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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

TechCrunch

Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. The business world has a love-hate relationship with coaching. In any other industry, when someone with raw talent — an athlete, a singer, an actor — furthers their career, the first thing they receive is a coach. Return on coaching (ROC).

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Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products

TechCrunch

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. So far, Psykhe’s retail partnerships include Moda Operandi, MyTheresa, LVMH’s platform 24S, Outdoor Voices, Jimmy Choo, Coach and size-inclusive platform 11 Honoré. It has now raised $1.7

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Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products

TechCrunch

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. So far, Psykhe’s retail partnerships include Moda Operandi, MyTheresa, LVMH’s platform 24S, Outdoor Voices, Jimmy Choo, Coach and size-inclusive platform 11 Honoré. It has now raised $1.7

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Google shares its $2M Black Founders Fund among 30 European startups

TechCrunch

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

TechCrunch

We were able to advocate for the individual and design a bespoke coaching intervention that raised the profile within the process, showcasing objective potential and ensuring they were given an equitable chance. The individual we surfaced had no fashion experience and limited retail experience.

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10 ways to ace the IT executive interview

CIO

To help you nail the interview, I spoke to IT executives who have hired people for roles like this one, career coaches who counsel IT leaders on landing their next role, and other experts to find out what you should — and should not — do. Get an executive coach. But the fashion question doesn’t have a simple answer.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

It took Christine Tao, founder of Sounding Board, just over three years to recognize the value of executive coaching and get her company to a Series A. NFTs could bridge video games and the fashion industry. Music companies, celebrities and fashion brands are some of the latest entities to dip a toe into the burgeoning NFT market.

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