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Hamilton Chan

Instructor

Hamilton Chan is the CEO of Coaching for Startups. Hamilton graduated phi beta kappa and magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard College and graduated from Harvard Law School. He worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan in Hong Kong and in New York, performing Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance work.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Hamilton was a corporate attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson, where his clients included Berkshire Hathaway and Kobe Bryant. He then worked at MGM as a Business Affairs executive in the Motion Picture Group, before leaving to run his family’s commercial printing company, a move that was chronicled in a feature in Los Angeles Magazine.

As a sole non-technical founder, Hamilton then launched a tech startup that was funded by $1.75 million of seed capital from Y Combinator, 500 Startups, SV Angel and Rustic Canyon Partners, among others.

Hamilton is the Instructor at GA for Business Fundamentals & Tactics, Sales & Business Development Immersive and Negotiation Workshop. After successfully selling his commercial printing business, Hamilton spends his time advising other startup founders as an executive coach, providing them counsel on everything from startup tactics to self-optimization. To learn more about Hamilton, please visit http://www.coachingforstartups.com.

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Negotiation Workshop

Negotiation Workshop

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Negotiation Bootcamp

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Business Fundamentals & Tactics

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This 10-week business course will teach you the fundamentals including financial and business modeling, market analysis, strategic marketing and more.

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How to Get a Job at a Startup

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Hear insights from one of Silicon Valley’s true insiders and learn about what it takes to fund and build a world-changing startup.

Advanced Negotiation Workshop

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Learn how to negotiate at an advanced level in 4 hands-on sessions taught by a graduate of Harvard College and former instructor at Harvard Law School.

Life Skills 3 Part Series: Supercharge Your Career

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In this 3 part series you will learn life skills around purpose, emotional intelligence, and personal wealth.

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Learn the basics of increasing your individual wealth, from investing strategies to the discarding of the limiting beliefs that are keeping you from getting rich.

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This 4-week course will train you to be successful in 21st century sales and business development roles.

Business Development & Sales

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In this 10-week course, students will learn the art of pitching and negotiation, and the digital tools needed to help acquire new customers and structure the deal-making process.

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