Category: Leadership
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How Rock Star CFO Tim Oakley Thinks About Hiring in the Finance Function
Tim Oakley, CFO of Appia and former CFO of iContact, is one of the Triangle’s best entrepreneurial executives. With multiple exits and financings under his belt, and a commitment to servant leadership, we are fortunate to have him mentoring and guiding a generation of entrepreneurs (like me!) in the Triangle (the New Entrepreneurial Hub of the South).…
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5 Critical Components of Building A Winning Startup Team
This week I was invited to speak at an entrepreneur’s only lunch hosted by CED, on the topic of building winning teams in a startup environment. The attached presentation highlights what I think of as 5 Critical Components of Building a Winning Startup Team. Founding Team – Share Equity and Play Fair Commander’s Intent –…
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Extraverts: Talk Think Talk, Introverts: Think Talk Think
One of our investors and mentors, John Fahlberg, is a retired executive who’s built and managed several companies, and has held executive posts with Target. Net: this guy’s got some time in the saddle. He does executive coaching these days to keep active, and we’ve been fortunate to have him run several sessions with our…
The Next 10,000 Hours 