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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to grab people’s attention, but there’s one aspect of marketing that Robert Katai thinks isn’t talked about as often: maintaining their attention. The solution, he says, is a combination of content strategy and positioning. And is his advice applicable beyond borders?

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Would you recommend this strategy to founders? This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. It was an all-encompassing process.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. And often it is hard to motivate people to take on big tasks like strategy re-evaluations because everybody is busy doing investment work. So I find that less “management” happens at these firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. Post MBA I went into strategy consulting where my job was to problem solve for clients. This is a problem for a strategy consultant because you are, by definition, a generalist that is thrown into new problems again and again.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

When hiring their directors, boards tend to look for: Proven leadership experience; Specific skills or experience – for example, a financial background, international experience, position as active or retired CEO, experience in dealing with challenges faced by a company or CEO; and. Ten Networking Strategies to a Seat on the Board.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Staying attuned to these changes and being willing to pivot our strategies has been instrumental in our growth. My best advice is to actively surround yourself with people who have more experience and knowledge than you. To establish achievable and well-thought-out goals, incorporate various methods and tools into your strategy.

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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. 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.

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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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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. An effective onboarding process should document and track specific training, performance goals and milestones for new team members. Great people.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 28, 2019

Building out your ideas on minimal funds, dealing with founding team issues, making quick and decisive decisions and simply coping with the pressure of early stage businesses are all things that require first hand experience if people are going to be dishing out advice. Your board should cover three main areas at a minimum.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . 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. It seems like good advice to me. Their CEO was equally bravado and dumb.

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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform. 3) Documenting best practices. I agree with Fred Wilson on the value of owning your own platform.

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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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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. They should be used to enforce, validate, and document requirements.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. I think that if I were to rejoin the tech industry now, I don’t know whether or not I would go for a leadership role or an IT role. Craig Cannon [00:37:56] – Weird strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I had the former head of Oracle, UK, Philip Crawford , on my first board and I found his advice and experience invaluable. I was a SaaS company and he had been on the Executive Board and the Strategy Council for Larry Ellison at Oracle and he taught me some key lessons about sales and he served as a useful buffer between my investors and me.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 11, 2021

Dave’s Advice to Very Small Business Owners. Dave said a good CEO does 3 things : Sets the vision and strategy for the business. Get people in the right seats – hiring and leadership. See Seth Godin’s advice for authors here and here. Advice to Dave’s Younger Self. Coachability is most important.

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