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. Taken as a whole, FIs are at an especially receptive time for greater software adoption.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

We have a strategy doc that I collaborate on with the leadership team and share with the company; updates are provided at the half-year mark. What's your advice to other founders on how to hire executives? We also extensively check references. Advice you would give to future leaders? What is Faire’s culture?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

But when he announced his new project, Hampton , an invite-only club for chief executive officers, the references started rolling. Chief is a private membership club for women in leadership positions. And as SVB’s meltdown showed tech , a strong network can be a way of survival. And it recently expanded to the U.K.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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. And then I also think with references, founders are typically showing up with their 5 to 7 reference questions.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

A shadowban refers to when a social media platform deprioritizes an account. Advice from Shark Tank Businesses – Bug Bite Thing, Night Cap, The Smart Baker. Ramon attended the Small Business Leadership Conference and got advice from 3 Shark Tank business founders. Myth: Employment Gaps Cause Rejections.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Our best-practice advice to CEOs is to cut deep enough that they are confident there will not be a second round in the next few months. The document was not meant to live in isolation — instead, it was a foundation upon which to build in collaboration with investors, board members and senior leadership teams.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The ultimate goal of Green Depot is to be a global reference for industrial triple impact companies (i.e., If you were to give a piece of advice to a YLAI Network member looking to make a difference in their community, what would you say? . Thanks, Porfirio, for all of your hard work and your advice! Nothing is impossible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

You make too many reference calls or want to see three more candidates before you decide. So you make four more reference calls. Or having the tough conversations with their senior leadership to say why you can’t continue to allocate resource? Let me give you some obvious examples. You ask them to hit another milestone.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At its core, product-market fit refers to the sweet spot where your product meets the exact needs of your target market. Strategy 3: Content Marketing & Thought Leadership Content isn’t just king, it’s the whole royal court. Just make it beneficial for both the referrer and the referred. But what does it really mean?

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. Roosevelt’s advice resonates here: “Be sincere, be brief, be seated.”. Stay in the know and up-to-date on best practices for leadership and management. Franklin D. Warm introductions. Use those jazz hands.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

Yet no matter how often you heard that you should trust your gut and follow your intuition, that advice is wrong. That refers to our tendency to look for and interpret information in ways that conform to our prior beliefs, intuitions, feelings, desires and preferences, as opposed to the facts. Again, cognitive fluency deserves blame.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

This section is often referred to under “organization and management” in a traditional business plan. It provides a basic snapshot of your startup and its leadership. Here are a few quick items to cross off for inclusion: Leadership. Company Overview. Who is running the business and what are his or her current responsibilities?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. I love that we don’t give each other advice in Forum. We use the gestalt method of communication, and only discuss experiences rather than framing experiences in the form of advice. How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Personal strengths and weaknesses are hugely relevant to each individuals journey to effective entrepreneurial leadership. But this insight is needed more in terms of developing a sound foundation of self-leadership and self-mastery than ticking off a “chances of success checklist” before we start anything.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2019

From them, I have learned tremendous lessons about leadership, success and business. If we look at a mistake as fatal, we’ve just made the mistake I reference above and let it become a permanent failure. That was likely the best advice I ever heard. Top 100 Leadership Speaker. They were all troubled in some way.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. And they will offer you some of the best business advice you will ever receive if you’re open to it. But without these unsung heroes you’ll go nowhere. Luckily word travels quickly.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Moar: A little bit of Itica, all night long : Yes, that’s a size 5 mambo reference , and Ivan reports that Here lets you make fractional vacation rental investments starting at $100 , following in Arrived’s footsteps, who does the same for non-vacation rental properties , as Mary Ann reported a while back.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. I’ll share our collective advice on navigating these below.

