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What Is So Different Between S Ilicon Valley Today And Valley In 2000s.?

Back in the day people went to Silicon Valley because they wanted to build companies; the offices were run down, and the glamour was none. People were poor, at least to start, but they were all excited about what they were doing. Now every office looks like it came from the Silicon Valley show, but people inside are deeply unhappy.


How Can You Manage Work And Parenting When Your Kids Don't Go To School?

Jason and Monica tried a little bit of everything, which included taking time off, hiring a nanny, having kids going to daycare, and a little bit more of constant runaround! Out of all the things they tried, at-home daycare seemed the most beneficial regarding pre-school stuff.


Where Did Shauna Go After San Francisco ?

After a year into her career, a company from LA hired her to open up their San Francisco office and subsequent offices.


What Does Grigor Say To Belinda?

He calls her English, her new nickname, and says that she suits black and that her breasts are better than Laura’s— his assistant with him in the casino. This is another time when stating Belinda’s breasts are better than another character’s.


What Is Pennycooke Is Doing Differently As She Starts Up Her Company Again?

At the first launch, she was targeting the executive individually. Now, she finds it better offered as an outplacement package. Her target clients are now the corporate placement managers.


What Are Some Stories That Have Shaped Joseph To Who He Is Today?

For Joseph, the first story is his love of a question. Specifically, what was there before the Universe? He was around the age of 10, living in Texas. He associates his time of life with this question, possibly due to a long bus ride and being outdoors a lot. He states he wasn’t wracking his brain for an answer — because there isn’t an answer — but he loved the question because it put himself into a calmed and simple state of mind that he enjoyed.

Playing off of his first story’s question, the world view of nothing is something has shaped his life because at the the core of our personality, there is an existence of Self. He thinks of a principle of the underlying creation, whatever that is, was his world view and early unconscious practice. Joseph states that our entire lives, consciously or unconsciously, are an attempt to move back toward that since it’s our original nature.


Where Is Hadley Fraser Teaching?

Hadley is teaching at the Performance Preparation Academy in Guilford https://ppacademy.co.uk/hadley-fraser/


What's The Big Vision For Kai Xr?

She wants all her users to end up building companies in the mixed reality space. She wants them to be able to do that with the skills they learned from Kai XR.


Is There Any Space In The Market For Spruce Nowadays?

Brandon asks Matt if he thinks there are any other products solving what they aimed to solve with Spruce and if there's any space for a product like it to re-flourish and belong in the market.


Why Sales Are All About Asking Questions And Listening?

Here is an example. You are a founder selling a product, and your prospect is asking you to send them three proposals, what does it mean?

They are not giving you enough context to understand their real needs. Why three, what are you they going to do with those proposals, what are they trying to accomplish, and who are going to look at those. Are they going to compare them with your competitors. ..etc?

Just doing the proposals is not going to make you successful until you understand in details what those proposals are going to do for the prospects, then you can craft just the right ones.

To get the details, you have to ask questions, dig in, and listen to everything you are told. Only then will you know enough to sell what you've got.


How Do You Find An Ideal Growth Partner?

Setup a partnership program and attract multiple partners to work with you. To start, figure out who is the best growth partner for your company, and who is not, and then go after them just like you would go after your potential customers.

Often times, companies that have already reached out and tried to partner with you are the ones you could consider first. After all, they have already expressed some interest.

Take a look at Close.io Partner Program for an example of how to setup your own program.


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