Meet Jane Miller: Founder of JaneKnows.com

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 21:24:06 +0000

Meet Jane Miller: Founder of JaneKnows.com Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/09/2018 - 15:24

Mackinsey Kinder

After 30+ years of corporate experience in executive positions at companies like Frito Lay, Heinz, Hostess and Rudi's Organic Bakery, Jane Miller authored Sleep Your Way to the Top (and other myths about business success) in 2014 to help others learn from her experiences and her mistakes. Today she runs JaneKnows.com, an online career resource center for young professionals climbing the corporate ladder. Jane is an accomplished CEO, career expert, public speaker, and author, helping you build a meaningful career with tips, tools, and truths.

In her experience Jane found it's often soft skills, not technical skills, that foster gender inequality in the workplace. There is a lack of understanding of the differences in personal attributes amongst colleagues with diverse work styles.

Jane is an accomplished CEO, career expert, public speaker, and author, helping you build a meaningful career with tips, tools, and truths.

Jane suggests professionals, particularly entrepreneurs, surround themselves with a "personal advisory board." Create a team of honest and supportive people who can be trusted to offer good advice, but more importantly, offer candid feedback regarding soft skills such as tonality and communication style. These areas can have a significant impact on professional success, but are often avoided or not discussed in a constructive manner within teams and by managers.

Your advisory board should possess a complementary skill set that allows the entrepreneur to focus on their strengths. When pitching ideas, entrepreneurs should not be deterred or intimidated by questions that challenge their product, ideas or abilities. Instead, Jane encourages you to be confident in you communication, and in the depth of your knowledge and understanding of your product or service. She stresses that entrepreneurs should not be afraid to table questions for later follow-up if you don't feel certain about their answers.

For more practical career advice presented in a fun and sassy tone, visit JaneKnows.com.

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Meet Marco Vienna: Co-Founder of SmartCapital

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:43:26 +0000

Meet Marco Vienna: Co-Founder of SmartCapital Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/26/2018 - 15:43

Erick Mueller

Marco Vienna believes entrepreneurship is the driving force behind "solving the world's largest problems." As a co-founder of SmartCapital, Marco and his team solved an important one: allowing anyone to invest in venture capital funds.

In the past, venture capital investing was reserved for the 0.1%, the ultra-rich. SmartCapital democratizes venture capital investing, representing 99.9% of investors. On the SmartCapital marketplace, people have the opportunity to invest in an array of venture funds, which diversifies investing from one venture backed company to many. Customers can also sell their shares through a secondary market, creating more liquid assets.

Marco saw this opportunity while working in the financial technology industry, and made the difficult decision of dropping out of college to pursue it. SmartCapital is his third FinTech company. He previously started Lucid Investments, a crowdfunding brokerage that let people set up investment funds with their friends, and Kickfurther, a platform that enables people to fund inventory for scaling product businesses.

"entrepreneurship is the driving force behind "solving the world's largest problems."

- Marco Vienna

Marco considers the micro-decisions that he makes each day and the macro-decisions that he makes each quarter as the predictors of his fate. One macro-decision included raising funds from Tim Draper, a well-known venture capitalist, while at Kickfurther. He relies on his confidence, humility and perseverance as an entrepreneur, and believes that the millennial generation will benefit greatly from SmartCapital investing.

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