StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Instead of relying solely on one’s own capabilities, learning to delegate effectively using frameworks like the 5 W’s, whether to a person or to AI, has become crucial. So I launched my company—not as a career pivot, but as a platform to multiply the leadership lessons, tools, and strategies I’d sharpened over decades.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Is your company looking for creative ways to stand out and connect with your target audience? While traditional marketing methods and GTM (go-to-market) motions continue to be used, there’s a new strategy you can tap into — the branded podcast. Use a podcast readiness framework Think you’re ready to launch a branded podcast?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the epicenter of tech, where innovation thrives, Alex Luce bridges materials science and venture capital, carving a niche as a Partner at Creative Ventures. “Finally, I wound up here at Creative Ventures, where we have a small but incredibly nimble team.

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A Smart Bear

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Online marketing teams are accustomed to throwing creative things at the wall, with new technology and platforms, because that’s the day-to-day reality of their job. But this also can make decisions more difficult, because finding a good solution is complex, often requiring compromise or creativity which requires time to be realized.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Having a sustainable and systematic customer acquisition strategy is an essential component of success for any organization, especially as a startup. If you have a product or service to sell, you need a customer acquisition strategy. A good strategy will help you grow in a targeted and cost-effective way to attract the right customers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.” Don’t be afraid to get creative and explore new possibilities!” And while I achieved many of them, I’ve endured plenty of failures, too,” Eric says. Goal-setting tends to improve with time and practice.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Global growth of sustainable investing strategies 2016-2020 (The 2020 GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT REVIEW by Global Sustainable Investment Alliance) This wave of change is sweeping across various stakeholders. Moreover, governments worldwide are laying down frameworks for ESG-related protocols.

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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. While it fosters creativity and agility, it can also present challenges like long hours, ambiguity, and an intense work environment. My top advice?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

For instance, Luke Oehlerking, VP of Product and Strategy at solar company Zenernet , explained that Tuff fitted the bill for its ability to “truly move the needle with measurable results” while acting as “an extension of [Zenernet’s] own team.” You can share your own recommendations here !).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

As the market looks toward the future, some venture capitalists are revamping their investing strategies, while others are holding to their current plans, with perhaps a small tweak or two. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures. Michael Anderson, co-founder, Framework Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Minister of Science and Technology, Huynh Thanh Dat, emphasized the importance of favorable legal frameworks, preferential mechanisms, policies, and close collaboration between businesses and universities/research institutes as crucial resources supporting startups and innovation.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups. With larger funds also come more rules and structures around the investment thesis and strategy.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy. The focus is mostly around marketing, because this is where so many startups fail.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? Marketing strategies that help find product-market fit are very different from acquiring your first 100 customers, which is very different from scaling your customer acquisition or lead generation. What value do they add?

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The PixelEdge] workshop and canvasses provided an easy structured framework to work through our evaluation and customer discovery process. This team was a good mix, including people who defined strategy and allocated resources along with those who worked closely with the data. This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Drawing from his background in AI, data science, and analytics, along with his creative interests, he aims to help businesses unlock the power of AI through strategic advisory services and practical generative AI use cases. He brings over 20 years of broad experience in research, technology, and managing international teams.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

And second, I wanted to inform the strategy of my new firm, Versatile VC , from the most educated point of view. . Reilly: In your research, you use the Clay Christensen framework of “jobs to be done”. Lastly, of course, any family office should understand the creative, focused, new service providers which may be helpful to them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Varsity Tutors’ strategy is one version of pod-based learning, which gained traction a few months ago as an alternative to traditional schooling. In this framework, startups are both a bridge to a better future for teachers and a symptom of failures from the public educational systems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Our role, then, is threefold: We come up with strategies that we carry out by experimenting with several proven marketing tactics based on our extensive in-house knowledge and experience. We then construct a framework as part of our growth program that also allows room for certain beliefs a company has.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.” Don’t be afraid to get creative and explore new possibilities!” And while I achieved many of them, I’ve endured plenty of failures, too,” Eric says. Goal-setting tends to improve with time and practice.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Of course, there are also creative companies that find a way to bend the models themselves. Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro. Social Impact.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Our shared commitment to unapologetically innovate formed the framework for our business. Moranne and I are Millennials, as are most of our staff, so social media, digital strategy and technology is integral to everything we do. We sought to change the mindset of modern recruitment. That became the backbone of our business model.”.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It also describes how gender differences can manifest at the different stages of an acceleration program and explores solutions, best practices, and strategies to overcome them. Furthermore, the guide provides sample outputs, outcomes, and indicators to form a framework for gender lens measurement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. ” In a TC+ guest post, he shares five strategies “for capitalizing on the turbulent advertising environment.”

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The last step is creating a detailed business plan, which includes a marketing strategy and growth plan. I’m a big believer in the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) strategy. Once we have a solid foundation, we gather a diverse team of creative minds who bring different perspectives to the table. The MVP Approach.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

What’s required this decade is to start to encroach on the harder questions, topics like how we build a better society, make people more empowered to do deep and creative work, and how we can build a more resilient and sustainable planet for all. What data am I lacking to make a fully-formed decision?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

Someone who scopes out, provides strategy, and knows how to support, cheerlead, and provide sweat-equity to work toward collaborative economic development goals.” “An ecosystem builder is a creative who sees a gap in the diversity of a potentially vibrant, regenerative community. .” Jacqueline Summers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Too many well-funded teams are lighting VC dollars on fire with strategies that neither reach their target audience nor deliver cost effective acquisition?—?funding Here are two Web3 user acquisition strategies that, if done properly, can be a great area of focus on when the market is down.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

So, if you get a bunch of engineers in a room for example, if they need to do a web project, you can count the seconds before the discussion on frameworks come up. Marco: So, at the very beginning, we introduced our digital strategy tenets, if you remember, and one of them was look outside first before you build. Always a pleasure.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll provide a simple framework to calculate the expected value of the information gained from the experiment. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. Much of this paralysis is due to a lack of framework for determining the value of a test.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The European Union also recently presented a platform worker reform — saying at the end of last year that it would establish a framework to tackle bogus self employment. Or “an ironclad principle that we leave no one behind”, as prime minister Pedro Sanchez put at his Web Summit announcement in December 2020.).

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Some examples of VCs originating in creative ways: Pioneer runs an extremely open contest focused on lowering the bar to raising capital for “scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and civic activists.” Betterfront.io

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Investing in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, is transforming the landscape of financial transactions by harnessing the potential of smart contracts within a peer-to-peer framework. Lending and Liquidity Pools: Within DeFi, lending crypto assets is a popular strategy. investment environment.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This is being done through a series of events, workshops, and networking exchanges to bring together circular economy players and enthusiasts – and will keep happening beyond the framework of the program. The six startups embedding circularity. Here’s a sneak peak on their work: . For more inspiring stories like this, head to our blog.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. Recognizing the need for creative investment structures in their Colorado market, they cofounded the Alternative Capital Summit , creating the first community of Flexible VCs and alternative startup investors. . Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. Industries: Sector-agnostic.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

I was fortunate enough to have Amy Smith, the Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, share her perspective on this topic: “The start of the pandemic was a challenging time that provided many with the opportunity to pause, reflect and gain perspective, and this was no different for TOMS. That’s my modus operandi. Find the open space.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. Recognizing the need for creative investment structures in their Colorado market, they cofounded the Alternative Capital Summit , creating the first community of Flexible VCs and alternative startup investors. . Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. Industries: Sector-agnostic.

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