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Angel Fest 2024 Recap- The Dream Team

Mickayla Rosard

18 July 2024

Groove Capital’s Angel Fest is the signature event for angel investors in Minnesota. This year's conference offered comprehensive sessions on team management, the entrepreneurial process, and panel discussions with seasoned professionals digging deep into relevant topics for all early stage investors .

A crowd favorite was The Dream Team, by Jaime Taets of Keystone Group International. Her talk explored  the importance of investing in your team to maximize results.

Below are a few highlights, including a  personal testimony and leadership best practices for anyone looking to level up. She begins by discussing the three steps to create the ultimate growth advantage in people.

Shift Your Perspective:

In this section, Taets highlights the advantages and strengths of startups. She talks about the importance of perspective, and tells a local success story. 

 

Look Below the Surface for Strength

How important is team building really? In this clip, she covers the prerequisites to creating the dream team.

 

Creating a Conscious Leadership Culture

Here Taets talks about the most common reason people leave companies, and covers how this can be avoided through conscious leadership.

Culture Creates Outcomes :

What happens when all of these steps are put into action? In the final clip of this session, Jaime Taets connects expectations and results.

 

Pick up a few pointers? We did too. Hopefully you’re now ready to start building your dream team. Want more? Make sure to keep an eye out for more recaps from Angel Fest 2024.

Mickayla Rosard

Mickayla Rosard has bolstered the entrepreneurship ecosystem through access to capital. Throughout her career she has procured $138 million of investment into the upper Midwest. Mickayla's focus at Groove Capital is investor relations and growing the angel network. Mickayla also is a Fellow at Forge North, leading a statewide project to engage more angel investors, especially women and minorities. Mickayla first cut her teeth in venture in 2009 at Dakota Venture Group. She holds FINRA series 63 and 82 securities licenses.

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