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50 Best Twitter Chats For Business Students

YoungUpstarts

Join the conversation Thursdays at 1 p.m. This chat touches on a wide range of topics, including social media, marketing, advertising, technology, and PR. This chat brings together professionals from journalism, blogging, and PR to talk about a wide range of issues. Marketing and PR. Management and Leadership.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) EQ and Team Leadership? You don’t really have much to go on to decide who would make a good fit. Reputation of firm?

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. The bottom line is that the investors had never had these conversations. I’m not a big believer in too much hierarchy.

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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

I think that we've done a decent job with that, and we have a number of examples of individuals who have used it as a leadership platform, but it isn't as much of a leader factory as I had hoped. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. Run two nextNY events (e.g.

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The End of Innocence

Steve Blank

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Her husband would look at me out the corner of his eyes and then we’d segue the conversation to some other topic.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. About 18 months later, we pivoted our messaging to evolve beyond digital PR. The goal was simple: validate demand or move on. Image source ).

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How To Build Great Leadership Teams

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Build Great Leadership Teams written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In 2009, he co-founded a new firm, Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on working with CEOs to unleash the potential of their leadership teams. Key Takeaway: Leadership teams have an enormous impact on their organizations.