Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Here are some quick guidelines on what I think it takes to build a sense of leadership: 1.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

teams usually outperform individuals or groups of individuals) but very few Founder CEOs are skilled at creating a high-performing senior leadership team. Teamwork is almost always lacking in companies which fail and is present within companies that succeed. It’s a myth to believe that leadership has always resided in the CEO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

His decision to take control of his health journey and challenge medical advice illustrates the importance of advocating for oneself and making informed decisions. It is teaching me how to be more loving, more present, and more honest.” To define agency, I mean I’m my own agent.” I’m embracing my cancer as a teacher.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Read his earlier posts on how EO members define success , the impact of core values , lessons learned from their best and worst partnerships and the best advice they’ve ever received and nine lessons learned from entrepreneurial projects. When asked, “What was your first entrepreneurial project? What did you learn?”

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 2, 2021

It is vital for entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders to understand unconscious biases that may be present in their journey to growing their business or organization. Access the YLAI Network’s workbooks on responsible leadership and partnerships and allyship to learn more about the forms of biases and their impact. Education is key.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers. Leadership and Culture. Tony Chatman, Leadership Advisor and Speaker; Ivy Slater, Business Coach and Author. How do you nurture a culture of excellence in your organization.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Square paid around a quarter of its present-day value for Afterpay, Alex Wilhelm notes in The Exchange. That seems like a lot. But was it too much? Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a more diverse merchant network to Square,” Alex notes. “It It would have had to spend to derive those assets over time. All of that is true.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. so that you can present your product as a solution to that problem.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

My desire at that point was to learn more about startups, so when the opportunity presented I had to weigh the risk/reward balance. Every time you are presented with an opportunity, look at the risk/reward ratio. It could be a segway into leadership or an area you want to explore. Let me explain. What would you tell them?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s a short read (or eight hours on Audible) filled with practical advice on building and running a startup or established business. If you are not being present in the now, you are leaving a lot of value on the table, financially, emotionally and spiritually. It has played a really big role in my life. That’s great. It’s necessary.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The playbook: Pour money into sales and marketing and become a category leader; eventually, as the market recognizes your leadership, revenue will accelerate. If you raised money in 2020 or 2021, you don’t know what a tough fundraising environment is like, and you’re likely getting contradictory advice from investors and advisers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I sit through a lot of presentations. These range from companies pitching me to portfolio companies presenting at board meetings. Each of these scenarios has a team presenting. Some CEO’s are masters at communicating when team members are present. Startup Advice' Anything that can go wrong in a company will.

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StartupNation

JUNE 20, 2021

What advice would you give to someone in your shoes, knowing what you know now? Once you have an understanding of your purpose , you may figure out how thought leadership allows you to create a lasting impact. However, they don’t know much about the company’s leadership. A good example would be my own thought leadership pieces.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

As an independent woman with a go-getter attitude, she shared insights with us into her life as an entrepreneur and what it was like getting YHS off the ground, as well as her advice for other young entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Advice for Young Entrepreneurs. Ashna’s advice: “Work on your mindset.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Without being able to find guidance from other women who had walked the road before her, Tamara took advantage of the resources that were presented to her, like the YLAI Network. In Forbes Magazine’s 2019 list of the world’s 100 most innovative leaders, 99 were men and only 1 was a woman (Washington Post).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2022

an award-winning online printing company that has helped over 5,000 businesses print more than 20 million presentation folders. The following is my advice on how to not just survive, but thrive, during a downturn along with examples of how we’ve used these strategies. Nobody was ordering customized presentation folders.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has also presented unprecedented obstacles for Cinthya’s company. Advice for Network members. Cinthya had three key pieces of advice to other YLAI Network members or anyone looking to make a difference in the community: Go for it! Whatever idea you have, go for it.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 24, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Marie Flore Morett, owner of Delices de Marie Florett , has worked to create a welcoming community in Haiti to empower women to seek employment opportunities and work to decrease the job and wage inequalities present in Haiti. Advice for YLAI Network members. “Be By Caroline Sachdeva. Be open,” Marie advises.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. Unless you are presenting to an audience who are experts in your domain, I implore founders to pitch in layman’s terms and leave the technical jargon in the backup slides for the Q&A. Franklin D. Warm introductions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s also good advice to treat your marriage like a business partnership, in that both require commitment, communication and a shared view of values and goals. Ponce City Market presented that opportunity. How has your EO experience impacted your entrepreneurial journey and leadership style?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

