TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The demand for a platform to make the art of advice more accessible is thus easy for entrepreneurs to identify then pitch, but the serendipity — or the chasm between what makes someone an effective mentor versus just a speed dial for questions — is harder for them to scale. It also works with corporations such as Wells Fargo.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Find advisors and mentors to build your business. Throughout this series I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I’m lucky to have mentors and advisors on my side, helping me to define a strategy for building 6Wunderkinder and Wunderlist. Together, they allowed us to start this company in a big way – they were investors and mentors.

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VisionLink

APRIL 21, 2015

as Mentor of the Month for April 2015! Jamie''s passions include working with children, education, disaster and humanitarian relief, poverty alleviation, and social services. When he isn''t working, volunteering, mentoring, you can find him on his snowboard hitting the slopes. Denver Kids, Inc.

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.orgSource

MAY 28, 2024

Focus on Mentoring Sue is a relationship builder. Mentoring is something I am passionate about,” Sue advised. Leadership training helps directors to learn and practice the skills needed to navigate the complexities of board service. Volunteers could join at any time during their service.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was the scenario for Mentor New York, a nonprofit that works with companies, schools and organizations to provide mentoring for organizations that serve more than 80,000 young people in New York. Like most nonprofits, Mentor New York had to pivot during the pandemic to virtual events and engagement for its supporters.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Once you know who is needed, you must explain exactly what the organization expects from their service both in terms of activities and culture. Ideally, one of these meetings will be a welcome from the executive director, which includes his or her unique advice and views on board service. Board service is an honor and a privilege.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By keeping all the board materials on a Google Drive (or another cloud storage service), these documents – whether they are bylaws, budgets, minutes, agendas – will make it easier for board members to keep track of documents, and not risk losing them when a board member’s computer crashes, or someone unexpectedly resigns. FULL BIO ].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

For over 10 years Heather has been my primary reference point and mentor for all things pertaining to online community management and social networking for nonprofits. Line Storgaard-Conley, Director of Interactive Services, Safe Kids USA / Safe Kids Worldwide. September 22: Book Tour Fundraiser begins ( View Schedule ). Testimonials.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Forty-four percent of members found mentoring to be important, but only 28 percent of pros, while again 44 percent of members thought help with career advancement was important, compared to just 28 percent of pros. Otherwise, you’re looking backwards, and listening to those who just want to click a radial button from Survey Monkey.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Changing the narrative about Black nonprofit leaders In a report on the subject, the nonprofit Service Never Sleeps mentions that Black leaders are often held to a standard of perfection to receive support or recognition.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonprofit board service is a serious matter! To be clear, showing up at meetings, making a financial contribution and attending the gala is not the total kit and caboodle for nonprofit board service. It is more like raising the bar each day by advocating for your mission and bringing your best self to service for your nonprofit. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This morning Salut , an app-based service that allows fitness trainers to host classes virtually, announced that it has raised $1.25 million in a new financing event. The round was led by Charles Hudson , an investor at Precursor Ventures. Let’s see how far Salut can get with $1.25

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

A financial services firm, for example, implemented a bonus system heavily weighted toward individual performance metrics. Invest in coaching and mentoring initiatives to help leaders build emotional intelligence, resilience, and strategic thinking. While some employees thrived, cross-department collaboration plummeted.

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The Next Web

APRIL 22, 2018

So, what strategy do these mentors themselves follow to reach their prospects and promote their services? There’s a myriad of online marketing strategists writing tons of tips on their blogs to help entrepreneurs get a bang for their bucks from digital media — while simultaneously using those strategies to get their message to you.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Startups will get an upfront investment of $1 million from Sequoia; mentoring on company design from partners and operators affiliated with the firm (eg, founders and other key people from companies that it has backed); and a field trip to a legendary company to see it all in action. “Europe is so fragmented.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2018

I’ve found in my entrepreneurial efforts, and when I’ve consulted and mentored other companies, that a great product or service will only take you so far. Without the right marketing tools in place to back it up, that great idea will likely go overlooked and forgotten, no matter how fresh or exciting an idea it might be.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Beyond the products and services they create, they inspire a religious following of customers. Or are you a sponsor and mentor? I have found that the most effective mentors know when to offer hands-on support and when to step away and let the employee struggle to understand a new idea or cultivate a new skill. Above all else.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

