StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success. The company has also spanned far beyond its book-based roots. The post 6 Strategies for Local Startups to Scale Up Nationally appeared first on StartupNation. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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Dream It

AUGUST 2, 2021

A channel sales strategy is crucial to scaling a startup. If not, Evan recommends that you go back to the drawing board. By Alana Hill , Securetech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Book Office Hours with the Securetech team. However, most startups fail to launch and execute a successful channel sales program.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many board meetings are bored meetings. This is a shame since the value that the right board could add is immense if you select the right board members and manage them effectively. Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Some boards are highly functional, many are not.

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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 should note that my friend Brad Feld has written a new book on the subject that I would recommend if you want the bible on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2021

A common topic today in software startup board rooms is: should the company price by seat or by usage? To answer this question and many others, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Madhavan Ramanujam , Partner and Board Member at Simon-Kucher on Wednesday, August 25th at 11AM PT. It’s the canonical book on modern pricing.

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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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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

MAY 26, 2023

With 74 percent of US companies transitioning to a permanent hybrid work model, leaders are turning their attention to measuring the success of their hybrid strategy. That’s because there’s a single traditional office-centric model of Monday through Friday, 9am – 5pm in the office, but many ways to do hybrid work. That’s a mistake.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 9, 2019

I am reading a friend’s book which is still in proofs and so I’m not going to talk about it yet. But there is one part of the book that really rang true for me and that is when he talks about certain kinds of problematic employees, particularly one he calls The Heretic.

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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. People don’t hand us greatness.

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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

MARCH 11, 2019

I’m going to focus this post around the concept of a “board dinner” or “board lunch” since this is part of a series around how to more effectively run board relationships but most of these tips can be broadly applied. Why a Board Dinner (or Lunch)? Managing a board is a bit like flying?—?the

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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 left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Consider: When GOAT started it was a restaurant reservation booking app called GrubWithUs … it’s now worth $3.7 The right number of deals will depend on your strategy. If you’re a seed fund that takes 5–10% ownership and doesn’t take board seats you might have 50, 100 or even 200 investments.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

In addition to his books, Geoffrey Moore assisted in writing “In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers” for the Harvard Business Review in 2009. His strategy for selling in 2009 is relevant to any economic downturn. Luckily, the strategy can be broken down into 3 steps. What keeps them up at night? What are they ignoring?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital. Last year TravelPerk grew revenue by over 70% year-over-year with gross profit rising by more than 90% year-over-year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

According to Ben Wigert, director of research and strategy for workplace management at Gallup, forcing employees to come to the office under the threat of discipline could lead to disengagement, fear, and distrust. So what explains the drop in productivity associated with quiet quitting? However, it’s not always easy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2023

Or, as the late scholar, author and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it in his classic book ‘Flow’, these are the times we find our most productive flow; our path toward personal happiness. Once we have taken stock, we can arm ourselves with the new data and use it to challenge the thinking of our boards or investors.

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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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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The following business strategies can help your venture succeed in 2022. 1- Get Your Online Strategies Right. 30% of customers don’t visit a salon if it doesn’t have a website, and 1 in 4 customers avoid a salon if it doesn’t offer online booking options. Social media marketing. Search engine marketing. Content marketing.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Since these leaders had no margin of error, they tried to find a playbook or blueprint to show them exactly how to execute their digital transformation strategy. Of course, these boards were missing the point. . Organizations traditionally have prioritized their strategy and budgets according to the “business hierarchy of needs.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 5, 2018

” A few hours later, as I boarded the plane home, I read Fred Wilson’s post on Buffett and Munger’s critique of cryptocurrency investing. In the Zurich Axioms , a book written by an American journalist educated at Princeton named Max Gunther. I like Monero, too.” All investment is speculation.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Farhan Zafar Khan, CEO, Book on Board Innovation Investment Index: Gauge for Growth In our startup, we closely monitor the Innovation Investment Index (III), a metric gauging the efficiency of our investments in new technologies, particularly in the NFT and blockchain realm.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

In MyEO groups, you can: • Gather a group for a poker night • Sail with EO members in the Caribbean Sea • Learn how to write and publish a book • Enjoy a whiskey-tasting tour • Learn and share industry-specific knowledge. My book, From Bad to Worse to Best in Class: A Refugee’s Success Story , was published two years ago.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

I’ve read hundreds of books over my entrepreneurial career, a large number of them biographies and autobiographies on famous entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Ray Croc, Howard Schultz and many others. Reading all these books had a powerful cumulative effect that helped reprogram me into an unreasonable thinker.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Yet after a seed round of $2 million many are still doing Quickbooks entries, booking hotels & airplane tickets, negotiating offices leases and digging through employment benefits, legal contracts and such. At board meetings Ophir could focus on strategic questions because he knew that Phil could answer to every number in our board pack.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

She told of the teaching of the Talmud – a book which scholars use to debate doctrine and from which Jewish people are reminded to always learn and to debate. 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.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Rocket often followed the Blitzscaling model popularized by Reid Hoffman — earning them an appearance in his book of the same name. Finding the right balance between keeping costs in check and not underinvesting can mean doing things more slowly than your board would like. billion market cap), Zalando ($21.2

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Actually, I think the best analogy for a social media strategy looks something more like this: If you’ve never seen The Price is Right’s Plinko game, it’s highly entertaining. Guides are more like text books or how to’s. They can take the pressure off coming up with original thoughts each week. Where does it live?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Catch a falling iPod and put it in your pocket… Harri reports on Apple’s patent application for what looks to be a teeny, tiny iPod that can do it all: music, videos and books, no smartphone or smartwatch needed. Price wars : That’s Tesla’s strategy for competing with legacy carmakers , Kirsten writes. I guess we’ll see.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

I read this book, " Why We Make Mistake s " and it talks a lot about "recall bias". So much of this is gut feel with a thin later of strategy retrofitted to seem more than random. The biggest problem is that what gets lauded as successful strategy isn't replicable--or at minimum should never be advocated.

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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. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read). You should, too. (no, This is all explicit decision making.

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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. Creating a winterization strategy for a startup is a less straightforward process, however. chipmaker AMD.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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