By sophomore year I got the inspiration to hold leadership positions in the fraternity. Having held all of the major operational functions of the fraternity I was ready for “real leadership.&#. I presented behind a lectern. I had the experience and leadership skills. Gregory was into theater. I prepared this time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

It is impossible advice to give because there is such a fine line between being persistent and being annoying and it’s something you probably can’t teach. I called it “the worst startup advice I had ever heard somebody give.” Leadership Startup Lessons' ” But then again most entrepreneurs fail.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

In celebration of Rosario’s hard work empowering a community of young changemakers, the YLAI Network team spoke with her to highlight the key factors of her non-profit volunteerism movement and get her essential advice on how to respond to the challenges of COVID-19.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In such situations, it’s essential to proactively communicate the challenges, outline mitigation strategies, and present a clear path forward. The leadership promptly communicated the issue to investors, highlighting the steps being taken to address the problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced. Whenever I’m watching someone present to me I’m often thinking to myself, “Can this person inspire others?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

What was astonishing during the preparations for this event was the decision of Autonomous A2Z’s CFO to have a new employee, who had been with the company for just three months and was diligently learning English, as the presenter. Kim offers invaluable advice to newcomers in the startup investing scene. ” – Kim.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. The busy year started off when leadership met with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to discuss the accredited investor definition, QSBS and how to build a more successful startup ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In each sales situation your goal as the leadership of the company is listening to feedback, calculating the customer ROI, testing what prices people are willing to pay, learning where budgets will come from, etc. Tags: Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice. This is obviously a marketing & CEO activity.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 24, 2019

When seeking a mentor, be intentional- look for someone who can offer you valuable, even critical, feedback, advice, and open doors for you to new opportunities to advance your career. The service offers a 24/7 digital advice hotline. Find a Mentor includes over 1,500 categories including leadership, career, and communications. .

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

[Email readers, continue here…] But most importantly, it is the constant hearing of stories by these CEOs of how they were able to adapt to changes in their environment and alter the course of their leadership, adapting to external influences that had changed in their industry or the economy. How it works.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Throughout the process, from that first e-mail to the signed equity deal with Shark Tank investor Lori Greiner over a year later, I learned so much, and I carry those “lessons from the tank” into every aspect of my leadership today. Presentation matters. Without a doubt, one of the most important is a flawless presentation.

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Onevest

MAY 12, 2015

What types of curation presents virtual mines that should be tapped? Via a Slideshare presentation on ‘Building Thought Leadership in an age of Curation’ , Corinne Weisgerber, Ph.D. These principles of trust and context are seconded by the Knight Foundation in its advice for entrepreneurs. So where did curation get lost?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2016

According to The Leadership Training Workshop , “Committing goals to paper and reviewing them regularly gives you a 95% higher chance of achieving your desired outcomes. Many business resources will give you great advice for the future – “Once you hit US$1 million in sales, you’ll set up X, Y and Z.”

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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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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 15, 2021

In recognition of International Anti-Corruption Day on December 9, 2020, YLAI Network members joined nine YLAI Fellowship alumni from diverse industries and regions to discuss what leadership and integrity means to them. Upon presenting a report I indicated a deduction, giving the accumulated consistent extra fund received on each payment.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

This is especially true when you present to investors who get jaded very quickly as all presentations start to sound like the last one. That’s called product leadership. Tags: Startup Advice. But if you’re “leading&# a pitch with game dynamics as though you thought of it first it gets to be a bit much.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s a misconception that the most successful business leaders are born with their leadership credentials imprinted in their DNA. Almost nine in 10 said they are open to advice/referrals when consuming content, making them virtually always ready to take in any information that could possibly be helpful to their business.

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