This year, I had the honor of returning as emcee of PitchBlack, the pitch event for Black founders. Like a live Shark Tank, PitchBlack awards funding to people with business ideas. But unlike Shark Tank, these awards are grants, not investment. That means that these founders keep ownership of their businesses and their ideas. And […]
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After nearly 30 years in business, 1,4Group was integrating a new CEO for the first time since its father & son founders had started the company. Through a lot of hard work by the founders, loyal staff, and fortunate changes in the industry, the company had been thrust into growth mode. The challenge: how
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Did you miss one of your goals last season? There are several reasons you may not have reached a goal… or that you continue to miss a goal you set repeatedly. Goal failure is a symptom, not a cause. As your primary care strategist, I’m here to diagnose the real reason. You set the wrong
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Are you hiding? A significant number of my clients are thought leaders; experts in their respective fields with the credentials and experience to back it up. Their career goals include publishing a book, booking bigger speaking engagements, becoming a go-to media expert. Mysteriously, these goals seem to stall out for months, even years. They have
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The most valuable thing we do here at Pregame is to help you create and achieve your goals. Not just any goals, but the goals you truly want most. We exist to show you exactly how to turn your vision into reality. The first step is to clarify your vision. You can’t create a game
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You know those items on your goal list that you just can’t seem to achieve? Big confession: even this goal-getter has those insurmountable items that get stuck in goal purgatory. The biggest one that keeps getting pushed to next week, then next month, has been: Getting support for myself. Those of you with a service
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This spring, we had the pleasure of partnering with The Street Trust, a multimodal transportation advocacy organization based in the Portland Metro area, to revamp their strategic plan for the post-pandemic world. Sarah Iannarone, the organization’s interim executive director, had collaborated with Pregame in her role as director of First Stop Portland and as a
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