Forward Cities

MAY 26, 2025

Delivery (December January 2026) Finalize implementation plans and documentation for each project. ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND Forward Cities is a national nonprofit with a firm belief that every entrepreneur deserves an equitable chance to launch and grow a business that generates wealth for themselves, their families, and their communities.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Playful, sport-specific headlines : Phrases like "RUN SUMMER" and "FLOW WITH THE GO" tap into fitness culture—lululemon's target industry—while keeping the tone fun and approachable. Clear CTA : There's a clear call-to-action: "Shop Now." Get started." They're meant to feel current and in the know.

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StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

What matters most isn’t just how much you made but whether your business has shown steady, well-documented performance over time. That’s why it’s super important to document processes. If your numbers are messy, incomplete, or unclear, the conversation usually ends there. Define roles clearly.

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

Instead of trying to beat offshore suppliers at their low-cost structures, capitalize on your demographic industry knowledge, culture, and specific skill sets that come at a premium. Clients can be educated through email signatures, voicemail greetings, and onboarding video documents whenever they wish to set these expectations.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

This document can look different depending on what it's used for. Each chatbot is customizable to your needs, so you can feed it your own documentation to tailor the output even more. The document effectively conveys the non-profit's cause, engages stakeholders, and develops support.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. I was stuck in startup culture and he was stuck in big company culture and their was a chasm between us that couldn’t be rectified. But the truth is that he was right about the need to for us to change as we grew and I think this happens at a lot of startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

As a result, it opens up opportunities for growth, innovation, adaptability, and a strong culture. Enhanced communication My team now collaborates more effectively, leading to a stronger culture and better project execution with improved outcomes and performance. A few of the most impactful benefits I’ve realized are: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While the film’s original concept was to showcase Canada’s surf culture at large, filmmaker David Kalinauskas uncovered Lennert’s story—and knew it was one that needed to be told. I just feel so honoured and humbled to have my story documented,” Lennert reflected. And to have my life with my partner documented forever that way.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. “You have to pick a side, you’re either office culture or ‘cloud culture.’”.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

To address the core challenges of remote work and to bolster employee efficiency and engagement, businesses can utilize the following approaches: Building an authentic work culture. Building An Authentic Work Culture. Remote work culture must be a people-first culture. Ensuring undisputed means of communication.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. We’ve experimented a lot: strategy docs, all-hands, documenting our 5Ss (the five most important initiatives across the company), and OKRs. What is Faire’s culture? Our culture can be described by our five values.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Under the proposed changes, venture capital firms and government-recognized startup accelerators will play a key role in assessing applicants’ business plans and issuing preliminary documents.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Mergers and acquisitions are notoriously tricky to navigate from a leadership and culture perspective. He’d actually drafted a similar document outlining his view of success if we were to join forces. For example, Auth0’s collaborative culture has already helped Okta reignite its startup spirit.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Their culture is flexible and collaborative, making it a top Detroit startup to work at, and they’re constantly innovating and helping small businesses find the banking tools they need. Their culture of growth, teamwork and opportunity is at the heart of everything they do. FinTech companies. Detroit Labs. Petram Data. CatalystXL.

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StartupNation

MARCH 8, 2021

Today is International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. If you’re a solopreneur creating these documents for the first time, make sure they’re inclusive from the start. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Jean Smart , Founder and CEO, Penelope Foster Autonomy and Purpose At Salarship, our secret strategy for increasing team productivity is to foster a culture of autonomy and purpose. These strategies have allowed us to build a powerful company in the FinTech industry and should help you build a successful startup as well.

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Onevest

MAY 14, 2015

Look at the data and get a feel for the practical value each prospective co-founder can bring to the mix, and the culture and personality fit, but don’t stop there. Ownership, responsibilities, and a clear path for exiting the relationship should all be documented and committed to paper. Consider doing a little reconnaissance too.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is no culture, country, nor period of human history where creative expression hasn’t been central. Each of the many documents, presentations, missives, notes, and posts we do in the course of our days would likely be more effective — and certainly more enjoyable to receive — if they were aesthetically interesting.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

Whatever the case, giving employees the option to work from home occasionally is a practice that has gained momentum within most parts of the service economy, and is an accepted part of many companies' cultures. Among those things: • Helps retain valuable employees who require flexibility in their workdays.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Having made more than 160 investments himself, De Wever says he recognized the need for a platform connecting investors and startups based on merit, clean data and transparency, rather than a system built on “warm introductions,” which can have inherent cultural and even racial biases.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Working with writers to create documentation. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

If you lead with the business benefits that the changes could have on recruiting, culture and morale, the opportunity for pushback will be limited. They’ll need to consider every possibility and develop new documentation and contracts that might not already exist. Get outside support from legal experts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In its S-1 document, Uber said it incurred $457 million of research and development expenses for its ATG and “other Technology Programs” initiatives. Aurora has touted its “no jerks” policy and its company culture, which is now about to absorb hundreds of new people. What Aurora values.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. What should banking look like for modern couples?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

FreightRoll claims that its app-based, paperless trade documents can save shipping companies up to 30% of freight overhead costs. It also just won the Digiday Worklife Award for Most Collaborative Culture. FreightRoll. It’s also another solution to make your supply chain more visible. and the world. Apply to KLA now. . Duo Security.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The document outlines expectations for the role and frames the interview process in stages, communicating which stage the candidate is in at any given time to ensure we are working within their ideal timeline. Most candidates will ask questions in the document, as it can be more approachable. Tell me about this process.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Yogishi Chandra, CEO of Teknobuilt, said, “Even in an environment with a different language or business culture, we could participate in the K-Startup Grand Challenge, hold business meetings with domestic companies, and promote business smoothly through Korean interns.” ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

The important part here is to find companies with strong engineering cultures, i.e. in-house development team and are vocal in how they operate such as publishing an engineering blog. A pitch deck is a teaser, not a document containing trade secrets and an idea on its own is useless, it’s the execution of that idea that counts.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Look at Docusign, as one shining example — a company many folks thought would be a $1-2B outcome for a feature (e-signatures) transformed into a $10B+ document management platform. Here’s why: 1/ Pro-sumer Trend Has Legs In Enterprise: The freemium pricing model ushered in a new wave of business applications and services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And you’ll find those cultural dynamics are radically different in other countries that don’t have the same history of discrimination, especially when looking at a team or assessing founders. We have to ask ourselves whether governments are really searching for the best minority-owned startups to help them get sufficient returns.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How do you assess and find what resources are available, then organize it all, document it, and publish it to make it available? Adopting a collaborative mindset and approach of continuous iteration influences a community’s culture where mapping becomes a key tool to continuously improve. But many don’t know how to get started.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) Action: Document your core values, collaborate with stakeholders that share those values, and be ready to compromise on everything else. to achieve lasting impact.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

" I recommend writing out the directive on a separate document first, so you can go back and tweak things as you see fit. You could also create bots that help you with legalese, cultural context, or specific buzzwords. Be specific, and include examples of what should be revised and some suggestions for how to revise.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. It makes a lot of sense that you talk about even cultural differences in the way that people work or the way that people communicate, running a global company as you did, I’m sure you saw that. Mine, I edit constantly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

You can take a skills-centric approach, where you reserve different resources and connections based on marketing, hiring, fundraising and culture-creation that can be applied as the startup grows. And how could you help them exit?

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