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14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders

Startup Blogpost

14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders To gain a deeper understanding of effective leadership, we asked startup founders and CEOs to share the most valuable lessons they’ve learned from successful entrepreneurs. I’ve worked with many startup founders. ” This struck a chord.

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Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one

TechCrunch

In short, developing accessible digital products helps you reach a much larger audience, which will include you, your co-workers and your family. Hiring accessibility experts to advise your development team will proactively identify potential issues and ensure you design accessibly from the start, as well as create better products.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas.

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How Understanding Multigenerational Workforces Can Make You a Better Leader

StartupNation

To support them, provide real-time feedback, flexible work arrangements that favor work-life balance and develop personal development opportunities. Fun fact: Gen Xers make up the highest percentage of startup founders at 55%. Here are four challenges multigenerational workforces must consider: Company culture.

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AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B

TechCrunch

He sees the developer tools category where Harness operates as one that presents a much bigger opportunity with a potential market of 30 million developers worldwide. He points out that developer talent is expensive and hard to find, and his company’s goal is to make these employees operate more efficiently.

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One Reason Why Your Technical Recruiting Isn't Working

This is going to be BIG.

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. While candidate quality is sometimes an issue, or culture fit, or some other quality, most of the time the issue is that the company just isn't getting enough people into the top of the funnel.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital. In France in some ways it was worse because if you failed as a startup founder you shouldered personal liabilities that don’t exist in the US under our bankruptcy laws.

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