Sharon Nouh, CEO/Founder of ProSpend, talks startup mentality and the three things CEOs need to focus on.

Sharon Nouh, CEO/Founder of ProSpend, talks startup mentality and the three things CEOs need to focus on.

Author: Lighter Capital - We Help Startups Grow June 12, 2023 Duration: 29:08

In this week’s podcast, Melissa talks with Sharon Nouh, CEO and founder of ProSpend, a platform for proactive business spend management, to discuss Sharon’s journey from starting her company as an individual entrepreneur to bootstrapping to where it is today.  Sharon shares her insights on life as a women CEO, what she learned, which professional organizations she found most helpful, why a startup mentality is so important when hiring employees, and the three things every startup CEO needs to focus on (almost daily), and why they are crucial to success.  


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