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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. Evolve your leadership : Great leaders consistently manage themselves out of the job. Team Building Anatomy of a Reference Check : Then get out of their way.

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

So my advice? My advice: Don’t just show what your numbers are—show why they matter. My advice: First, understand which metrics actually matter to your specific business model and focus relentlessly on those. Don’t treat impact as a side note. Bake it into your brand’s business case.

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Talk to Your Heroes: How I Built a Virtual Board That Enhances My Decision-Making

Paul G. Silva

Safe space for brainstorming – Test ideas without judgment or politics Consistent advice – Your virtual advisors won’t forget previous conversations Customizable expertise – Add or remove advisors based on your changing needs Setting Up Your Virtual Board Ready to create your own advisory team?

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Meet the man empowering young leaders by starting with their computer repairs

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. When I would meet potential clients, I knew I was having an impact because they would mention lessons they’d learned from my sessions and reference how they helped them.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

Both Sides of the Table

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. Peloton has recently done a big push to get users to add hashtags that they create?—?this

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

Being an effective founder of a high-growth company requires a bundle of technical, analytical, leadership and communication skills that don’t often come packaged in a single individual. Step 3: Give good advice Most startup advice is bad.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) EQ and Team Leadership? The best way – of course – is to reference check. Startup Advice VC Industry'

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