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

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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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

That was the situation I found myself managing as I counseled and guided a company in navigating an internal communications crisis recently after turmoil erupted over a surprise change in leadership. The Board approved the choice, and the new CEO was announced without ­explanation or context. Is the Board aligned with management?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The qualitative data will guide your senior leadership team on how to react to the quantitative data. The frequency you choose depends on what’s going on at your company and the pace of change within your culture. How does your manager’s leadership style impact on your productivity? But don’t obsess about your scores.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

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. focused on cardiac transplants who switched to politics long before he joined Theranos’ board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Customers are surprised and delighted when you don’t price them out, when you avoid cutting corners, when you earn their continued attention and loyalty, and when you demonstrate a culture that is respectful and healthy (a company they would want to support). In the second, I had little to no interaction to inform an opinion.

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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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In a significant cultural shift, the technology organizations inside these FIs have also started to recognize that not all of their tech products need to be built “in-house.” Usually a Chief Information Officer or a Head of Engineering, depending on the organization, the economic buyer is a critical constituent you must win over.

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Revolution

JULY 7, 2021

Revolution Growth decided to add TemperPack as a portfolio company after directly seeing its customer feedback loop in action: End-user requests informed product development, proving both a market need and customer demand on the sustainability front. Sustainability must be ingrained in a startup’s culture?—?from

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They just don’t like making solitary, definitive statements without making sure you know all the variables and caveats—so you can be as informed as possible and not surprised at all when things don’t go exactly according to plan as typically happens in a startup. Those founders tend to be terrific to work with on the operational side.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Four Pillars of Governance Best Practice (strategy, culture, accountability and compliance) still underpin governance in a startup context but they are applied differently than on an established corporate board. Strategy is everything for a startup company board. A startup board is brave and supportive. Compliance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda. I often find myself having the opposite reaction.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The latest from France : Fintech upstart Numeral wants to update corporate banking by “using a modern application programming interface” that will allow its customers to connect “directly to bank servers to upload payment files and interact with outdated information systems.” Been reading more French startup news in the last few quarters?

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Chat keeps everyone informed on real-time progress and allows for quick questions, while Loom empowers team members to share complex processes or ideas in bite-sized, digestible videos. The mentorship program facilitated the seamless transfer of expertise and nurtured a culture of mutual understanding and respect.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2023

Cultivating team belonging and organizational culture Our brains are not wired to connect and build relationships with people located in small squares on a videoconference call, they’re wired to be tribal and connect with our fellow tribe members in face-to-face settings. Similarly, it’s best to handle in-person any human resource concerns.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

It’s a core component of Netflix’s well-known culture manifesto called “Dream Teams.” Here’s a high level overview: People: Executive Leadership Executive leaders are the folks who are ultimately responsible for bringing the company’s vision to life. People: Informed Captain The informed captain is the designated team leader.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

The company has a strong culture of innovation that has enabled them to be at the forefront of the latest cutting-edge technology. Continued investment in R&D keeps them ahead of the pack and the funding will enable them to build on their leadership position in the segmen t.” consystems.com.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. Not only has the pandemic accelerated remote-first culture, it is now seen as a competitive edge to acquire top-notch global talent.”.

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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. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. But it sets the wrong culture.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 10, 2019

If the group cannot agree upon a course of action, the leader must act, even if the action taken is to defer the decision until more information or a consensus is reached. And the pace of leadership. And this rule becomes a part of the DNA or culture of the organization. Employee empowerment.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I have intentionally designed the working environment and culture and have not left it to chance. I have created a board of formal and informal advisors to learn from and to give me feedback. When it comes to my leadership, I know what has got me here will not get me or my company there. Leading a scale up is even harder.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

Responding to that feedback with a killer feature was a great way to ultimately get them on board. Eventually, we attracted well-known investors, and that, along with our culture and growth, made hiring easier. Now, our business required more speed and flexibility as information was coming in and changing week on week.

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HPA

APRIL 7, 2020

HPA recently created a resource guide that aggregated information on finance assistance and business operations. Creating a Supportive Work From Home Culture (Blog). See below for further context and information about these resources. Ama La Vida is a team of certified career, life, leadership and health coaches.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

This annual evaluation is meant to be completed by the CEO, their direct reports and the board members in an anonymous 360 aggregated review. Transparency : Our CEO is genuine and forthcoming with all information significant to the success of the business. Our CEO is building a positive company culture that people want to be a part of.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Becoming a climate neutral company requires a shift in thinking from leadership to employees. The information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem — personal electronic devices, mobile phone networks, and televisions — accounts for about 3.7% Include employees in the planning process and get them on board. Don’t worry.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. Gather information to support your observations. How do roundtables operate? How it works.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates at each stage of company growth. Zoe Jervier Hewitt. Contributor.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In the process, he helped to create a culture in early twentieth-century Durham so entrepreneurial that it became known as the “Black Wall Street.”. These informal meeting places are neutral ground, Oldenburg adds, “in which all feel at home and comfortable.”. 500 before being acquired by Carrier Corporation.

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Surdna Foundation

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Until the late 1980s, Surdna’s grantmaking centered on education (scholarships), culture (arts organizations, libraries, etc.), So how did a white-led family board make the decision to focus on racial equity? During most of its history , Surdna’s mission was nonspecific, a common practice at the turn of the 20th century.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

For everyone in your organization to be on board, you must vocalize and put an emphasis on the values of your business, for example, values such as not taking shortcuts, treating others with respect, and understanding that honesty is the best policy. Share information. Solidify your business’s core values. Be consistent.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. I hope to gain more understanding of cultural differences and how they influence an entrepreneurs’ decisions. Training in collaboration, facilitation and leadership techniques. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The round also includes the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bezos Expeditions (a personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Dash Fund, and Y Combinator. Kristina Shen, a GP at A16z, will be joining the board. Marc Andreessen will take a board observer seat. A rebrand and re-focus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

As overall DEI strategies have become increasingly widespread, more firms have also developed DEI-focused recruitment and hiring programs — 33% of firms have formal programs, while 74% have informal programs, both reflecting steady increases from 2016. Assessing inclusion remains a challenge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. When asked what motivated her, Ms.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With the informal nature of their jobs and a nonexisting credit profile, considering the majority don’t own a bank account, it’s difficult for them to access loans. Most times, your investors and board are present when it’s working. Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises $30M backed by Goldman Sachs.

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