To fit its overseas ideals, SparkLabs boasts an impressive line-up of advisers and mentors — and a dozen more have joined recently, including Sang Cha, who built one of software company SAP’s core platforms, as well as Spindle’s Pat Kinsel who recently sold his company to Twitter, and Ty Ahmad-Taylor, who is Head of Smart TV Services at Samsung.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a partner at Seedcamp , an early stage mentoring and investment program that engages startups through monthly Seedcamp Events, where entrepreneurs present their companies, network, receive mentoring, and compete for investment by Seedcamp. “If How is a founder’s vision applied?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2011

For over 10 years Heather has been my primary reference point and mentor for all things pertaining to online community management and social networking for nonprofits. Line Storgaard-Conley, Director of Interactive Services, Safe Kids USA / Safe Kids Worldwide. e-Newsletter. Testimonials.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 2, 2012

Creativity Explored works with more than 120 artists with developmental disabilities, providing services that help these artists create, exhibit, and sell their art. During our holiday party, we displayed thirty pieces of art provided by Creativity Explored , a San Francisco-based nonprofit arts organization. You can too!

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Bonterra

JUNE 15, 2022

Whether you’re providing shelter for the homeless, mentoring at-risk youth, or anything in between, nonprofit service organizations like yours do incredibly important work to enrich their clients’ lives.

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The Verge

MAY 6, 2021

The drivers don’t work for Amazon directly, but instead for companies known as Delivery Service Partners, and they report that their managers or dispatchers ask them to turn off Amazon’s Mentor app after leaving it running long enough to get a good score. They were harsh on drivers that weren’t going as fast as they wanted.”.

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The Next Web

MARCH 31, 2013

I don’t know many entrepreneurs who aren’t better served by the opportunity to talk candidly to their peers and others in the startup community, from VCs to mentors, angels and executives who’ve been there, done that — and mentor other up-and-comers along the way. We stress service above all else.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

In our effort to highlight brilliant changemakers, we sat down with Cylinda Nickel at Compassion Services International to dive deeper into their global fundraising initiatives – particularly their work for Ukraine- and hear about her top fundraising tips. About Compassion Services International.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

Services like OpenAIs Deep Research are very good at internet-based research projects like, say, digging up background information for a Vox piece. That said, part of Blooms skepticism about full-remote work comes from his belief in the importance of mentoring, which is much harder to do in a remote work setup.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2019

posted by Susan Nusall Director of Volunteers at Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education/Arizona Bar Foundation. Our organization, the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education/Arizona Bar Foundation, is 40 years old, and we have always believed in volunteers and how much we need them in order to fulfill our mission.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic Services Inc. “We’re building cloud services, and we’ll have a generous free tier and usage-based pricing after that,” Colvin continued. It’s worth noting here that although Sequoia has been looking to invest in European founders, the new Pydantic Services Inc. and Europe.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. Instead of letting users sign up and start using your service immediately, put them into a waiting list which you slowly work through. You are getting your users to advertise your service for you to their friends.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. Coaches on the platform charge an hourly rate for their services that Leland says is much cheaper than traditional services.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2021

Maddalena Cursone, Client Services Team – Maddalena recently graduated from Babson College with her Bachelor of Science in Global Business Management & Strategic Management. Jacob Lagmay, Design Team – Jacob recently graduated from Oregon State University with his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Psychology minor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. TAM (total addressable market) is the total revenue possible if a product or service were to achieve 100% market share. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor.

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Which products and services should be bundled with member dues vs. sold separately? Providing different member segments with content, products and services you know they value will help improve overall member engagement and optimize your marketing campaigns. What questions are you trying to answer with analytics?

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Career coaches and mentors are great. Mirroring dialogue can seem like that annoying customer service tactic designed to calm unhappy campers. (“I If you don’t already have a professional support system, I urge you to find objective advisors. You can’t rely on staffers in your organization to fill this role. What’s your opinion?”

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