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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Christie Pitts, Backstage Capital’s general partner, talks about the early days of the Los Angeles-based company and how she got involved: Working in the music industry, Hamilton learned about startups and networked with investors and entrepreneurs. When she started Backstage, Arlan went all in on this idea.

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Lifestyle Entrepreneur Lewis Howes on the Power of Vulnerability and Authenticity

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Being a curious facilitator of life-changing information is exactly what Howes was aiming for when he launched the podcast in 2013, though the path to get there wasn’t exactly that of a conventional, starry-eyed entrepreneur. It was here that he opened up about his childhood sexual abuse for the first time. “I That was 2013.

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Donald Kelly—The Sales Evangelist—Is Out to Create a Community of World-Class Sellers

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His family’s yard in Jamaica had a large mango tree, so one day, he picked a few sweet, juicy mangoes, set up a table in the front yard, and tried to sell them to neighbors. “It Kelly got his first real sales gigs during college, where he did timeshare presentations and worked for Dish Network. It catapulted me.” Time To Hustle.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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While the network hoped Fox’s return would be a ratings boon, the series fought to find an audience. Fox grew up in a loving, supportive family that settled in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after his father retired. This never took up more space than it needed. This [is] a warm family show. That’s what he wanted to do.

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#130: Alissa Stearman (Executive Business Partner at sweetgreen) and Alexa Gundermann (Executive Business Partner at Tack Advisors)

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Alissa and Alexa discuss the dos and don’ts of developing a strong administrative team to support the co-founders and c-suite executives of a unicorn start-up. Alexa Gundermann has experience working for multiple start-ups in Manhattan and Los Angeles with the most recent role as Executive Assistant to the founders of sweetgreen.

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The Practically Perfect PA Advisory Panel

Practically Perfect PA

Practically Perfect PA has now been up and running for 5 years. There are now over 11,000 of you signed up to the blog posts and newsletters and we attract over 90,000 visitors each month on the website. I am Founder and Chair of Assistant Community EMEA (ACE) which is the assistant network for the EMEA region at BlackRock.

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The Practically Perfect PA Advisory Panel

Practically Perfect PA

Practically Perfect PA has now been up and running for 5 years. There are now over 11,000 of you signed up to the blog posts and newsletters and we attract over 90,000 visitors each month on the website. I am Founder and Chair of Assistant Community EMEA (ACE) which is the assistant network for the EMEA region at BlackRock.

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