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When digital and science serve the needs of modern sustainability.

Lev Mikulitski

Jul 29, 2021
5 min

When digital and science serve the needs of modern sustainability.

Poultry farming is rearing any or all domesticated fowls, including chicken, geese, ducks, and turkeys for their meat or eggs. Poultry farming is a vibrant segment that contributes to food security and availability worldwide. Poultry meat remains the most consumed meat around the world, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all animal meat products. And while in recent years there has been much discussion about sustainability, environmental issues, and protein intake from non-a

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Lev Mikulitski

Feb 7, 2021
6 min

You are your own brand! Develop It.

Your world will forever be intertwined with your personality and hence you must develop your personality and your personal brand. Today the world of self-branding is hot and kicking. There are hundreds of books on the subject, hundreds of experts. And I personally very much agree with this approach. In a world where there is constant abundance, our ability to develop a unique personality is simply a necessity. And why do you ask ?! it's simple. I believe in mastering your own

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Raise venture capital? Hope is a bad strategy you can apply.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 31, 2021
1 min

Raise venture capital? Hope is a bad strategy you can apply.

I see a lot of startups raising capital and there is one common denominator that is repeated over and over again - the attempt to hang on to “hope” and even turn it into a guiding strategy. Well, hope cannot be the strategy in this case! Raising from venture capital funds and even from private investors, is a process of "complex sale", a process in which you entrepreneurs sell shares of your company and therefore requires careful planning from who you sell to, how you sell it

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If you could take on one skill only, building a social capital would be it.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 26, 2021
6 min

If you could take on one skill only, building a social capital would be it.

As the economy dramatically shifts, fundamental questions are being raised about the readiness of the working professionals to handle the "jobs" of the future. In an effort to assess how "top of mind" these skills and competencies are, the American Management Association surveyed 2115 managers and top executives about the importance of the same. This survey defined the most critical skills for organizational success as follows: Critical thinking and problem solving – the abil

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A growth mindset vs. fixed mindset... or, can we predict success.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 24, 2021
5 min

A growth mindset vs. fixed mindset... or, can we predict success.

Have you ever asked yourself: how is it that some people are so successful and others just are not? What differentiates them? What are the little things that can make a person successful or predict success? Does success depend only on us? Or is it all fate that has been forced upon us? In this article, you'll learn about the awesome power of your beliefs, particularly something called the growth mindset. After decades, researchers have found that our beliefs about ourselves,

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An exit strategy, either you have it or you are not in the right direction.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 18, 2021
1 min

An exit strategy, either you have it or you are not in the right direction.

Exit strategy, what a powerful expression, and today one of the most popular in the media due to the COVID situation. But not only. It is also one of the most important slides in your pitch deck. Anyone working on an investor presentation, stop for a moment. Do you have a reference to EXIT? A strategy, No? Remember one very simple thing: when you refer to investors in order to get an investment and especially if you are in the early stages, you need to have a very clear exit

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Master the art of listening when pitching your startup to investors.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 18, 2021
1 min

Master the art of listening when pitching your startup to investors.

When you pitch to investors, balance between talking and listening. Conversation with investors, like any effective communication process, is listening and reflecting. Listening is critical, as the listening process reveals patterns of opposition on the part of the potential investor, including insights that are important to take on the road. The objections are the biggest treasure an entrepreneur can get in a presentation. But if you are in an automatic mode of telling your

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An investor presentation is a well-paved way to a concrete destination.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 18, 2021
1 min

An investor presentation is a well-paved way to a concrete destination.

Entrepreneurs, you're pitching your startup to an investor?! Stop for a moment and remember Lewis Carroll's masterpiece: "Would you please tell me, which way should I go from here?", "It largely depends on where you want to go," the cat said. "I do not care so much where -" said Alice. "So, no matter which way you go," the cat said. How simple, how amazing ... and yet, I see countless investor presentations that are a wonderful expression of "no matter which way you go". An i

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You motivate for action but do not see results? Maybe your goals are not smart enough.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 17, 2021
4 min

You motivate for action but do not see results? Maybe your goals are not smart enough.

Have you ever been told to do your best? It's a goal, right? It's a form of goal setting. It turns out it's not a particularly effective goal in terms of driving people's performance. In short, most people, when asked to do their best, don't do so. And yet I hear a lot of internal speeches from executives in organizations who speak exactly that way. While language shapes reality, it is important to root out proper professional language that will translate into effective actio

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Business success is a matter of skills and not secret prescriptions.

Lev Mikulitski

Jan 3, 2021
3 min

Business success is a matter of skills and not secret prescriptions.

Anyone who knows me and my worldview know one thing: Success or failure is a matter of management and management only. Add to that passion and vision and you have unstoppable power. Note, a company can have an excellent product line and deep pockets, but if its management fails in a creative, effective, and visionary way to harness all the resources in the organization to go in a certain direction, then bankruptcy is a matter of time. In fact, the cemeteries are full of compa

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The innocence of ignorance: The most significant engine of growth.

Lev Mikulitski

Dec 30, 2020
4 min

The innocence of ignorance: The most significant engine of growth.

For the past year and a half, I have been assisting companies with a wide range of growth challenges. During this time, I touched on something like 35 companies, most of them technology companies at the beginning of their journey. With some of these companies, I had brief interactions between one specific counseling session and three sessions, with some of the companies it was a structured process of three to six months. Some of the CEOs of the companies I worked with became

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