Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it’s securing investment capital, marketing a concept, recruiting new talent or leaning on peers for support and advice, having a solid network can seriously work to your benefit. Enhance your self-discipline with these tips: Make habit-forming a priority by using apps or strategies like the 21-day rule. Change your strategy.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. But before we get to the lesson, I just plain like this intro into his negotiation strategy: Like a machismo first-time CEO I thought I should handle the negotiation myself. It seems like good advice to me. Subscribe to the Gust Blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We don’t lay claim to being the only VC to change or think about the future or to having the only or best strategy. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. You can follow Hamet on Twitter here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

5000 shared: Knowing what you know now, what advice would you share with your younger self? It’s been like having my own board of directors, for both my business and personal life. 5000 company leader shares her entrepreneurial journey appeared first on THE BLOG. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc. She joined EO Minnesota in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

At any moment in time one of Upfront’s associates are likely to be working on: a pricing strategy, a market-expansion strategy, an M&A review, or helping build a company’s first board deck template. Startup Advice' But you may ask: “What else have you done other than change your name?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

With a little patience, forethought, and strategy, you can avoid angel burnout. You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. Otherwise, all of your advice sounds like your best advice, until you tell someone else. 5) Focus.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The job board has more than 217,000 listings with jobs across the spectrum, from tech to blue-collar industries. Instead, wrkfrce makes money through affiliate links on its job board, advertising remote-work tools and consultancy fees it charges companies that ask for advice on how to scale a remote team.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I think the best VCs act as a sounding board for management. Let me explain.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. While there’s lots of advice out there on how investors can exit successfully, there’s less for entrepreneurs in the trenches. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. Find him on Twitter at @mannypadda.

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Feedough

APRIL 14, 2021

Acqui-hiring is one such strategy that changes the game and has gained popularity in recent years. Acqui-hiring is simply a strategy that assists the growth of the company with the expertise of recruited employees. This term is believed to have first appeared in a blog post by Rex Hammock on May 11, 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Consulting and blogging are some of the best businesses to start with little money , since they require very little initial investment and can be scaled up easily. If your company offers legal advice, there’s no need to employ a full-time copywriter. Other products, however, can put excessive strain on your resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. That certainly works well for some.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog. This week I published a first look at the stealthy business , built by Shimkus and former Udemy CEO Dennis Yang, and its recently capitalized strategy of cohort-based learning for the enterprise. Deal of the week.

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Guy Kawasaki

AUGUST 3, 2020

For tips on speaking the language of business, securing on-going funding, and getting buy-in from your executives, check out this free Data strategy master class. . You need executives to ask ad hoc questions of their analytics and brainstorm with other board members on innovative solutions. In the end, this is a culture change.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. I have sat on a board with Howard and have known him a few years. Investing Strategy. What is ideal board structure? How to run a board meeting? Howard is successful enough that he doesn't need to work.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. I HATE LOSING.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. What is the communication rhythm and dynamics with the board and in other meetings? I totally agree.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Staying attuned to these changes and being willing to pivot our strategies has been instrumental in our growth. Try using automation as much as possible to streamline your customer-acquisition process and constantly use articles to speak to your ideal customers via a blog. However, I knew enough to admit what I didn’t know.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Board Meetings. If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO. If you haven’t read my blog posts on why Tracy chose the right strategy it’s worth a read.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Additionally, a startup could get a ton of applicants due to pay, location or even recent coverage in a Well Known Tech Blog — which can bode well for success, but could also just be a result of great marketing. Advice and other bits: 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. When will VCs hit the brakes?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. I HATE LOSING.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. For example, I highly recommend a set of board metrics that the CEO communicates to board members at every meeting. With a set of metrics the board can keep know whether the company is tracking to its objectives.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As female entrepreneurs, we are independent-minded and innovative, and this advice is critical for securing our future and the future of our families. She provided me with so much advice on business strategy, business channels and HR. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. Jonathan shared that experience in his blog post so I won’t repeat it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s).

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Gust

JUNE 5, 2012

Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. But before we get to the lesson, I just plain like this intro into his negotiation strategy: Like a machismo first-time CEO I thought I should handle the negotiation myself. It seems like good advice to me. Their CEO was equally bravado and dumb.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Two strategies I talked about in the post for getting your “anchor tenants&# are 1) taking them on as advisors first and 2) giving early people cheaper pricing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I worked nearly a decade as a consultant – first building large scale IT systems and then doing strategy consulting. We have a great board chat and talk about our strategic direction but then you go out and execute. I love it.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the Have featured contributors from your industry post your blog content on their social profiles. the people in the room.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Some advice on how to do that was covered in this link – Getting Access to a VC. The partner you saw is probably sitting on 5-6 boards which means he or she will be busy helping existing portfolio companies. Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Or a major shift in strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group. 100 billion idea.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

He is also the president of Idea Gateway which works with its client partners to reach the next level of excellence through effective business planning and strategy. Whitaker is co-founder and board member of RevTech Accelerator, a leading venture accelerator seed fund. Learn more at www.mikewhitaker.com.

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