StartupNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

They believe everyone’s advice. Entrepreneurs often struggle because they listen to others’ advice instead of their instincts. Learn leadership and management skills, so you don’t waste valuable time on employee churn and the hiring process. Find one mentor who has actually done it, and go deep on their information.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? Under your leadership, how much funding has your startup raised? More posts by this contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. Attention to detail matters.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Building on the above advice, you’ll need to make this trial long enough so that the user experiences the value, but no longer. The best advice to early-stage companies is to default to being generous here. Miro once upon a time gave away unlimited boards, then cut it to 10 boards, then to 3 boards.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. I contribute my two cents of advice, as do the others in the group. How do roundtables operate?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The latest from France : Fintech upstart Numeral wants to update corporate banking by “using a modern application programming interface” that will allow its customers to connect “directly to bank servers to upload payment files and interact with outdated information systems.” Been reading more French startup news in the last few quarters?

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Four Pillars of Governance Best Practice (strategy, culture, accountability and compliance) still underpin governance in a startup context but they are applied differently than on an established corporate board. Strategy is everything for a startup company board. A startup board is brave and supportive. Accountability.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Launched the new Boards in Action course, available in March as part of the AU winter term. ACA leadership met with directors from the SBA, members of the Ways and Means Committee, policy directors at the SEC and several members of Congress. Published the AngelBox Basics Toolkit.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Here’s my advice for developing your grit and using it: Approach your early-stage company as if you are in a marathon, not a sprint. The result will also be a halo effect on your advisers, board members and current and future investors. Develop a team that supports you and your business and offers on-target advice.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job. And then who are the best people to contact to find out that information? It’s just poor form.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I have been writing a series on how startup boards get selected, who sits on them and what to avoid. I started this series in part to help entrepreneurs but also to help newer investors because I’ve know with so many new companies you have so many new board members and many people are trying to figure out there respective roles.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2020

When Pete approached me for advice, I recommended the “Failure-Proofing” strategy, which is a pragmatic and easy-to-use technique to defend against planning and project disasters. Next, use an approach informed by the premortem technique and ask the participants to imagine a future where the plan failed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The moonshot instead is that edtech veterans are betting on the concept of curated, cohort-based learning, instead of asynchronous learning, as the future of how people comprehend information. The anger came from the potential that founders could get confused on whether that advice could lean to a future investment from the same VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 12, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. Make sure everyone is on board and ready. based on the best available information?—?make Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! Let’s get into it. Don’t rush into branding disaster 2.0 It’s a familiar story. Do the groundwork.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 7, 2019

Leadership is critical to a venture like Ascend. With 10 years of professional leadership in the commercialization of early stage pharmaceutical therapeutics and diagnostics, Ascend CEO, Dr. Elaine Hamm understands this world inside and out. That can be the most helpful advice. We provide the business case for a new drug.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. This post sets out how I believe founders (and investors) should think about independent board members having worked with many of them for the past 20 years. The board is where large equity investors get their representation.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

My best advice is to actively surround yourself with people who have more experience and knowledge than you. Without a well-organized approach to record-keeping, it becomes increasingly challenging to make informed decisions, track progress, or respond effectively to unforeseen challenges. The way you react to missteps is important.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. How do you provide services and resources to people and businesses who, by virtue of their very process, have to be able to be so self-confident they buck and ignore some advice? David Jay.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

Responding to that feedback with a killer feature was a great way to ultimately get them on board. We then looped in the senior leadership team for further discussion and to arm them with everything they needed to share the directional changes with their teams. This is where the hardest and messiest conversations took place.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Under his leadership, Expectful grew to profitability and over 13,000 paid users. I think it caught her off guard,” Krassner said, who is still a board member at the company. For content, Expectful wants to organize pregnancy-related information. Over time, the idea stuck. The new Expectful.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

It spoke to me because it so resonates with my nearly daily advice to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. I watch founders who want to get “air cover” for hard decisions by getting too much input from their teams or boards.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

All background that makes his latest bet all the more interesting: Mixing Board , a startup to bring together communications and marketing leaders in one spot to help clients avoid “the BS PR stuff.”. Right now, it’s free for comms leaders to join Mixing Board. Over 200 people are in the community to date. Be direct, be clear.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

I consume information from places like TechMeme, MediaREDEF and Nuzzel, which aggregates headlines that people in my circle are sharing. Each hour you invest with them can create exponential productivity. — Tom Shieh , CEO of Crimcheck ; advisory board member to Defy Ventures ; advisor to Tiny Devotions ; connect with Tom on Facebook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

LawVu gives them a cloud-based platform to share legal advice, documents, communicate with each other or external counsel and create reports for the rest of the company, including the C-suite. The company plans to hire key leadership roles in the U.S. Insight Partners managing director Rachel Geller will join LawVu’s board.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. I came from a board meeting to here. I can sit on probably eight or nine boards at a time. I want to change the world.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Perhaps you have to adjust your product or even go back to the drawing board. To combat this, I make it a strict point to make my personal contact information available to my customers. Maybe you haven’t found the exact market fit, or the product isn’t designed for your intended audience. Originally published on Forbes.com.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 3, 2019

If you’re responsible for finding and hiring people to grow your team or your business, your thoughts have probably wandered towards recruiting on social media, especially when the job boards aren’t producing the right needles from the haystack. Social media is all pervasive. Use an image, or even better, a video, to grab more attention.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

No board seats or personal guarantees. The following information is based on companies funded by us and/or our capital partners: The average most recent monthly revenue is $331,229. Programs are offered in both online, in-person, and hybrid format with cohorts of leadership teams for an average of 10 companies. ScaleWorks. “We

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. It seems like good advice to me. I like that.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2021

Additional board members or executives may also be hired by the business owners to ensure that there is a well-rounded group of decision-makers while scaling up. Everyone doesn’t think or comprehend information in exactly the same way, so sometimes there may be a disconnect that’s only realised in the end. 2. Establish key metrics.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

This means it’s even more important that Boards and owner-operators conduct regular health checks on their business to ensure their operations have a solid foundation. So, here’s a quick checklist of some of these early warning signs that Boards and business owners should be on the lookout for, as part of their annual health check.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

As an alternative I’ve also found board meetings to be a good rallying call. It gives a tangible goal and also the reward of the team that completes the project the opportunity to interact with the board. This is exactly where leadership comes in. Leadership Startup Lessons' This happens on 100% of projects.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

Not only can mentors evaluate new avenues for the startup, but they can connect the board to established professionals if they need further guidance in other areas of the business, such as marketing, sales, or design. Mentors can be a great addition to a startup, as they provide wisdom and advice to emerging businesses.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. I contribute my two cents of advice, as do the others in the group.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. Maybe we hear from one droning speaker and the rest of us are passively consuming information. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. this is classic community management. And it would be?—?but

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. thought leadership. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#. accessibility.

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