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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

These were people with mutual friends living around you, the sort of person you might meet in real life! They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. Connecting with Facebook also made sure you would never be shown to friends, or vice versa, if you were worried about that.