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Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

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The San Francisco startup connects anyone from first-time managers to C-suite executives with coaches through a marketplace. Revenue has doubled or tripled every year since 2016, which the company says hovers in the “multi-millions” range. Tao admits that the startup isn’t for everyone.

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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

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Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. This publication last covered Metafy in May 2021 , when the company raised a $5.5 Metafy doesn’t take a cut of coach income when they use its platform; it charges students a 5% fee.

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This founder wants to take on the biggest coaching startups with a group-focused approach

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Nishika de Rosairo , the founder and chief executive of HumanQ , has a vision for employee coaching that disagrees with some of the biggest, and most valuable startups out there. De Rosairo declined to provide the company’s valuation, but said that it ultimately was “really great and fair.”

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

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The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

Additionally, many companies lack the tools and processes to validate their ideas without adding them to their Sprint Backlog. Product teams tend to get ahead of themselves by rushing from idea straight to building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). How can a product manager slow their team down and prevent them from wasting valuable resources?

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How to make coaching work for your sales team

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That’s why personalized approaches to learning and development initiatives, like one-on-one coaching, can be so transformative. A coach should design each coaching journey based on an individual’s growth and learning goals. Here’s how: Identify a sales coach. External coaches are typically certified third-party partners.

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TaskHuman lands $20M to expand its virtual coaching platform

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TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures. Image Credits: TaskHuman.

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Bridging the Online and Offline: How to Apply Product Thinking to Expanding Your eCommerce Business

Speaker: John Cutler, Product Evangelist and Coach at Amplitude

Companies have to develop new muscles, challenge their existing biases, and “learn as fast as they ship.”. Join John Cutler, Product Evangelist and Coach at Amplitude, for this enlightening discussion on the current state of the ecommerce landscape.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

In this webinar, Transformational Coach Kim Antelo will walk through a case study of a healthcare company with lofty OKRs, but with little tie-back to the product performance. The best product teams evaluate themselves not by the quantity or speed with which they release new features, but by how much those features add value.