Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Gusto co-founder and CPO Tomer London to talk about building for new customer segments and the future of embedded finance — sharing advice for startup founders and CEOs along the way. You can’t build a monolithic culture. Embrace cross functional work.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Do you have any advice? They’re currently working in HR at LINQ , an edtech company that provides cloud-based administration and finance solutions for states, districts and schools. “HR

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In addition, Gartner found that 74% of Finance leaders expected to shift 5% of employees to remote work permanently. To address the core challenges of remote work and to bolster employee efficiency and engagement, businesses can utilize the following approaches: Building an authentic work culture. Building An Authentic Work Culture.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 11, 2022

The corporate chain can be beneficial to a startup culture by bringing credibility as well as experience in distribution, PR, and branding. . Advice is worth its weight in gold in the business industry. The most important part of a successful brand partnership is to encourage innovation between the two companies through collaboration.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was mainly educated in accounting and finance. As the team is not from a VC background, the typical investment strategy for seed or early-stage fund on diversifying into a portfolio of companies and then follow-on investments into potential winners is simply not in our DNA who came from corporate finance and business advisory background.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

Open the pathway to people of different backgrounds and experiences You might think that a career in venture capital has to be driven by a background in finance. Without any prior finance expertise, she managed to break traditional barriers and enter the world of venture capital. But that’s not necessarily true. We’re one team?—?a

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And while I passed on leading their seed, I did contribute a smaller amount into the financing, along with three subsequent pro rata/super pro rata investments. The ability for an investor to earn the trust of a founder and maintain that over time. Thank you Roxanne (and Anne) for the mutual trust and context.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. I was stuck in startup culture and he was stuck in big company culture and their was a chasm between us that couldn’t be rectified. You have no choice since in the first few years everything you do is about showing results to justify financing to continue your operations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Hampton, built by Parr and media veteran Joe Speiser , wants to give high-growth executives a high-impact community to lean on, whether it’s through screen-sharing financials, or asking for advice because there’s only one month of runway left. And as SVB’s meltdown showed tech , a strong network can be a way of survival.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

1) Build an Engaging Culture. With the workplace re-opening, it’s important for businesses to recommit to providing an engaging workplace culture, where coming back into the office has its own sets of rewards. So we provide them the necessary financing to kick-start that growth. How to Attract Employees (And Retain Them).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 9, 2019

She posts how she's helped a client or saved them money or helped them in some way OR Rachel's sharing how a prospective client's finances are quite messed up and how she's GOING to help them or a lessons learned. Listen to their journey (challenges and success) in hiring, marketing and financing their growth. Leadership and Culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. It starts as a debt instrument (e.g. From pragmatic risk taking to risk aversion.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As Our Colleague Kate Stern Departs Homebrew To Go Back to Company Building, Here’s Her Advice. I’d moved out for Homebrew after nearly ten years in New York, and the east coast / west coast culture shock is real! Homebrew: You had both finance (Goldman) and operating (Uber) experience prior to joining Homebrew.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Decorilla has consistently been innovating new processes and products, and the seven-year mark is an important time for us to reflect on growth, company culture, milestones, mistakes and learnings along the way. We shared our gratitude and life hacks, as well as personal advice and memories from good times we have had together in person.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Yogishi Chandra, CEO of Teknobuilt, said, “Even in an environment with a different language or business culture, we could participate in the K-Startup Grand Challenge, hold business meetings with domestic companies, and promote business smoothly through Korean interns.” ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers. Listen to their journey (challenges and success) in hiring, marketing and financing their growth. Leadership and Culture. Branding, Marketing and Communications.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Ryder was then a Maven “customer” for her following three pregnancies, using the platform for after-hours advice, virtual access to specialists or, more recently, guidance on how to prepare for a breech birth. Maven announced that it has raised $110 million in a Series D financing co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry? What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Get started!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The coolest thing about LoanSense is there is a onetime advice option for $47, or you can sign up for the concierge option that includes 4 months of full support. It’s a perfect system for collections attorneys, legal, auto finance, health care and property management companies who need to keep on top of payments in a particular way.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. My advice to people thinking about getting an MBA is to think about the five C’s.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

“In a culture where growing valuations are worn like a badge of honor, founders may fear that taking a down round would render them Silicon Valley pariahs,” writes Holden Spaht, managing partner at private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 21, 2022

The advice I give mission-driven founders in this area are: don’t assume everyone understands or cares as much as you do. The Head of Finance who sees each new industry as a new problem to learn and solve. Curiously they are actually often better at explaining the nearterm roadmap and rationale for funding than their peers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

As my wife will tell you – arguing is cultural – you grow up with it or you don’t. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. Startup Advice' She was never afraid of the word “no” even to the point of embarrassing me. It’s very Jewish.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, I do think an important sign from startups is their ability to keep a startup culture going for as long as possible and one sign of this in the early days is scrappiness. It was probably true, but I created the wrong mindset – the wrong culture. I love this saying and what it implies and I use it often.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

They could share these ideas on how to transition to remote work because they build a culture of open communication. These are financing and data. These institutions are also providing realistic opportunities to get sustainable financing for small businesses. That’s all because Ruby had empowered their people to act.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. It encourages a bit too much FOMO (fear of missing out) and over-valuation in companies and a desire to do huge financing rounds to be perceived as the “knock-out winner.” ” I don’t love that culture. And that burned through cash too quickly trying.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But I found that early advice to be accurate: The first 10 employees are the most important aspect in the company’s life cycle – other than finding product-market fit – and recruiting has to be the founder’s priority. It was an all-encompassing process. The process still looks the same, however.

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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. But it sets the wrong culture. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Skipping is insidious.

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Derek Sivers

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

They asked me to mentor at business schools, where people would bring in PowerPoint presentations showing their financial projections, and talk about raising rounds of financing, and all this stuff I had never dealt with and knew nothing about. So I don’t have any advice for people who are trying to make money.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In order to extract the needs in the most efficient way, individual phone calls have increased to professionals and companies within the Impact Hub network, to ask them about their needs, satisfaction, and advice for improvement. By sharing information, we can take better action and respond to needs in the right ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

By Marissa Levin, CEO of Successful Culture and EO Baltimore member. Warren also gave great advice for living a happy life. “Do This article was originally posted on the Successful Culture blog and has been reprinted here with the author’s permission. Warren is the CEO of Providence Service Corporation (NASDAQ; PSC) a $1.2

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) Bitcoin therefore must move, and movement between parties is the antithesis of HODL culture.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

.” So, then I met David Solomon at re:Invent, which is the AWS conference where he was speaking, and then we started to talk and it was pretty clear that Goldman had the same vision that, especially in the world of finance, technology will play a disproportionately important role. I think the relationship with clients will change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture. A great leader knows when there are team rivalries that need to be settled and when some team members need to be let go because they are breeding a bad culture internally. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo !

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2016

New Belgium is admired for its culture of engagement that you formalized in 2013 when you sold the company to your co-workers. From your perspective as an entrepreneur and parent, any advice to parents as they prepare their children to thrive in today’s world? How did the notion of ownership evolve?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If you can associate with people who challenge you to think positively, dream bigger and offer advice, your path to success becomes easier. You must live it by defining your company culture and ensuring your whole company believes and follows it. Living this established culture has earned me a few fans.

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