Auro is a smart box for smartphones that would help families pay more attention to each other and less to their devices. Alexa tells us what it was like to launch her financial advice platform, LearnVest, just a year after the global recession. Stacey Phillips had a brand in insights at Capital One Business. And we're back with an inspired capital on when and when not to take advice.
Smart entrepreneurs know one of the secrets to scale is leveraging wisdom from others. (In fact, that’s the mission of this show!) But not all advice is right for you right now — and some can even be disastrous. As the founder of the proto-fintech platform LearnVest, Alexa von Tobel scaled her business by seeking advice from mentors and friends … and then, taking only the advice that served her mission. Following Alexa’s story, you’ll learn how to become a good advice detective, with the power to sort the transformative advice from the traps.
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