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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Miranda Naiman, accidental entrepreneur, motivational speaker, member of the EO Tanzania chapter and founder of Empower Limited , a Tanzanian human capital consultancy firm. While commendable, this effort to invest in strategy doesn’t work unless the company also focuses on culture. Energy is infectious.

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Supporter Profile: Magnify Consulting

NZ Entrepreneur

Who: Magnify Consulting What: Sales strategy, CRM, outsourced, tradeshows NZ HQ: Wellington Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? At Magnify, we help founders of SMEs to grow a healthy sales pipeline without the risk of hiring. Sales strategy + sales process Get set up for sales success.

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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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Should Founders Still Raise in an Economic Downturn?

Dream It

Jason sat down with Steve Barsh , Managing Partner of Dreamit, to give founders relevant downturn strategies. Jason answers critical questions for founders, including: How can your company ensure survival? If a customer is not looking to adopt your product, there may still be consulting work your team can do. Resiliency.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Whenever I meet a team that had a consulting firm (even a great one) build their product it’s an immediate “pass&# from me. But for non-technical founders let me offer you a definition that you can use when you build a team. I don’t believe it.

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Three Words Entrepreneurs (and VC’s) Should Take to Heart

Both Sides of the Table

” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. What would the right technology strategy for Telecom Italia be in 5 years.

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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

Both Sides of the Table

Anyway, I spent the first part of my career consulting for large companies. Accenture always had a chip on it’s shoulder in strategy consulting – especially compared with McKinsey, BCG and Bain. We called it “integrated strategy.&# I actually think from a marketing perspective it could have been brilliant.