Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I think the best VCs act as a sounding board for management. I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. You know the type.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. Smaller businesses may be attracted to blogs, social media posts, and email marketing. If teamwork and innovation are crucial, make that explicit and include it in every job description and related job posting.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While you may be a strong leader, she asserts, the ability to adapt your strengths to each new organization, or to changes within the organization—new board members, new staff members, new shareholders—is the quality that will help you remain successful. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2011

I generally find that people are way to focused on finding the next job than they are at being awesome in the role they currently have. Having a mentor is like having a board member for the company that is you. That's where you should set the bar--to be as good or better than the best people doing your job. Get a mentor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I LOVE this part of my job. My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc. And the VC job has plenty of admin and minutiae.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. I am VERY careful in board meetings and in startup pitches to tell entrepreneurs, “I feel very strongly about my opinion on this topic. My job is just to be your sparring partner. What is a founder to do? In the End Go with Your Gut. Take more advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. We have also hired Kyle Taylor to run platform services as his full-time job. So I put the blog on the back burner to stay focused on those busy times.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 3, 2024

My realization felt life-changing, compelling me to draft this blog post immediately. However, as I reflected on the past seven years of my life, I realized I could have done a better job embracing the other meaning of the quote: “Our success is someone else’s miracle” in my own life.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

For companies ranking in the top quartile of executive-board diversity, returns on equity (ROEs) were 53 percent higher, on average, than they were for those in the bottom quartile … earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margins at the most diverse companies were 14 percent higher, on average, than those of the least diverse companies.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Founder is a state of mind, not a job description” We all love the mythical stories of our great founder heroes who drove startups from scratch and led their businesses many years later: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos and so on. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

It can feel especially awful after you have had a particularly difficult day, and you come home and try your best to describe it to your loved ones only to be met with “stop doing it and get a job so you don’t have to suffer”. I was running my security company and I had an Advisory Board. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2020

You had to be 12 to have a paper route, so Daly hired a bunch of eager 11-year-olds who wanted a job but couldn’t get one for another year. . “I Appoint a board of directors for your life. Daly has a five-member board that he meets with four times a year to make sure he’s on track. Another trick?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

You can expect to see families invest in toys, to keep their children occupied, as well as board games, projects and puzzles that can be done as a family in the evening and on weekends. Hasbro , which currently has five of the 10 top-selling board games on Amazon, has major potential here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He is also the co-author of Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors , and the author of Startup CEO , Startup CXO and the Startup CEO blog. Disengaged or dysfunctional boards aren’t just bad for CEOs and LPs; they’re bad for everyone. are eye-opening and alarming.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I had a 3-hour board meeting with another. I sent an email to another about what I thought we should cover at his next board meeting and what was missing from the deck he sent. He turned me down for a job in 2005. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. CincyTech is a local early-stage public private funding entity that pools together capital from local high-net-worth individuals with local community money who want not only returns on capital but also local jobs and innovation. We have invested $17.3

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

But as I rose in my career (and post MBA) I moved into a role in which I was to advise board-level executives on topics where I was expected to rapidly become an expert. We are their sparring partners, their sounding boards. ” I’ve already blogged about how I work through this process: I triangulate.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. This would be an unbearably difficult job without your support. I have a very stressful job and life. Without this support I could not be successful in my job or in life. Best, Mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” ” My friend Ian Sigelow wrote about this last week and advised people not to take on this kind of job. Nobody sees you as a CEO since you’ve never been one? She joined Yahoo!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2023

Peer-reviewed studies find clear associations between longer commuting times and lower job satisfaction, increased stress, and poorer mental health. In-depth training A survey by The Conference Board reveals the key role of professional development for employee retention. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. It’s hard for angels to assess whether or not to invest because they often have day jobs and can’t commit to the kind of due diligence that most VCs go through.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2010

When a reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people. Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. When you don’t do a good job of generating loyalty to a writer or a beat, you’re not going to get many repeat visitors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

Your job is to find where the other person’s sweet spots are. Your job, as an entrepreneur, is to find as many pieces of the puzzle as you can, from as many different, experienced people as possible, and then to construct your own version of that puzzle as best as you can. and more articles from the EO blog. . Nobody had.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There were days when I was mentally exhausted, but I forced myself to go back to the drawing board and think how I could save my company and my employees. The post My Pandemic Pivot: From 0 to 130 appeared first on THE BLOG. I thought to myself, “This ship is not going down on my watch!”. I needed to come up with a solution.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. Would most young, ambitious leaders rather take a job at Google or Ford? They have truly done a good job of positioning the company for the next decade.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

by Erick Slabaugh, a long-standing EO member in Seattle and former director on the EO Global Board “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” The Origins David Galbenski and I served on the EO Global Board together in 2007.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 16, 2022

Kate is president of the EO Winnipeg chapter and serves on the EO Canada Board as Canada’s Member Products Director. She also serves as president of the board of directors of The Dream Factory , a non-profit for children with life-threatening illnesses. and more articles from the EO blog. . I dream bigger than I ever have.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 21, 2024

Contributed to EO by Stephen Shortt , a founding member of EO Ireland who currently serves on EO’s European Regional Council and European Bridge Chapter board Stephen is a Career and Talent Strategist who helps individuals and businesses match the right people to the right careers though his company, Successful Succession.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Hire great people, equip them, then trust them to do their jobs. and more articles from the EO blog. The post 10 Fundamentals For A More Human-Centric Workplace first appeared on The EO Blog. The post 10 Fundamentals For A More Human-Centric Workplace appeared first on The EO Blog. Build trust.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many board meetings are bored meetings. Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

If you can, start your business in your home office, basement or garage (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and many other legends used this approach). Low paid help isn’t cheaper if it takes them twice as long to do the job, or they do the job wrong. When you let them on board, you lose control of your destiny.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. So I patiently waiting until there was a good opportunity to bring Stuart on board and took the opportunity when it presented itself. Mafias matter a lot to me, as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Don’t stop at the list they give you – This list is the equivalent of the reference list that you’d give your VC (or any other potential employer if you’re interviewing for a job). I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones.

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