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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

One person can’t shoulder all of these tasks and responsibilities successfully, which is why startup CEOs need to assemble strong leadership team that they can lean on during difficult times. Traits to Look for When Hiring Your Leadership Team. I cannot imagine confronting the coronavirus crisis without my leadership team by my side.

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Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Siegel’s recent book, THE BRAINS AND BRAWN COMPANY: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical , explores how (and why) many business owners in digitized industries overlook and underappreciate traditional competencies like logistics, manufacturing, customer service, and quality control. Can you tell us more?

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Leonard Brody: The Great Rewrite

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” and what to do about it. Along with new competition comes new opportunity.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

When you have such a critical change in the platform structure, you need to rethink so much that it’s only going to happen if you have this very strong kind of top-down leadership. That didn’t require any kind of strong, decisive leadership as much as it just required paying attention to the market. Adam: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Brex: The Future of Business Banking and Cash Management

Y Combinator

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. I think that if I were to rejoin the tech industry now, I don’t know whether or not I would go for a leadership role or an IT role. I was like, “Oh, interesting, and I tried to learn to program, and I failed.”

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Kung Fu

A Smart Bear

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. There are not enough blogs or books about this phase; often leaders go underground. I don’t like freemium ; I want to learn from people who care enough to pay, not from the 20x more who don’t.

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