Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two HP Style) are dead.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

She'll also lend her insights on how female founders can succeed in business. An author of four books, two of them best-sellers. His latest book is Celebrity CEO. How do you get the attention of your perfect customer, craft a marketing strategy and the tactics to better market your business. Leadership and Culture.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Kim emphasizes that while all investments are focused on short-term financial performance, founders must concentrate on their long-term business strategy to increase valuation. In the startup world, exit strategies are vital. However, founders must focus on creating a business that continually generates sales and profits. .”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Jay Steinfeld, the founder and CEO of blinds.com, spoke with Ramon Ray, founder of SmartHustle.com on the power of diversity and how he led Blinds.com to be so successful. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Blinds.com founder – His best tips for YOUR success. Check out the podcast and Check out the video. The Four E’s.

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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. That wasn’t you.

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand’s representation of reality begins with and grows under the leadership of a company’s founders, its CEO and its top executives. Here is what you need to know to make an authentic brand come to life: The value of leadership. All in all, it was a remarkably successful evolution of leadership, values and brand.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

She’s reached thousands with her messages of marketing, entrepreneurship and leadership. Formerly a Faith Based Therapist and syndicated writer, Labeaud is also the author of thirteen self-help books and counting. So whatever I’m doing, I’m always looking forward to the phase of implementing strategies to support the team and vision.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 9, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Author Greg McKeown wrote an excellent book before the virus. His book, Essentialism , encourages readers to take an disciplined, essentialist approach to their lives. Essentialism.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Among the many books that have shaped my thinking on organizational structures, one of the most important is Frédéric Laloux’s “Reinventing Organizations.” In shaping our team structures, we have borrowed many ideas from the book. Each team is typically working on just one client project at any given time.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

He will oversee the Product, Design and Analytics teams and lead the product vision and strategy for Grab. Last year, his scope was expanded to oversee the Fulfillment product and tech teams that ensure bookings and orders are efficiently and reliably fulfilled using the ecosystem of Grab’s driver-partner network and marketplace capabilities.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2019

Just the immediate priorities seem to take up more than one person’s potential working hours—so it’s no surprise that when it comes to something like social media, many founders have trouble making it a priority. The consequences of failing to position a founder’s profile aren’t always obvious—and it’s usually all about missed opportunities.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tips for Cleaning Up the Books First things first, if you’re not already using accounting software, start now. I told my leadership team about the sale before I told the rest of the company. That blueprint is your exit strategy. Selling a business without an exit strategy is similar. They show you have nothing to hide.

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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. He also talked about the work he enjoyed doing: coming up with our strategy, working with our largest customers (like Allstate, DirecTV), working with VCs (Accel, Upfront, Rincon, Salesforce.com) and talking with future investors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. Meddy CEO Haris Aghadi and COO Abed Alkarim Khattab will join Helium’s leadership team as part of the deal. Helium Health’s acquisition of Meddy is a major expansion play.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2021

Core Kupfer, founder of DealQeust – home to Weekly Conversation, Connection & Cocktails. Ivy Slater, CEO of Slater Success , offering strategy, leadership, and speaking services. Che Brown , founder of The Happy Entrepreneur Network. Diane Darling, founder Dianedarling.com.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Startup leadership is a unique art that not everyone possesses. Hence, its vital for you to have good decision-making, management, and leadership skills. Visionary leaders plan and define their future strategies well in advance. You can be an entrepreneur , but being a startup leader takes some extraordinary effort. .

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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. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Transforming from Labs to Leadership Ten years ago, Alex left behind the world of laboratories and scientific research to venture into the unknowns of venture capital. I also just finished Phil Knight’s book “Shoe Dog” and enjoyed “The Three Body Problem” series earlier this summer.”

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But the more we dug into the market strategy, the more we realized we needed to do more than change how we marketed our services. Next, we brought in new leadership. This is a key principle from Jim Collin’s book, Good to Great. So we did some hiring at key leadership positions throughout the company.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 9, 2019

Several times a day, or so it seems, Rachel Michaelov, founder of Empire Tax Professionals, posts on Facebook one of two things. It's awesome to see how Empire Tax Professionals, with Rachel's leadership has grown from a small accounting, book keeping and overall financial company to a larger one and that's thriving.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The headline speaks for itself : Mike scored a home run with his headline for a story about four European founders turned angel investors who are giving some of their venture capital firm competitors — many they say have not operated a company before — a run for their money. Startups and VC. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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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 seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. EQ and Team Leadership? Smart is simply not a differentiator. Nail on the head.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These employees detailed a low-morale work environment, due in part to the way that leadership sets frantic strategy and refuses basic feedback. Founder Zachariah Reitano, who goes by Z, launched the company after firsthand dealing with the broken and stigmatized ED patient experience. Everything was going towards Roman’.

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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. I also have a physical “to do” book and a system for jotting things down and crossing them off that I follow religiously. Tracy Call is the founder of Media Bridge Advertising. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc. I go through my emails and texts.

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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 watch whether the CEO talks over other people or lets them participate.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level. Steve Houle , inventor and founder, Parkit360 . Siddharth Sinha , founder, Dresma . “It Prioritize.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2020

And yet, every entrepreneur who I know went out on a limb, particularly founders. Still, he keeps on adding to his knowledge by reading books that sharpen his thoughts and perceptions of doing business well with others. These are the four books he says have contributed to his growth as a business owner.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Greg Satell was interviewed on the You Are Not So Smart podcast (excellent, highly recommended) about his book Cascades. Its the Network, Stupid For me the author did a great job of expanding on an idea I first learned from Seth Godin’s book Idea Virus , more than 20 years ago: it is all about the network.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The company launched just six months ago, has already booked $6 million of sales and is claiming astonishing conversion rates across the board, with 250 brands already using the platform, and corraling more than 1,000 influencers onto its platform. “I was head of growth and then VP of Marketing for a company called Bellhop.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Mark McClain is the founder and CEO of SailPoint , the leader in cloud enterprise security. Leading with values is, in my experience, the best leadership position to take, and there are three ways to accomplish this goal. Implement a “management by walking around” strategy. Mark McClain. Contributor.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. To become a board member, you must have a history of leadership and / or management experience at the C-level. At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I cover how I met founder Johnny Boufarhat, how the company started in 2019, what the early days were like, what it was like when the pandemic hit, what hyperscaling feels like, and more: What You Learn at a Startup that Grows from $0 to $2 Billion Valuation in 1 Year What You Learn at a Startup that Grows from $0 to $7.75 We pause hiring.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill Nelson is the founder and CEO of Ruby ® Receptionists , which recently reached its 15-year anniversary. Had we waited for an outside bookkeeper to finish doing the books to know where we stood each month, we might not be here today. Founders bear the weight of the success of the organization and the livelihood of employees.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 18, 2016

By Aidan Fitzpatrick, an EO UK – London member and the founder of Reincubate. There are thousands of books and blogs on the many aspects of building a business, and while it can be tempting to shortcut learning on your own by asking other entrepreneurs what to do, their advice might not always fit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Its portfolio startups from this period include Nigerian companies — Jobberman, a job listing site; Wakanow, a travel booking platform; car marketplace Cheki; IROKOtv, a video-on-demand platform for Nollywood content — and South African e-commerce platform Takealot. They learned their lessons and now have a different strategy.

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