Gust

JUNE 8, 2014

Experts on this subject, including Yael Zofi, in her book, “ A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams ,” has identified eight key characteristics of high-performing virtual teams that I have observed, and every startup founder should understand and enable: Members exhibit a global mindset – they look outward, not inward.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. Would you choose someone with great skills but not a cultural fit? And there you have it. Not a chance.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

And trust me when I tell you that 90%+ of the people can’t wake up every day with the uncertainties and insecurities that startup founders face. Most employees want cruising altitude, most founders live in take off mode. As a startup CEO you’ll have to develop your own comfort level with what to share and with whom.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 16, 2018

One of the biggest challenges that the startup founders face during the initial stage is the lack of a well-proficient, professional marketing team. A well-rounded marketing team can make or break a startup and that’s why it is essential to hire the very best. Importance of Training and Development.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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Gust

JUNE 23, 2014

The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Build your brand and get leads today. Build your credibility with investors.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

James Sutcliffe is the founder and CEO of The Founding Network , a collaboration platform for high-growth founders. If I were to pick one thing that unites the global tech scene in terms of culture I would point to the respect and reverence accorded to startup founders. Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

This holistic framing made our case stronger, especially with investors looking for brands that can weather cultural shifts, not just quarterly ones. At Spectup, we’ve since helped numerous startups develop similar metrics-driven narratives for their investor presentations. Don’t treat impact as a side note.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

One of the sector’s biggest investments was Wildtype , which raised $100 million in a Series B round for its “sushi-grade” cultured salmon. Now we need to think about brand-building, labeling, consumer education, scaling production, and developing and improving the supply chain and inputs that will support a scalable industry.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Unfortunately, more often than not, these approaches have been disappointing, prompting me to write this list of tips to help founders win over a someone like me. Background So why is it really hard to find a technical co-founder? It goes without saying that being a startup founder is more popular than ever.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. So, you need to develop some thick skin if you want to make it in this industry for long.

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Gust

JUNE 22, 2014

The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Build your brand and get leads today. Build your credibility with investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 21, 2023

This approach and a repeatable GTM process pave the way for sustainable growth and transform startups into unicorns. Nahm highlights the significance of combining the Hero Customer Journey with the playbook to develop a powerful Customer Journey Playbook (CJ Playbook).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. But easy money can create special pressure for early-stage founders, according to Lightup.ai

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As a startup founder and business person, you need to be aware of the looming attack types and understand what part of your business might be at risk. Most companies have already integrated software development and IT operations into a cohesive and efficient DevOps lifecycle. Embed cyber awareness into company culture.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

As a serial entrepreneur in the digital media space, I remember the day 15 years ago when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched Napster — I knew all the music startups of that era were instantaneously made irrelevant. In order to change your company culture and seize opportunity, you need to hire people that are willing to change themselves.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

If there’s one thing you’ll get out of attending TC Early Stage in San Francisco on April 14, it’s an accelerated education in the essentials of building a successful startup. . Don’t delay: We’re running low on $249 founder passes. Evolving from Scientist to Founder. How do you go from PhD to startup founder and beyond?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s also helpful for startup leaders to host open office hours during which potential applicants can ask questions about the company’s culture, open positions and how to apply for them. By seeking out entrepreneurial teams with female managers and employees, you are likely to find more creative, more resilient startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

The absence of fellow entrepreneurs around me and the multitude of uncertainties regarding how to embark on the startup journey added to my concerns. Before establishing MEDIAIPLUS in 2018, I had gained experience in a foreign company, familiarizing myself with its organizational culture.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

Cultivating a culture and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a core principle for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? It’s not an afterthought.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Revolutionizing Retail: Using AI and Data Analytics to Drive Customer Engagement Speaker: AnaMaria Meshkurti, head of marketing, communications and engagement, Geneva Foundation for Tech Innovation Unpacking the Valuation Disparity: How Women Founders Can Bridge the VC Funding Divide Speaker: Brooke Motta, CEO and co-founder, KSOC “Impactpreneurship” (..)

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

It doesn’t mean you don’t develop a personal affinity – it’s best when you do! Our participation in Anchor ( later acquired by Spotify ) generated both a return and a friendship between us and the founders. There’s nothing like the energy you feel when building a startup with everyone in the same room.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Professional Skill Assessment and Development When beginning the startup journey it is very helpful to have gained skills that can be readily applied to the new business. In contrast, an innovative startup must establish a business model or develop and introduce a product that has yet to be proven.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Revolutionizing Retail: Using AI and Data Analytics to Drive Customer Engagement Speaker: AnaMaria Meshkurti, head of marketing, communications and engagement, Geneva Foundation for Tech Innovation Unpacking the Valuation Disparity: How Women Founders Can Bridge the VC Funding Divide Speaker: Brooke Motta, CEO and co-founder, KSOC “Impactpreneurship” (..)

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

And with the recent addition of Gusto Embedded , developers now use Gusto’s APIs and pre-build UI  flows to embed payroll, tax filing, and payments infrastructure into products. When you have a grand vision, where do you start as a founder? 27:00 - Why did you pursue developers and how did you decide to service them?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

After all: Most startup founders pour their blood, sweat and tears into building a business not just to make money, but also to make an impact on the world and build products that align with their mission. This means that simply offering large sums of money won’t get you traction with the best startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Like app development, but more lucrative : Anna writes that Adapty is betting it can help app devs make more money after raising a round of funding. When Greg Soh and his co-founder decided to build a distributed engineering team for their startup, numerous questions raced through their minds: Will the team be productive?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. It attracted a weird bunch of folks — the exact kind of weirdness that happens to make good startup founders, apparently.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

While taking a gap year in college, she worked at Microsoft on designing a build-your-own virtual workforce focused on stay-at-home mothers, and it got her thinking about skill gaps, outsourcing and culture around working with companies from abroad. Yao was in the middle of training 20 women when the global pandemic hit.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When CFE was founded by famed NASA administrator and former U-M professor Thomas Zurbuchan in 2008, its aim was to evangelize entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor and to help instill the entrepreneurial mindset into the regional culture. The Center for Data-Driven Drug Development and Treatment Assessment is their latest example.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Startup culture is informal, which is why some workers end up with job titles like “customer delight manager” or “product whisperer.” ” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 19, 2021

More mature, more focused on inclusive development, less quality coming from university spinoffs. They focus mainly on high-tech machine building and software development, AI. The pros are high-tech systems, collaboration culture and excellent startup ecosystem; The cons are that it’s a small region with limited visibility globally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. So in a way, foreign capital can act as a stressor to African founders. Upadhyay : Yeah, I think dealing with foreign investors adds to the stress of African founders.

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