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Newsletter #26: Revealed: The 2024 Next Billion-Dollar Startups List
Sue Mysko
August 22, 2024
SCALE UP Newsletter #26
Welcome to Scale Up, the smarter way to grow with fractional executives.
In this edition:
🏆 The 2024 Next Billion-Dollar Startups List
🧑💼 CEOs Are Running Companies From Afar Even as Workers Return to Office
🚀 How to Boost Success by Overcoming the Illusion of Control
Let’s dive right in. 👇🏼
CEOs Are Running Companies From Afar Even as Workers Return to Office
New CEOs at big companies like Victoria’s Secret and Starbucks aren’t necessarily living in the same city or even the same state as their headquarters. This trend of leaders working from a distance is growing, especially as many employees face less flexibility.
With executives managing from afar, it raises interesting questions about how this will affect corporate culture and employee engagement.
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How A.I. Can Help Start Small Businesses
Entrepreneurs say the use of artificial intelligence for a variety of tasks is accelerating the path to hiring and, ideally, profitability.
Learn how one professor at Carnegie Mellon University encouraged his students to use generative artificial intelligence to develop their start-up ideas.
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How to Build a Startup in a Country You Are Not From
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How to Boost Success by Overcoming the Illusion of Control
It has been a challenging period for business owners, grappling with economic uncertainty, shifting consumer behaviors, inflation, and mental well-being struggles.
The effort to control what is uncontrollable often results in frustration, anxiety, and worry.
How do you shift your focus?
