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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Franc.World aims to change this narrative by opening the doors to conversations about self-discovery and future career paths at a younger age through their multimedia offering that includes books, documentaries and podcasts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Years ago, in one of our quarterly offsite meetings, a leadership team member told our facilitator, “I just don’t have enough time!” Yet, being “busy” doesn’t make us happier; and it doesn’t make us more productive. It just means we are filling all of our available time.

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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. CEOs may resonate with a higher-end content strategy such as white papers, books, or even a branded podcast. In addition to high-level conferences, where else can you meet CEOs? None in your area?

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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. It’s a myth to believe that leadership has always resided in the CEO. Successful companies have distributed leadership across the business.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

Many times, optimism would be dashed by another Covid-19 variant that would wipe out bookings for the quarter. As board members, there were many hard conversations and no easy answers. We leaned in during weekly board meetings and reinvested when others left the cap table.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 24, 2017

In this excerpt from his new book, Stupid Enough to Succeed: The Millennial Entrepreneur’s Guide to Achieving Business Hypergrowth , Jeff Naeem shares tips for successful delegation. Use a method similar to the SBI Feedback Tool developed by The Center for Creative Leadership. Let’s start with the “D” word.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2024

That’s more than enough to write a few chapters of a book. Visualize Your Goals: As part of an annual tradition, we started off January 1 in my family by making family vision boards. A vision board is a great way to document your goals for the year and keep those objectives front of mind.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve been steadily progressing through the excellent books in the Stripe Press catalog. It’s the best book I’ve read on engineering management. The book abstracts out the wisdom of those times into theory abstracted from experience, not just hypothetical ideas. First, I read High Growth Handbook.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

McKinsey studies have also shown that companies with diverse leadership outperform their peers. To combat this, our team began reading more literature about diversity and forcing our top leadership to have more uncomfortable conversations. A great book I’d recommend for more shrewd businesspeople: The Diversity Bonus.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Apple and Rackspace use the employee Net Promoter System (eNPS), a metric that is picking up traction, as Fred Reichheld, the intellectual father of the NPS, mentions in his book The Ultimate Question 2.0. The qualitative data will guide your senior leadership team on how to react to the quantitative data. Make it a conversation.

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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. In your book, you share two attempts at radical transformation – one by a traditional company that tried to add brains, and one by a tech company that tried to master brawn.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2020

In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. In your book, The Innovation Stack , you talk about the difference between and entrepreneur and a business person. When everything affects everything, you have a dynamic system.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

They might face an inflexible Board of Directors, or the C-suite might be united in demanding that employees return to the office for much or all of the workweek. He wrote the first book on leading hybrid teams after the pandemic, his best-seller Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams , as well as seven other books.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?” everything.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Beforehand, I read his book Tape Sucks , watched some of his videos on YouTube, and read his blog posts. He said if he were to join a startup’s board he would push the business very hard - very, very hard. The company and the board needed to sign up for exactly that. I remember the first time I spoke with Frank Slootman.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Mistake 3: Lack Of Leadership I have often observed that product inventors are not necessarily good communicators or leaders. Good leadership is the secret sauce of a successful startup. And always remember: Leadership is not everybody’s piece of cake. It’s so easy, and there are many books on how to build startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SME-focused business travel booking platform TravelPerk has topped up the $160 million in equity and debt it raised last in a Series D last April with an additional $115 million — closing out the round at $275 million. TravelPerk said its business is now being valued at $1.3

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

I can assure you that move wasn’t a walk in the park for the board. You need to understand power, ownership, leadership, performance, relationships, motivations, alcoholism, depression, resentment, jealousy, scorn. First, I recently read the must-read book Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton. Foursquare? Noah Glass.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

I’ve sought out CEOs, presidents, board directors and more for companies big and small, ranging from small startups to corporations with valuations in excess of US$10 billion, on every continent except Antarctica. They can fist-bump all the way from the janitor to the board. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

We built a business with $36 million in bookings and real customers who relied upon our service. So we as a board kicked off a search for the next CEO. But he went on run North American sales for Legent where they grew from $28 million to $700 million under his leadership and helped sell the company to CA for nearly $2 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches. I haven’t read the book nor deeply reviewed Project Aristotle but the conversation on this morning’s show really resonated with me. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Guides are more like text books or how to’s. The where does it live question is also an equally complex one, but the way we’ve got our Plinko board setup above, e-mail and LinkedIn clearly play an important role—and I’m a big believer that you’re missing out if you’re not using both.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Most VCs are book smart. In fact, book smart can be a negative. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. EQ and Team Leadership? Now you’re talking.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team. What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Under his leadership, the company achieved 93% Y/Y revenue growth from 2020 to 2021. When the startup had scaled enough to hire sales leadership in New York in 2016, AJ introduced me to the executive team, with whom I immediately felt a strong connection. That’s actually the title of a book by Ryan Holiday, one of my favorite authors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, if someone closes a deal in Salesforce for $1 million in bookings, the system will separate out what is considered one-time revenue and recurring revenue. From there, the user can slice and dice the data into what they need for investors, board of directors and leadership teams to make data-driven decisions.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Excerpted from “Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership,” by Jason Richmond (Ideal Outcomes, Inc., As Vibhas Ratanjee, Senior Practice Expert, Organizational and Leadership Development, Gallup, says, “You may not be ready to think about the next catastrophe, not now when the unknowns outnumber the knowns.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Here’s the short, short version of other stories: Powering job boards : While the tech sector is seeing layoffs, Kyle reports that Gloat grabs $90 million to build better internal job boards. Carly writes that cybercrime operation RansomHouse (why do these sound like book publishers?) chipmaker AMD.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Used by permission of HarperCollins Leadership. They sought case studies and examples of successful companies they could model, anticipating their boards’ reaction to the digital transformation plans they were considering: “Has this been done before? Of course, these boards were missing the point. . Bird in hand, they said!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss How to find funding for your startup as valuations and terms return to pre-bubble norms The top-rated business books of 2022 Let’s do this. A real board, including a board seat for the lead investor, and perhaps a board observer role for a second large investor.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

Keenly aware of the need to build, support and professionalize angel investing, they devoted their partnership energies over the last decade to writing books and articles about angel investing, as well as speaking, developing courses and teaching. It has been the defining pleasure of my professional life to give back to this community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

I also have a physical “to do” book and a system for jotting things down and crossing them off that I follow religiously. It’s been like having my own board of directors, for both my business and personal life. I don’t understand why anyone wants scalding hot coffee, anymore than they want a scalding hot shower.

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OkDork

AUGUST 5, 2022

There’s a lot of good books on starting a business… But not a ton on growing or scaling. There are 2 key questions the book asked that inspired me to think about AppSumo’s trajectory differently: If you can ONLY do one thing to help your business the rest of the year, what would it be and why? Amp It Up Book Review: Key Takeaways.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Jobber’s app covers a wide variety of functions, from invoicing and payments through to booking and managing appointments, as well as some marketing tools both for sending out e-mails but also building and sending out quotes, and also a lending feature for credit lines for its users. . Goldman has joined Jobber’s board with this round.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 27, 2020

As everyone knows, ever since the coronavirus pandemic hit us, most of these businesses have gone from making money to generating almost zero revenue, across the board, in a matter of weeks. All of us have read many books written on grit and resilience, and now is the time to put all of that learning into practice.

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