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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. Culture becomes a critical management tool as your company scales Effective management isn’t a natural gift but a discipline that can be learned, practiced, and refined.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

After a recent discussion I had with Steve Blank it made me remember that I had left off one of the most critical factors – a culture of failure. At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure. 11:00 How do you think the ‘failure’ culture emerged in Silicon Valley?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. We have an abundance of ethnicities, culinary options, music and culture. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives.

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VC Corner: Marlon Nichols, Cross Culture VC

Startup Grind

He has worked with several startups, invested in companies like Mayvenn, Gimlet Media, Blavity, Airspace Technologies, Codeverse, and many others Pitch your startup for a chance to meet with Cross Culture VC Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017.

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The Four Tenets of Conscious Capitalism

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Kent Gregoire is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member and founder of Symphony Advantage, which helps CEOs achieve ongoing success through strategic thinking, advice and planning. We are, indeed, in a moment in time when technology, opportunity and understanding converge toward a more caring way of conducting business at scale.

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Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my Startup Advice series. So when the Stanford MBA, the ex senior technology developer or the former Chief Revenue Officer of a company is calling me and asking my advice on their next gig you can see why I start with “are you ready to earn or to learn?&#. My advice was … run! It was 1999.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

Both Sides of the Table

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. I think PR is an incredibly important activity for technology companies and most companies aren’t very good at it.