Review: Moments of Impact is a book about how to structure a strategic conversation. Two leading experts expound upon the creative process that allows teams to tackle their most challenging issues.
Great strategic conversations generate breakthrough insights by combining the best ideas of people with different backgrounds and perspectives. The book has some good ideas, but it’s much too repetitive.
Evert Zelaya joined Founders Space as a Mentor and Advisor.
Evert is on a mission to help people achieve greater confidence. Through his coaching sessions and workshop’s engaging discussions and exercises, attendees gain insight and actionable tips on confidence.
Evert has been leading workshops on confidence and self-esteem for the better part of a decade and has spoken in front of 100,000 people. He has worked as a coach for UnCollege: An educational startup based in San Francisco. Evert has also worked at academic research organizations such as The Institute for Scientific Analysis and The Public Research Institute focusing on social and cognitive research.
Ed Roman is now working closely with Founders Space.
He recently sold his startup HackHands to Pluralsight. HackHands accelerates developer productivity via mentoring.
Ed is the founder of hack.summit(), the largest programmer conference (and the largest virtual conference) in history. He also founded the hack.pledge() movement.
Never lose your temper. I can think of very few times in my life where losing my temper actually helped solve a problem. More often than not, it just allowed me to vent, while making others miserable and resentful. I’ve gotten far better results by keeping calm, treating people with respect, and focusing on the solution–not the problem. As my grandfather liked to say, better to build a bridge than burn one.
Jacquelynne Suguitan just joined Founders Space as a mentor and advisor.
Jacquelynne is a consultant for TriNet where her primary focus is advising technology clients on controlling their burn rate, decreasing operating expenses, and on hiring and retaining top talent.
Previous to TriNet, she worked closely with CPAs and accountants helping bootstrap startups to Series A companies ranging from international subsidiaries, manufacturing, VA/VR, biotech, SaaS, to dating apps. She’s a SF native and spends her free time volunteering by teaching Zumba at senior community centers.
Don Daglow is a pioneering game designer, executive and 2008 Technical Emmy® Award recipient whose career spans the history of the video games industry.
A three-time Inc. 500™ CEO, Don’s teams have shipped over $1 billion in software products. He advises a diverse mix of global clients, from small mobile game and app startups to large international publishers.
He also serves as an Advisor at the Founders Space Accelerator in San Francisco, and as the founding President of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation, the charitable wing of the Academy.
Founders Space and its 2 week program was intense and helpful. As a company that seeks to establish our business in the US market, Founders Space provided an accelerating program that perfectly fit our needs and gave me a lot of confidence in expanding our business to the global market.
I want to give special thanks to Steve Austin. On top of providing guidance on how to prepare a pitch deck and actually pitch, he also helped with developing our early stage business model as well as our go-to-market strategy. He is definitely an expert with a wide range of business experience and I was fortunate to have taken his classes.
Thank you!
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Dan Hussain has joined Founders Space as one of our mentors. He is an inventor, entrepreneur and patent agent who comes from a diverse, multicultural background which has inspired his creativity to attack world-wide problems like climate change and global healthcare. Dan’s educational background spans multiple institutions, including studies at MIT (electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, and computer science), Harvard (law and philosophy), and the University of Cambridge U.K. (theoretical geophysics).
Dan received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2004. He earned his M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and has continued towards his Ph.D. there.
Dan patented his own intellectual property related to energy and the Industrial Internet of Things. His IoT patents are licensed by major international companies. More recently, he’s been working on a book on patents for startups.
Review: Just read the book “Smarter Faster Better” by Charles Duhigg. The most interesting idea was that of creating mental models of the future, where you imagine various outcomes based on decisions you make and data from past experiences.
People who create detailed mental models perform better on the job and are more successful in life.
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