Leadership Investing with Leib Bolel: Lead to Succeed 84
Investing in startups can both be risky and rewarding.
To ensure a strong investment, it’s critical for venture capitalists to be able to distinguish a good investment from a bad one.
How can one tell when something is of high growth potential?
In this episode, Leib Bolel addresses this question as well as why it is important to invest in great leaders first.
Leib is a Partner at Grayhawk Capital, Arizona’s largest Venture Capital firm with a focus on investment in early growth stage software companies. Leib also serves as President of the Arizona Israel Technology Alliance overseeing the facilitation of growth in bilateral trade between the technology communities of Arizona and Israel.
With over a decade of experience in the area of new business development, startups, marketing, funding acquisition and general operations management, Leib has been instrumental in building organizations from the ground up.
Listen in and learn why investing in great leaders is more important than investing in great products.
This episode is sponsored by the Impactful Business Leadership Mastermind.
The mastermind brings together hungry entrepreneurs and business owners who want to scale their business, share ideas and solutions, grow, and be held accountable, and build their networks.
Key Talking Points of the Episode:
[02:04] What drove Leib to choose early growth stage software companies as his investment focus
[05:05] Leib’s view when it comes to using one’s passion as a starting point for success
[08:04] Leib’s idea on the importance of “paying it forward” and helping people grow as well
[11:12] How to maximize a company’s customer success team
[12:37] How do you know if something or someone is a good “investment?”
[15:46] How do you help people who lack the necessary resources grow as a leader?
[19:26] What are the qualities or characteristics of a great mentor?
[20:54] The Arizona Israel Technology Alliance and Its Primary Objectives and Successes
[24:14] What is it about Israeli culture that lends itself so much to innovation and creativity?
[27:31] What has been the biggest transformation you have witnessed around you that was an outcome of a significant challenge?
[29:21] What was your biggest failure and how did you overcome it?
[31:33] Rapid fire questions
Standout Quotes from the Episode:
“I think that helping people with their careers and theirs jobs is the ultimate form of charity.”
“You can always make the product better; you can’t make the leadership team better.”
“I don’t want them to have a box; there should be no box there.”
“Being able to think five steps ahead of the game is a necessity.”
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