TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money).

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Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In 2009, Professor Zywicki was the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Charles G. From 2005-2009 was the eleventh most-highly cited law professor in the fields of Commercial Law and Bankruptcy and the most-cited Commercial Law and Bankruptcy scholar under the age of 45 (at that time).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

This is the career record of Larry Gelwix, coach of the Highland High rugby team (Salt Lake City) for more than three decades. This team was featured in the recent movie Forever Strong.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. When black & white becomes permanently blurred so that everything reads as shades of grey, things can become dicey.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability? While I have a few swiss watches, my Timex Ironman is still my favorite.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

Some of the writers pointed out that these were two different sports and couldn’t be compared. Whether it’s the style of play in a sport, or leadership style in the business world, men and women are clearly and obviously different. A lot of people said a lot of pretty dumb things. Can’t we all just get along?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. All three of these individuals have had a profound and positive impact on those individuals and organizations which they have led. Mike Myatt : If you could offer any of our readers’ specific advice about leadership what would that be?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks? One question: in addition to the hierarchy (focused accountability) you identify so well, is it still possible that leadership can emerge at any level?

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

(Note: While I’m at SOBCon NW this weekend, I wanted to repeat one of my favorite past posts (from June of 2009), that is also featured in my free e-book “ Leadership From a Glass Half-Full “ ). Think of the camaraderie, the smiles, the feelings of satisfaction, the pats on the back, and yes, the celebrations.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. It is more critical than ever in today’ economic climate that leadership development be a top priority for CEOs who want to build a thriving enterprise moving forward. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

He compares it to halftime in sports (games like basketball and American football) that have a break during games. In his book HALFTIME: Moving from Success to Significance , author Bob Buford explores three stages of life: The first half: On average, the first 40 years of your life.

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QAspire

JUNE 29, 2010

I have heard Harsha Bhogle’s speech at IIMA on Sports and Excellence and he also shared some GREAT insights there. Ditto with sports. It is easy to get overwhelmed by the enormity of our goals - but we need to remember that an elephant can only be eaten one piece at a time!

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Even in so-called “individual sports&# such as running, race car driving or gymnastics, the athletes depend on many other people for their success. Most of the time the new opportunities are not obvious; after all, when things become obvious they are usually past the “opportunity&# stage.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

Champions: Usually associated with sports, the word champions identifies the ultimate winners. It’s the fuel that gets you going in the morning. It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day. You receive power from eating. These are the people who have worked smart and hard to achieve a goal. They work together.

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Steve Farber

MAY 17, 2012

I grew up having dreams of playing in the NBA, anchoring Sportscenter, and all kinds of different professions involving sports. I taught Health and PE for 3 years at the high school level and then was the unfortunate victim of budget cuts at the end of the 2009 school year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Founded in 2009, Strava has emerged as one of the preeminent activity tracking services, proving particularly popular in the cycling and running fraternities which use the Strava app to plot routes, converse with fellow athletes, and record all their action for posterity via GPS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya currently writes about leadership, in sport, work and life on Elevati’s Blog at www.elevati-inc.com/blog.  Each story brings a relevant analogy to the business issue at hand, making the learning more fun, the process guarantee more impact, and the happiness-meter on high.

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QAspire

JULY 8, 2010

Again coming to an abstract from Harsha Bhogle’s speech on Achievers of Excellence, he said - Everytime I start a new day for live sports commentry, I keep a target to be better in quality than the last performace. Secondly as Tanmay said, Quality never has boundries, it’s always an ongoing improvement process.

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CIO

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Clean air, inside and out Founded in 2009, ActoVent was initially a specialist wholesaler for residential ventilation, but expanded to include air filters and protective products for a range of buildings, air measurement technology, and maintenance and consulting services.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

My father passed away in 2009, but his imprint is still palpable there on the lake—nowhere more strongly than on the bookshelves. I was fortunate to be able to spend three weeks at the family lake house in northwestern Michigan in August. My son John and his wife Julie were able to join us for one of our weeks. Disruptive?

