedough

For instance, a management consultant is responsible for several activities. They are the key result areas of the consultant. Each piece of work comprises three to five critical tasks. These essential jobs on which employees, departments and, organisations need to focus are the key result areas. Characteristics of Key Result Areas.