Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation. Do you think your mindset has anything to do with your success? Absolutely! And undoubtedly.”

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StartupNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

One of the key documents for starting a business is a business plan. If you’re looking for investment capital, it’s an important document for investors to review to learn more about your company. These documents also tend to be written three to five years in advance. What kinds of problems does the business solve?

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Feedough

APRIL 24, 2021

Here, we will break down helpful tips and tricks and dissect them thoroughly to help you develop an action plan for your business while working full-time. In 2006, Aytekin Tank founded JotForm as a side hustle while working full-time as a senior web developer in an Internet Media Company. If the answer is yes, then do just that.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Table of Contents Challenge #1: The Lean Startup encourages agnostic experimentation instead of starting with a compelling strategy. The team was ultimately acqui-hired by imeem for the impressive tech we had developed, but our dreams of building an independent web music player were over.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Besides the standard slides for TAM and GTM strategies, their presentation does a compelling job of describing the problems to be solved and why they believe they’re poised for success: “We’ve felt this pain personally.” To wit: Five Flute, an issue-tracking platform for hardware product managers, recently raised a $1.2M

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. They often aren’t great at planning development work. They don’t love documentation. They should be setting the standards for how code is developed. Most often they are not. But barely.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 21, 2023

Nahm highlights the significance of combining the Hero Customer Journey with the playbook to develop a powerful Customer Journey Playbook (CJ Playbook). Understanding this journey allows startups to foster Customer Empathy and build a shared framework to enhance their Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy.

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StartupNation

APRIL 9, 2021

Here’s my advice on how to approach your business plan one step at a time: Get good at just one thing. Solidify your sales strategy and learn to master just one thing at a time. It will help you develop the right lead magnet and better understand your potential customers. Don’t try to conquer the world.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Firms run by trusted family members can also avoid special accounting systems, policy manuals and legal documents. Seek outside advice. Develop a succession plan. Outside professional advice to draw up a plan is essential. Treat family members fairly. Require outside experience first. Originally published in August 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Similarly, “everyone needs 18-24 months of runway” is a nice motto, but when it takes three times longer to raise a round than it used to, it may no longer be useful advice. Diversify your ad strategy, test different ideas and don’t give up if your ad doesn’t show results right away.”. to 17 cents.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

This time, I connected with 15 startup and SME leaders from my network to discover how they are tackling the current crisis, and what advice they had to offer to others in the same boat. In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools , landed $18 million to find flaws in execution to minimize app freezes and errors, Kyle writes. Time is on your side : Musical tastes change, so to document it, Spotify’s new time capsule feature will let you revisit your musical taste a year from now, Aisha writes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. This has meant smaller exits, and thus less development for the ecosystem. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

From optimizing employee benefits for tax advantages to setting aside funds for year-end tax liabilities, we’ve compiled the top thirteen strategies shared by seasoned professionals. Early on, we weren’t aware that our innovative tech development efforts could be claimed as R&D tax credits.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2019

Depending on your customers, email marketing can be effective at driving traffic to your website, whereas geotargeted social media may be a better strategy for a physical store. Take some time to develop a clear hiring process to advertise roles and assess and onboard new team members. So if you’re not sure, ask for advice.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

As a subject matter expert, you’re expected to stay on top of recent developments in your field of knowledge. DirectWomen seeks to “ increase the representation of women lawyers on corporate boards” by “[ developing] and [positioning] women attorney leaders for board service. Ten Networking Strategies to a Seat on the Board.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. Everything needs to be part of a holistic company strategy. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. So how much PS is too much?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They picked apart holes in our strategy and they were right. They are engaged in a beautiful dialog about market adoption and why they have problems managing their documents since they store everything in Outlook. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

In the case of the investment they are often also not only committing personal risk of looking bad at their partnership if things don’t go well but also countless hours of board meetings, financial reviews, legal documents across what is often 7–10 years or more. This is part of a series on fund-raising advice for entrepreneurs and VCs.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You are basically leasing rights to your model, brand, and business strategy to another entrepreneur in a franchised business. 3- Develop Legal Documentations. So, legal documentation is of utmost importance to preserve a healthy relationship. A lawyer can provide expert advice in this regard. sales requirements.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 11, 2019

Developing a business plan means detailing the strategies and tactics you will implement to build and grow the business. Your business plan should be an evolving document that grows as your business does, reviewed each year with your business adviser or accountant. How will you run and grow the business? What’s it going to cost?

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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. LawVu is to legal what Salesforce is to sales teams,” co-founder and chief strategy officer Tim Boyne told TechCrunch in an email.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. 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 you just continue to see how that social dynamic develops.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The poorest households describe a stark choice — between ‘heating or eating’ Into this grim maelstrom a new London-based startup, called Nous , is hoping to throw households a life-raft by offering a free personalized report that explains how price rises will affect their costs and gives advice on how to adapt to inflation.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. What is your mobile strategy? Not a chance. I totally agree. For Meebo 1.3%

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. 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. I like that.

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 23, 2015

Internal entrepreneurs should find a godfather to support their projects by providing advice, technical and marketing insights, and, if it comes to the point where you need it, protection. If you give me permission, six months, and a team of analysts, I can come up with a new product strategy.”. Get a separate building.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

This article is the final installment in our series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. We also sought the advice of several software providers who work with fintech borrowers to get their best approaches to managing one or more debt facilities. Read part 1 on Choosing the Right Funding Structure here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He also cites a study by one city authority that found staff spent 37% of their time at work searching for documents or other digital content. Europe puts out advice on fixing international data transfers that’s cold comfort for Facebook. All of which is driving attention onto ‘privacy-preserving’ technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. “Here’s how you upload a document. Mobile app?

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 9, 2022

What's your advice to other founders on how to hire executives? The mission, strategy, metrics, goals, systems and processes – all of it – is well documented and organized so people can find them and take action. Hiring executives is one of the hardest things you’ll do as a CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I have attention deficit disorder, it is a real condition , I have been diagnosed including having radioactive isotopes through my brain to map my development and yet I’m a leader, I have accomplished much, I did well in school and went on to earn a master’s degree and I can actually concentrate when I want to.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 3) Raise capital.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. We were intentional about this from day one and documented it in our engineering handbook. Make it part of the product development process. Behavior changes unexpectedly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

To find out what cloud-related advice investors are giving startups these days, we spoke with: Shomik Ghosh , partner, Boldstart Ventures. It’s also the velocity of the team’s product development, downtime avoided, developer experience to allow teams to move faster, etc. Tim Tully , partner, Menlo Ventures.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 3, 2021

When startups have been developing diagnostics, we’ve also seen companies working on tests with a lab component decide to start first with the CLIA/CAP LDT process, and only then pursue FDA clearance. The specific timing for this evolution depends greatly on the type of products being developed.

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