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Capgemini

MARCH 23, 2023

Between 2009 – 2019 in the UK, all-ethnic teams received an average of 1.7% We need to widen the view of who and what innovators are, and value a wider range of innovation skillsets than merely those of having the idea: implementing innovation is a team sport which benefits from having people who can complement and challenge one another.

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The Recovering Engineer

AUGUST 3, 2010

Like so many other issues that surface in the discussion of how to lead a team (business, sports, family, church, etc), the rule-relationship issue is a both-and scenario rather than an either-or scenario. They might say that only relationship matters as a leader. Well, I wouldn’t go that far either.

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Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

On-sale: March 3, 2009. With GREATER THAN YOURSELF: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership (Doubleday Business; On-sale: March 3, 2009), Steve Farber brings the age old principle to the forefront of our every day working lives and careers. So do great teachers and sports coaches. On-sale: March 3, 2009. IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Like HubSpot, but HubSport : TeamSnap is making it easier to manage youth sports organizations — scheduling, team management, etc. The company has been around since 2009 and just launched a new set of tools. Today, it launched an iOS version of its web3 and crypto-friendly browser. Image Credits: Alex Trautwig / Getty Images.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Few Parallels Between Sports, Life and Leadership Last few months, I have been playing Table Tennis regularly. We can draw a lot of parallels between sports, life and leadership – because ultimately, all of these are a way to express ourselves better. That’s what every sport teaches us!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Talk to other entrepreneurs, but only accept advice from the successful. Seeking ideas from other industries does not take as much time as it takes paying attention to hone an awareness. Ideas come from everywhere! Try new approaches.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 8, 2019

While the main worry in 2009 may have been a website going down, today’s problems have grown increasingly complex. In this increasingly complex ecosystem, she says, running operations is like an extreme sport. Ten years of PagerDuty. billion connected devices globally. billion connected devices globally.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Well, he’s a poor sport as far as I’m concerned. I do know that Lysacek understood the rules of the game he was playing better than Plushenko. Lysacek applied the rules to his program, and he was the victor. Now Plushenko plays the victim and cries foul. Plushenko blames, criticizes, and ridicules Lysacek. I don’t think so.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Lance November 29, 2009 at 9:52 pm Love is a powerful word…or maybe even better…a powerful action. lucnypes November 30, 2009 at 6:36 am Living 99 years without love would be very very exhausting. Mike Henry November 30, 2009 at 8:48 am Terry, thanks for the great post. Great stuff!! Thank you for the post, Terry.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Over the years I have worked with Olympic athletes, sports people, TV & media personalities as well as a wide range of successful leaders, managers and entrepreneurs from the public and private sectors. . This article is © Mike Morrison 2006-2009 All rights reserved.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Way different – a professional sports team. Because like most other red-blooded men I am quite fond of sports, the thought of being associated with it at that level was intoxicating. Lance December 21, 2009 at 5:51 am Terry, Happy 4th blog birthday!! Clark Rich Becker December 21, 2009 at 11:15 am Great story Terry.

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BrainStation Technology

AUGUST 2, 2019

In 2009, Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist predicted that “the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians.” Already, data has had a dramatic impact on everything from sports (include the Raptor’s NBA championship ), community building , and efforts to spearhead societal change. We Are in the Age of Big Data .

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2013

With remaining employees grateful to have kept their jobs, and with the economy leveling off rather than staying in freefall, corporate profitability rebounded as early as 2009. From early 2009, healthy companies boosted their capital spending. Smart leaders got in front of this. 1 They used their capital in three ways.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

At the same time, this kind of leadership style might not be very beneficial in traditional male settings such as military or organized sports. Retrieved June 9, 2009, from EBSCO MegaFILE database. Retrieved June 9, 2009, from EBSCO MegaFILE database. Retrieved June 9, 2009, from EBSCO MegaFILE database. 2007, March).

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QAspire

JULY 18, 2010

Team work plays a crucial role in success of any nature of project in any field, be it a manufacturing, construction, s/w or sports. Sports provide numerous examples of how highly connected and motivated individuals work wonders on the field. I am so glad you found the post stronger than a ginger tea!

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