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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

And launching and scaling these products requires a mastery of “network effects,” one of the most-used but misunderstood jargon terms in the industry. They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. The Hard Side of dating apps.