Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Some specific things we were highly aligned on were: Team culture: We both wanted to build a fun, collaborative, and focused culture. As a final step, we did reference checks with people who had worked with the other person before. It is really good advice to do this ahead of time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. She invested because of Duolingo’s growth and engagement numbers, but confronted von Ahn with some direct advice. Image Credits : Duolingo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

At the same time, they’re also struggling to raise fresh capital — and those who are able to raise money and extend runways are navigating the cultural complexities of down rounds. Our best-practice advice to CEOs is to cut deep enough that they are confident there will not be a second round in the next few months.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Customer success is a team effort and it is important for businesses to include this in their team culture. Further, it is also easier and more cost-effective to retain customers than to acquire new ones, as returning customers spend more and buy more often, and refer friends and family.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

Yet no matter how often you heard that you should trust your gut and follow your intuition, that advice is wrong. That refers to our tendency to look for and interpret information in ways that conform to our prior beliefs, intuitions, feelings, desires and preferences, as opposed to the facts. Again, cognitive fluency deserves blame.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

But when he announced his new project, Hampton , an invite-only club for chief executive officers, the references started rolling. Then they are interviewed for culture fit and to confirm that they are building digital-first businesses. And as SVB’s meltdown showed tech , a strong network can be a way of survival.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Indeed, many Canadians refer to Toronto as “east”’ despite there being 1,900 miles between Drake and The Weeknd’s hometown and St. Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 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. which we affectionately referred to as “floaters”?—?surfaced Do not take this as financial advice.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In addition to discussing potential applications in advertising, fintech and enterprise apps, respondents shared their advice for web3 founders who are hunting for funding, along with their concerns about factors that could stall its development. What advice would you give web3 founders who are trying to get their first check? .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2019

It’s counterintuitive, and many resist it, but it is often the key to changing culture and improving outcomes. If we look at a mistake as fatal, we’ve just made the mistake I reference above and let it become a permanent failure. That was likely the best advice I ever heard. What are those lessons, and how do they differ?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In North America, these refer as private investment in public entity (PIPE), where institutional investors or accredited investors invest in a public company at a certain discount to the current market price. Additionally, Do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund? Build trust. Be authentic and be prepared.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

While the ideas it generates aren't always groundbreaking, it gives me a frame of reference that I can use to further develop ideas. And yes, Bard lacks the creativity and cultural understanding to make a piece of writing really good, but there's nothing wrong with using it as a springboard to bring your best writing to life.

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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. I also post updates – sharing with the team when I spoke with a reference, for example.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Even though these people were doing business in all different fields, they gave me a lot of information that I could use as a reference. Do you have any advice for budding entrepreneurs? Just being able to interact with the CEOs of other startup companies in their early stages of business helped me a lot mentally in Pangyo.

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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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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

We continued to build a lot of trust within the team, and they started referring their friends to apply. Eventually, we attracted well-known investors, and that, along with our culture and growth, made hiring easier. Luckily we had a deep culture of transparency that goes back to the beginning of the company.

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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. A growing focus for Maven is being able to match its members to providers who are culturally aware and relatable to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

But I used to jokingly refer to bridge loans as “pier&# loans. And equally damning is that the culture inside the company drifts insidiously from confidence to cautiousness. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. From pragmatic risk taking to risk aversion.

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

Hiring managers face difficult decisions when assessing for personality, culture fit, and soft skills. For this reason, you need someone on your hiring team with deep knowledge about the company’s culture, its goals, and values. If you haven’t called all of their references, pick up the phone.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

The influence of a founder on their company’s culture cannot be overstated. Everything from their views on the product and business to how they think about people affects how their company’s employees will behave, and since behavior, in turn, informs culture, the consequences of a founder’s early decisions can be far-reaching.

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

Hiring managers face difficult decisions when assessing for personality, culture fit, and soft skills. For this reason, you need someone on your hiring team with deep knowledge about the company’s culture, its goals, and values. If you haven’t called all of their references, pick up the phone.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

In advice to the government, which the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published today , it writes: “Before any code is put into place, further analysis of the concerns and consultation with the parties would need to be undertaken through a participative approach.

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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

Well this is where we’re gonna start to get into the pop culture, right? David: When other CEOs of large companies come to you for your advice, how are you advising them on how to deploy AI in their organizations? Marty: Yes. Because, of course, you have to mention the big short when you start talking about these things, right?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

My advice is that even the senior team should set its own distinctive purpose so that it can set its own performance goals to measure itself against. personality, cultural background?—?and and a high-performing team will establish a conflict culture everyone understands and commits to.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale. I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. It makes a lot of sense that you talk about even cultural differences in the way that people work or the way that people communicate, running a global company as you did, I’m sure you saw that. I do my own reference calls. Mine, I edit constantly.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 27, 2023

building an in-person vs remote company, having certain cultural values, having a particular approach to hiring or managing people? ☐ Do reference calls on each other. Ask people who have worked with your potential co-founder what it was like working with them, and for advice on how to work with them effectively.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Ramon Ray , founder of SmartHsutle.com, recently interviewed Borches to tap into her extensive advice and expertise as a leader in her industry. This is their “different reference check”. This interview is focused around culture fit questions. Advice for Smaller Business Owners.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Our startup culture must never be reduced to a cold, box ticking, economic development or investment exercise in our quest to find and fund New Zealand’s next hot new success story as I have written before.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In reference to his first round of success, today Lundy runs a membership group called the 800% Elite Automotive Club. Lundy teaches dealership owners and general managers how to better scale their volume, retain employees, become more profitable, and improve the overall culture in their dealership. Wath our Video Interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

.” The company said this action was taken as a result of “several” employees filing complaints about exclusionary cliques: “As any company might, Free Agency encourages a positive workplace in which all team members feel supported, rather than a subset of the team garnering or wielding too much cultural power.”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. The scarcity mindset holds us all back. Carina Boston Pinales. Metrics and practical measurements.

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Derek Sivers

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

His advice is to spend just a few weeks learning and having conversations in Esperanto, so that you can feel the experience of detaching from your mother tongue. I used Anki flashcards, and wrote my own command-line dictionary for quick reference of every word I’d learned. I watched videos in Esperanto made by a funny Australian dude.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 13, 2024

I wanted to talk a little more about his experiences and advice here, so thus a Five Question Interview. The hardest things to reset are the culture and processes set by bigger company executives who stepped into a business everyone thought was further along. Pat Kinsel: The pandemic, mostly. I said “mostly.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2016

The cultural impact and productivity impact has been meaningful. After all, no single prescriptive piece of advice will apply universally to companies. The first article How to Build a Perfect Team profiles an internal project inside Google to identify the characteristics of great teams.

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