StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

In April 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning to wreak havoc on markets, commerce, communities and the general public, I started a business along with a group of friends. That’s not as crazy as it sounds because entrepreneurs started businesses in record numbers in 2020: there were over 4 million businesses formed last year in the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2020

We asked Adrienne to tell us more about the MyEO Tasimba leadership experience. She reminds me daily to stay connected to all I learned about myself and the world during our MyEO trip into the Tasimba leadership experience. We immersed ourselves in the culture and the community. Here’s what she shared: .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

The EO Global Leadership Conference (GLC) is a two-day, intensive training conference for EO members who volunteer to be leaders in their chapter or region. The high-caliber leadership content and unique experience of networking with other leaders make GLC one of the top entrepreneurial conferences of the year.

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand’s representation of reality begins with and grows under the leadership of a company’s founders, its CEO and its top executives. A brand should be rooted in a company’s heritage and culture, connected to a set of core values that are the company’s very reason for being. Most aren’t.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2023

Since the pandemic began in 2020, many companies have moved toward hybrid and remote working arrangements. It is easy to imagine that some unhappy individuals might have been persuaded to stay had they been acknowledged for their contributions by the leadership. Initially, this might seem unusual.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But, the last nine years has provided many nuggets for entrepreneurs to learn from, in terms of how to approach leadership. This article summarizes the best of those leadership lessons to potentially apply in your businesses. So, make sure your hires fit your desired culture, as you can't afford to have any "bad apples" in the bushel.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These employees detailed a low-morale work environment, due in part to the way that leadership sets frantic strategy and refuses basic feedback. Eight people out of Ro’s 11-person customer service operations team have quit due to culture, the majority leaving after only being at the company for five months, employees say.

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StartupNation

JULY 14, 2021

Making sure employees have the resources they need to be successful at Clearcover, the company built out robust mental health benefits for employees in 2020. The leadership team has also started a practice of evaluating on a quarterly basis some days that would be good as company holidays for the whole team. KLA Tencor.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The significant momentum of cloud computing over the past decade has transformed the modern workplace from a static environment contained within four walls to a dynamic entity, bringing employees together across cities, time zones and even cultures. Originally published April 8, 2020. To build trust in your remote team, get personal!

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Excerpted from “Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership,” by Jason Richmond (Ideal Outcomes, Inc., As Vibhas Ratanjee, Senior Practice Expert, Organizational and Leadership Development, Gallup, says, “You may not be ready to think about the next catastrophe, not now when the unknowns outnumber the knowns.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A total of 233 EO-member companies were named to the 2020 Inc. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc. And seeing them hit their stride, find their passion and thrive in our culture is beyond fulfilling. Weaknesses are no longer obscured by “culture.” 5000 list of America’s fastest growing, privately held companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It also acknowledged that it had engaged “an independent 3rd party firm to do a leadership and cultural assessment,” the results of which would be “taken into account to build a long-term sustainable and positive culture at Better.”. million as determined by the Board based on his 2020 performance,” the S4 filing said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

We have no questions at this time regarding Good Meat’s conclusion that foods comprised of or containing cultured chicken cell material resulting from the production process defined in CCC 000001 are as safe as comparable foods produced by other methods,” according to the FDA letter dated March 20 to the company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020. For Richard, he came from a place where skincare was more culturally accepted. It’s latest brand, Meridian, offering grooming products, launched in 2020. Products are now selling in more than 70 countries.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The company, launched by CEO Nolan Church in August 2020, started as a play to connect startups to part-time executive help. He’s talking from experience: The founder was the chief people officer at Carta when the company laid off 13% of the company in April 2020. 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 3, 2020

In the summer of 2020, we will reconvene and continue that critical work. Higher Purpose, Stakeholder Orientation, Conscious Leadership and Conscious Culture?financially Intersecting Crises: COVID-19 and Climate. A growing number of people worldwide understand that the biggest threat to humanity is climate change.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We could say that this mindset shifted because of the pandemic, but as a 24-year-old entrepreneur who brought my business from zero to $3+ million in two years, I’d say the mindset was there long before 2020. It goes beyond company culture. They want a culture that trusts them to do their best work in the best way that they know how.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The last time we checked in with Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, was in 2020 when the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital. Since then, Khusid said the company grew its user base by 500%, from 5 million to 30 million users, and also its paying customer base by 550%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

