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5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders

StartupNation

Writers suffer writer’s block, designers hit a creative wall, and founders get analysis paralysis. Instead, do the research and networking your industry might require, but don’t ignore the value of bringing some ignorance to the table, as that can sometimes shift to courage.

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Improving startup results through female leadership

TechCrunch

Diverse teams have also been found to produce the most creative ideas. A key tenant of the Design Thinking and Lean Startup methods — which have served entrepreneurial ecosystems well — is to lead with action. Let’s take specific actions that will result in more female leadership in the startup world. Hiring to improve results.

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Grab a group discount and take your team to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

TechCrunch

They’ll have plenty of insight and advice to share, including the challenges that startup founders will face as they break into the transportation arena. Taking your team also makes you a highly efficient networking unit. You’ll hear from CEOs like Starship Technologies’ Ahti Heinla.

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Bootstrapping Organic Growth Makes Startup Sense

Gust

Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering. Network big to get connections and ideas, but do the work yourself. The tough times are what separate the survivors from the many strewn casualties lying alongside the startup highway. Practice creative marketing.

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To win post-pandemic, startups need remote-first growth teams

TechCrunch

In the interview below, she says that after the pandemic, startup founders will need to develop a mentality that places growth at the center of company strategy. As with pre-pandemic growth, their success rests upon fast-accumulating network effects and great, sticky core product experience.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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Impact Hub Zurich x Patagonia: Protect the ocean so it can protect us

Impact Hub

Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp This is where the story of Patagonia and Impact Hub Zurich begins. Through this partnership, shared resources, networks, and expertise will be utilised to develop new and innovative solutions for complex environmental and social challenges.