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Questions

• What’s the best compensation structure for a VP/Head of Sales

• How do you manage someone that has an aggressive management style in your executive team?

• Personal crisis how to deal with it

• focus or spread

• Can separation in turbulent times be avoided?

• Teamleader’s first important steps

• Relational leadership – how to promote in expert work team

• Where can accurate information about startup finance, accounting, and VC be found?

• Team decisions

• How do you keep your job as CEO?

• Who typically gets recruited as a CEO?

• How do you manage a failing market?

• How important is it for a first time CEO to have an outside coach or a mentor?

• Distributing information within your team – Finding the right balance between transparency and confidentiality

• Business strategy and focus – How tight focus should you hold on becoming the world’s best at the specific thing you do?