As a global talent acquisition leadership guru and expert on hiring diverse leadership teams, Debbie shares her insights on how to drive real change within your organization. Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 million to 6.3 million, respectively.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Businesses have struggled to establish diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) work environments for some time now, but the events of 2020 put a spotlight on just how bad most organizations are at building impactful DEI efforts. Successful DEI not only enables culturally diverse workforces — it’s imperative to business success.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

From a leadership perspective, it’s important to understand how to leverage technology to make teams more efficient when working from home, but also to ensure that all team members still feel they’re a part of the team. Originally published May 13, 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

billion set in 2020,” writes Taranto. The announcement was so poorly handled, the company soon hired a crisis management firm and eased Garg out of his leadership role after emails surfaced in which he berated investors. Better.com says it has since hired an outside firm “to do a leadership and cultural assessment.”.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 31, 2021

However, there’s one element of business that remote work makes more difficult, and that’s the creation and maintenance of healthy, cohesive workplace culture. But wait, does culture even apply if your entire team is remote? Weigh your culture check with new hires. It’s a valid question, but the answer is most definitely “yes.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million round raised in May 2020. billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28 Equally, we’re seeing really interesting things happening with large, traditional healthcare organizations and with government leadership,” Hultman Kramer added. Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s good PR to say you’re a company with a strong culture focused on diversity, as it helps attract top talent. since 2015, and in 2020, women make $0.81 This is the culture and thus foundation of your company. Identify a “culture chair.” Some of it, in truth, has been window dressing. Asian women made 77.1%

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Sivashankar has been a member of EO UAE since October 2020. . When my business plans took a significant turn in March 2020, owing to lockdowns implemented to prevent the spread of Covid 19, my initial feeling was remorse. Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Not only has the pandemic accelerated remote-first culture, it is now seen as a competitive edge to acquire top-notch global talent.”. Zingtree’s enterprise annual recurring revenue grew three times in 2021 after growing two times in 2020. It has 46 employees currently after having 10 employees at the end of 2020.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That has mainly meant really figuring out how to be a leader and continuously refining my leadership approach as the company has grown. I don’t profess to have it solved, but I’ve learned a great deal about how to scale my leadership approach that I didn’t know back when we started Greenhouse. This is still very much a journey I’m on.

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Surdna Foundation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I became intensely aware of the power of listening, storytelling, and culture, especially in justice movements. The stories we collectively tell—from pop culture to politics and from how we remember the past to the future we yearn for—have always been essential ingredients for social change. The Pop Culture Collaborative .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic having sent so many to work from home, those investments have paid off — the company has transcribed over 100 million meetings with more than 3 billion minutes, and has seen an 8x increase in revenues during 2020. added Zoom integration back in April 2020 — the early days of the pandemic.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 15, 2020

From the humble beginnings of running lessons out of his own house, Alex is looking forward to the continued expansion of El Árbol, with a trained and dedicated teaching staff, more classrooms and a website coming in 2020. Know the individuals, know the families and the cultures, and know the stories to better understand their needs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020. Our other big news is that we hired a president ( Kane McCord ) in the past six weeks, which is cool to have the reinforcement on the leadership side.”. Shelf Engine has a plan to reduce food waste at grocery stores, and $12 million in new cash to do it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Indeed, both companies have similar financial and cultural synergies, Ramesh said, including a focus on eliminating food waste. He has long believed that the food e-commerce and grocery commerce space was “ripe for consolidation” and saw a wave of it happen in 2020 and 2021; for example, HelloFresh acquiring both Factor75 and Youfoodz.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For 25 years, Salyer led Accel Financial Staffing, until the sale of the company to key employees in the 3 rd quarter of 2020. She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma City, and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Becoming a climate neutral company requires a shift in thinking from leadership to employees. Our company, CauseLabs received climate-neutral certification in 2020; we’re here to help! In 2020 we became a carbon-neutral company and received climate-neutral certification. Don’t worry. What does it mean to be climate neutral?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

By the time he left in 2020, that number had grown to 15,000 people. This in turn impacts a company’s culture, including its approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, and ability to retain talented people. So we built systems to capture all that data, clean it, structure it and deliver dashboard insights to our leadership.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 24, 2020

In early April 2020, larger financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup, vowed to hold off on making layoffs. In April 2020, Alex Yastrebenetsky and fellow leaders at his organization, InfoTrust , decided to launch a No Layoff Pledge which will last through 1 July 2020.

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