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EO Accelerator Grads on Growing In Business and In Marriage

Entrepreneurs' Organization

which helped cement our way of thinking and get a framework for planning goals. It gives founders the tools and accountability to take their business to the next level. How did you hear about EO Accelerator? Lallenia: My husband, Brad, and I started Big Birge Plumbing in 2012. Neither of us had much experience running a business.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. It is natural to feel this way. But first, what’s the purpose of a board? option grants). A note on board composition.

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My Number One Advice for Startups or VCs: Conviction > Consensus

Both Sides of the Table

It spoke to me because it so resonates with my nearly daily advice to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. All advice you receive is too generic to help you – you need to decide for yourself in your exact situation.

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How a Tourist Can Help you with Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Such is leadership. You should be presenting data to your VCs and framing the decisions that you’re trying to make into cogent frameworks that will allow a group of experienced people to help you with decision making. I suppose there’s some truth to that but of course it’s an over simplification.

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Why Most Managers Aren’t Effective Coaches

Reforge

In this piece, we will cover: The definition of coaching and how it fits into a manager’s portfolio Why most managers struggle to coach How to improve your coaching skills today We also created a new Coaching Reflection Template that you can use to instantly apply the coaching frameworks, tips, and ideas outlined in this article.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. And now onto our guest.