Startup Blogpost

MARCH 15, 2024

14 Pieces of Advice for Resolving Conflicts Among Startup Team Members Navigating team conflicts in a startup environment requires wisdom and practical strategies. Dawn Hart , Senior Consultant, Manage With Hart Rule Out Misunderstandings First Listen, ask questions, and gather all the context. My top advice?

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to Balance Vision and Execution in Startup Leadership Balancing vision with execution is a key challenge for startup leaders. When you outline exactly where you want your product, company, and strategy to go, you avoid the frustrating “paralysis by analysis,” as you can just stop thinking about the future.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data shows that ethically-focused honorees outperform peers With so much social, business, and political turmoil seen in today’s culture, Ethisphere, a global leader advancing the standards of ethical business practices, offers some reassurance through its list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2024.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., My consulting firm has used them with over 100 companies. Also, check out Real Simple Business , where Barry shares his successful business secrets. I guarantee it!”

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

From fostering a culture of trust to assigning clear task ownership, explore the diverse strategies and tools in these fourteen responses that can help ensure your team stays on track. The best way to ensure this accountability is by creating a culture of trust and reliability among employees.

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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. Assigned to consultants and marketing people with varying degrees of expertise, the creation of the brand is put at risk of becoming a kind of bolt-on feature. Most aren’t.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

To take that lesson and scale it, Church is launching a new product, available today, that will connect leadership teams to an HR executive who will help craft a company communications plan, a diversity and impact analysis, and day-of support in conducting the layoffs. 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2023

Given that data, when I consult for organizations on determining hybrid employee work arrangements, a primary consideration involves minimizing staff commuting time. Mentoring and leadership development often takes subtlety and nuance, navigating emotions and egos. Similarly, it’s best to handle in-person any human resource concerns.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I began my career at Oracle in the mid-1980s and have since been around the proverbial block, particularly in Silicon Valley working for and with companies ranging from the Fortune 50 to global consulting companies to leading a number of startups, including the SaaS company I presently lead. Some of it, in truth, has been window dressing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

The next phase at Lenskart is a journey of 10 to 100 where we are focusing on building a diverse culture that enables innovation and execution at scale while solving a large bottleneck hindering high quality vision for all. Bansal declined to comment on revenue figures, but said the startup is profitable.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Used by permission of HarperCollins Leadership. 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. Organizations traditionally have prioritized their strategy and budgets according to the “business hierarchy of needs.”

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Reforge

JANUARY 31, 2023

On the heels of the pandemic, we’ve seen a number of flexible work arrangements emerge: remote companies, part-time tech, and more freelance consulting than usual. Regardless, their function is to give advice, but they don’t typically interact with people outside of the core leadership team or own any tangible deliverables.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

It’s a core component of Netflix’s well-known culture manifesto called “Dream Teams.” You’ll also get a chance to explore common mistakes and strategies for troubleshooting so you can build off of Tom’s Dream Team experience instead of starting from square one. Do they have sufficient cultural, customer, and business understanding?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2015

What’s more, they not only embrace company culture, they hold you accountable for it. To help with employee retention in my company, I hired a coaching consultant who specializes in the Millennial generation to serve as a “bridging voice” in our operations. And yet it doesn’t necessarily retain them.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. 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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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2020

McKinsey , Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and the Peterson Institute for International Economics all found that having a high percentage of women in a company’s senior leadership results in significantly better financial results. I’ve worked in tech for over a decade, helping startup companies to create a truly diverse company culture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

“95% of the population will never understand why we do it” Raymond Chou, founder and CEO at Infront Consulting APAC and a member of EO Malaysia. I now feel more connected to myself, my purpose, my family, and my team. Entrepreneurship can be both lonely and depressing; sometimes at the same time. In 2007 I came across EO.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This lesson has not only helped my business thrive but also shaped our company culture, emphasizing compassion and resilience as core values. Staying attuned to these changes and being willing to pivot our strategies has been instrumental in our growth. Business is not just about transactions; it’s about people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. So I find that less “management” happens at these firms.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As an example of this: businesses with above-average gender and racial/ethnic diversity in leadership roles are eight times more likely to be in the top 10% of organizations for financial performance, according to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast Diversity & Inclusion Report 2020. Actions in support of diversity and inclusion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In addition to our love for software development, we also had strong ideas on the kind of culture that would likely inspire smart people to do their best in a technology-focused organization. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups. Arbisoft is a manifestation of many of those ideas. How is your team structured?

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

Hiring managers face difficult decisions when assessing for personality, culture fit, and soft skills. For this reason, you need someone on your hiring team with deep knowledge about the company’s culture, its goals, and values. If there is still no clear winner, don’t jump to consulting your gut instinct just yet.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Tyler Butler , Chief Social Impact Officer, 11Eleven Consulting. Once defeatism creeps into your body language, your employees will lose confidence in your leadership and start jumping overboard. Communicate Clearly Your Strategy for Growth. This can easily bleed into company culture. Ask the Team for Help.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog. This cultural change starts with the leaders actually doing what they want other people to do. It can get complicated, fast!

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I spent a decade consulting for Fortune 500’s with massive customer data sets?—?data Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the I bet the answer is no.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

The essence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is its people and the culture of trust and collaboration that allows them to interact successfully. Some organizations provide direct services such as business management training, legal or financial consulting, or assistance with sales and marketing. Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

During the recent Reimagine Success event , one of the featured speakers was Yiannis Chrysostomidis , managing director of Sustainable Futures , a boutique sustainability management consultancy in London. EO aims to amplify the positive through its sustainability strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is proud to support International Women’s Day (IWD), which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. As consultants, we spend a great deal of time designing business plans, hiring and training programs, and brands with our clients.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

They’re highly committed to body positivity and diversity, both in their advertising and in their company culture. She’s also the founder and CEO of Middle Third, a boutique consultancy focused on mobility strategy. They’ve done innovative work with sizing, taking over 1.5

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Now it’s becoming central to corporate mission and strategy, and it’s evolved into a valuable recruitment tool. For example, my company is a consulting firm. Related: The 6 Elements of a Great Workplace Culture Your Startup Needs. Foster your purpose through culture. So where do you start?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

High employee turnover is often a hint that a company’s human resources strategy isn’t working, but it’s also difficult for managers to identify who is thinking of leaving. Employers seek leadership positions externally and are not promoting enough from within.” million in pre-seed funding from Gammite Ventures and Aaron Grossman.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2021

As the ‘inspire’ arm of EO’s Inspire, Learn, Act series, we’re inviting and engaging members to become a part of EO’s sustainability strategy.”. Finally, sustainability consultant Yiannis Chrysostomidis, Managing Director of Sustainable Futures, EO’s sustainability strategy consultant, presented EO’s sustainability strategy.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Kevin Lee, Executive Chairman of Didit, emphasizes the importance of having a content syndication strategy alongside a content creation strategy. I’m not active there.

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

Hiring managers face difficult decisions when assessing for personality, culture fit, and soft skills. For this reason, you need someone on your hiring team with deep knowledge about the company’s culture, its goals, and values. If there is still no clear winner, don’t jump to consulting your gut instinct just yet.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Instagram is primarily a place to showcase our culture. Cindy Machles, CEO, Glue , says, “In this noisy world, you are more at risk of stretching yourself too thin than overmarketing.”.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

Mentors have years of working in the industry they are consulting for and can identify business opportunities for the startup. They can identify pitfalls, recommend marketing and sales channels, and give feedback on strategy and tactics. I learned new strategies and saw ones I thought were impossible to execute became possible.

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