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

Amazon proactively identifies star performers within their organization and then trains them to be skilled interviewers with a focus on hiring candidate’s who demonstrate 14 Leadership Principles. If you haven’t called all of their references, pick up the phone. Remember one of Amazon’s Leadership Principles: a bias for action.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But I found that early advice to be accurate: The first 10 employees are the most important aspect in the company’s life cycle – other than finding product-market fit – and recruiting has to be the founder’s priority. I also post updates – sharing with the team when I spoke with a reference, for example.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. Many VCs do reference calls before they invest and then stop customer contact altogether after they’ve made the investment. Don’t skip.

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

Amazon proactively identifies star performers within their organization and then trains them to be skilled interviewers with a focus on hiring candidate’s who demonstrate 14 Leadership Principles. If you haven’t called all of their references, pick up the phone. Remember one of Amazon’s Leadership Principles: a bias for action.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

We continued to build a lot of trust within the team, and they started referring their friends to apply. We then looped in the senior leadership team for further discussion and to arm them with everything they needed to share the directional changes with their teams. This is where the hardest and messiest conversations took place.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The most likely outcome if you manage to interest the senior exec (for the sake of this post let me call her the CEO) is that she will refer you down the organization to somebody who would be involved in the decision. Not to mention it would be nice to have the CEO on your marketing reference list! The benefits of this are clear: 1.

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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. When giving feedback, refer to the relevant sections in the style guide. Your job is to build a case for why your company is the opportunity for them.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Here’s an example: Image: Author After tallying up your estimates, you should have a clear tally of expected upvotes and the upvote gap you’ll need to fill.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Under his leadership, Expectful grew to profitability and over 13,000 paid users. Right now, the site has a number of references to “motherhood” and women. Currently, a lot of information or advice around pregnancy lives in books or in-person classes. Over time, the idea stuck.

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The Entrepreneurs Library

JUNE 24, 2015

A summary of things you should know about Strategic Business Leadership according to Allen E. With Strategic Business Leadership we first focus on the vision, the long term dreams of the entrepreneur. Then in another month we look at an in depth study of what we call the company merit, what many people refer to as the swan.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

What’s the upside, what’s your advice Shriya, for those looking for a partner, wish they had someone to work with in business. Good, bad, tips, advice. Danielle Salinas: My advice, I have two things. We didn’t hold anyone’s feet to the fire, in reference to holding true to their POs. Compromise.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 26, 2019

An aspiring entrepreneur with substantial financial support is more likely to be able to access the advice of legal and accounting experts to inform the process of incorporating their business. Does leadership of the entrepreneurial support organization look like the population they aim to serve?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Under Lundy’s leadership, the dealership experienced an 800% growth leap, going from selling about 120 cars a month to over 800 monthly. In reference to his first round of success, today Lundy runs a membership group called the 800% Elite Automotive Club. Wath our Video Interview. The 800% Club. It now sounds like caring, Lundy says.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

These references make for great discussions with customers. If you have enough references in your arsenal you obviously want to pick out ones that you believe will resonate with your prospect due to job function or industry. Startup Advice' Everybody has pain points – believe me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

This means the app may be serving up exercise programs alongside diet advice or a course of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to combat insomnia or mood-related issues, or indeed another combination of customized support programs. Vira’s app — Stella — which launched in the U.K.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 2, 2020

You have delivered some great work, and your clients love you and are constantly referring you to other clients and so on. We can reach a similar point in business. Serial entrepreneur Jim Ilievski. You have been in operation for over 10 years. It’s going so smoothly that your team also feels the same level of confidence.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Those we refer to as “enthusiastic allies” make ready use of the tools and strategies we have to offer for making more equitable decisions and to support a greater diversity of founders. I believe it is that this vision is too visionary for the majority of the existing leadership in our ecosystem. Beth Zimmer. Lauren Pehler Pradhan.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

If you offer a quote to a journalist looking for commentary, you’ve benefited from it whether they choose to use it in the article or not because you’ve now introduced yourself to a journalist as a willing participant in thought leadership, and in the best-case scenario, you’ve got online coverage to show for it.

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