TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

During my career — spanning entrepreneurship, academia, arts management and venture capital — I’ve learned the importance of female leadership in contributing to successful outcomes. Not only are there few female partners in VC funds, we are also not doing enough to support female founders. Hiring to improve results.

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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. It’s got harder!!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

. — Annika Launay, EO Queensland, CEO of Franc.World Equal Representation At The Top Seeing more women on boards of top organizations and in political leadership roles would have a significant impact on entrepreneurship for women. Workplaces need to go beyond that and embed these initiatives into their culture.

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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

MARCH 8, 2024

In EO, we celebrate the remarkable women entrepreneurs who have shattered glass ceilings and are now paying it forward to pave the way for future generations of female founders to rise. We’ve helped our portfolio companies with introductions with potential customers, board members, key employees, and advisors.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

You’d think tech companies should be the paradigm of how to prep for leadership transitions, since they operate in such a constant state of flux. The findings may not be troubling if these respondents were millennial startup founders, years from leaving their companies. They’re far from it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Contributed by Verne Harnish, founder of EO and founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with over 150 coaching partners on six continents. The qualitative data will guide your senior leadership team on how to react to the quantitative data. Want more Verne? Take a weekly pulse.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2023

— Megan Milar, EO Cincinnati, CEO, The Garage Group Shift toward more inclusive and diverse workplaces As a woman CEO, I believe that we need to eradicate the culture of sexism and discrimination from businesses. We need to embrace and celebrate different leadership styles, perspectives, and approaches. Register today!

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It was created in search of the “untold scent story,” with a culture-led formulation that redefines the constraints of clean fragrance. Called the “Future of Commerce and Work,” it was hosted by the Emerson Group at the Harvard Faculty Club.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There are some founders who see predictions about the future as a kind of promise—and so they hesitate and get uncomfortable around the idea of insisting that X, Y, or Z will happen. It’s a more complete answer in the mind of an operationally focused founder. that same founder will give the most unequivocal, most confident “Yes!”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Ariel Katz is the co-founder and CEO of H1. For pharmaceutical companies, especially medical affairs, the important lesson from this sad and sordid affair is as simple as it is powerful: Your advisory board matters — a lot. Those five words characterize Theranos’ board. Lessons learned for advisory boards. Ariel Katz.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

Plus, a culture of inclusion translates into a happier, more productive workforce. McKinsey studies have also shown that companies with diverse leadership outperform their peers. Your core values tout a culture of inclusion. Tim Hamilton is the founder and CEO of Praxent. The founder of Polar Notion , Morgan J.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. Make A “Stop Doing” List: Achievement is not about doing more.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The significant momentum of cloud computing over the past decade has transformed the modern workplace from a static environment contained within four walls to a dynamic entity, bringing employees together across cities, time zones and even cultures. How will you measure success, both on a project basis and across the board?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2020

We asked Adrienne to tell us more about the MyEO Tasimba leadership experience. She reminds me daily to stay connected to all I learned about myself and the world during our MyEO trip into the Tasimba leadership experience. We immersed ourselves in the culture and the community. Here’s what she shared: .

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member and mentor to startups, and an angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. With massive annual technology budgets and scaled distribution, the largest FIs are the ideal end-buyers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

As a global talent acquisition leadership guru and expert on hiring diverse leadership teams, Debbie shares her insights on how to drive real change within your organization. Companies with a rich tapestry of diversity are more likely to outperform, as well as create thriving, highly engaged cultures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

I see this in cases where sometimes board members don’t want to take on the “Pottery Barn Rule” that if you break it, you fix it. While everybody can easily point at VCs or board members and accuse them of being meddlers, the same is actually true of many CEOs. It sets the wrong culture. CEO’s beware.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

There is a growing body of articles about the important issue of the lack of investment dollars flowing to Black women founders. has stymied wealth creation over generations for Black women, most Black women founders do not have family and close friends to tap into for that first essential round of funding. to be 0.24%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here’s what Tracy Call of EO Minnesota, founder of Media Bridge Advertising , which ranked No. And seeing them hit their stride, find their passion and thrive in our culture is beyond fulfilling. Weaknesses are no longer obscured by “culture.” Tracy Call is the founder of Media Bridge Advertising. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Ben Boissevain is the founder of Ascento Capital , a boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises and valuations to technology companies in the U.S. It should also include more intangible aspects, such as vision, culture and strategy. Ben Boissevain. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

“There are things you can do to make sure you’re not alone” Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio and a member of EO Italy. “The entrepreneurial journey doesn’t need to be lonely” Emma Welsh, founder at Emma & Tom’s and a member of EO Melbourne. In fact, I believe it to be the opposite.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. As somebody who has seen the shift from Innovation to Systematization many times I can tell you that culturally it is very hard for organizations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Diversity in the workplace starts with an inclusive culture. Done right, an inclusive culture should help to foster a sense of belonging and shared values. James Nash.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. Startup founders are driven to solve problems and make a difference – many want to literally change the world. Strategy is everything for a startup company board. A startup board is brave and supportive. Suse Reynolds, Angel Association New Zealand. Risk and reward.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Image Credits: Cleary The company’s founders, Thomas Kunjappu and Ryan O’Donnell, previously ran Twitter’s internal people tools team (and left long before a certain billionaire acquired the company). But what’s maybe most important to HR teams right now is using a service like Cleary to help them scale their culture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Olive AI’s founder and CEO is no stranger to the pivot. More than your investors, or even you as a founder, your early employees will have a tremendous influence on the trajectory of your company. Finance for Founders – Alexa von Tobel, Inspired Capital. You hire them, and often times, they hire everyone else.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Nigel Morris is the co-founder and managing partner of QED Investors. The uncertain economic landscape of 2022 has left businesses and their founders between a rock and a hard place. If leadership erred, take responsibility for the mistakes. Nigel Morris. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Individual investors involved include Airtable co-founders Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman and DocuSign CEO Dan Springer. CEO Khusid told TechCrunch he considers the company a “pioneer of visual collaboration,” with its early days as a digital whiteboard.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Half of ACV’s leadership team are women and across its portfolio that figure is 40%. Wong previously worked at GGV and Qiming Ventures and has served on the boards of startups like Tudou and Mobike. ACV’s efforts to help founders include several key appointments who will work closely with startups.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You have achieved what most founders do not, real customers, paying for something you have created. This is the inflection point where you need to move from Founder to CEO. And yet, according to Noam Wasserman, The Founder’s Dilemma , Harvard Business Review, “Four out of five entrepreneurs are forced to step down from the CEO’s post.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. HIPAA legislation in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?—?one

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. Global leadership pioneering meetings. Initial global Impact Hub leadership team: Simon Ulvund, Hinnerk Hansen, Gabriela Gandel and Michel Bachmann, March 2011. Leadership team.

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