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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. One of those partnerships is with Startup America , who was also featured at the lunch. Startup America is an example. We invest in Code for America (“Peace Corps for Geeks”). Our website.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Leadership over backbenchers? I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25.

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Heartfelt Leadership: The Pandemic Has Revealed The Truth About Your Heart

YoungUpstarts

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring “ A couple months ago, a crisis hit the world — one that changed almost everything about how companies operate. As an entrepreneur, she has accelerated advancement for women to senior leadership.

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How To Create Happy Employees — And Why It’s Even More Vital Now

YoungUpstarts

by Deb Boelkes, author of “ Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring “ Happy employees are the best kind. In my book “ Heartfelt Leadership ” I laid out the path to heartfelt leadership. “You can’t do blanket leadership. Take the 1,100 employees I have.

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15 Entrepreneurs Describe Their Leadership Styles

Hearpreneur

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. My leadership style is a direct reflection of my personality: driven, competitive and compassionate. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, and this year ranked in the Inc.5000 2- Reflection of my personality.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. Nothhaft, in his new book “ Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership ” are already calling these last ten years the “Lost Decade.” More and more people, like Henry R.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. I suggested that Chile’s mining industry could contribute to building innovation leadership by funding a multi-tiered initiative in the country’s leading universities: Professional management training (obvious and immediate payback). See below.).