American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2024

Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Taylor brings 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles in strategy consulting, Fortune 500 and start-up organizations. Dr. Spears, Founder and Chairman of Cenergistic, launched the Institute in April 2022 with the largest gift by a non-alumnus in the history of SMU.

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. That ticked up to 15.4%

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

teams usually outperform individuals or groups of individuals) but very few Founder CEOs are skilled at creating a high-performing senior leadership team. It’s a myth to believe that leadership has always resided in the CEO. Successful companies have distributed leadership across the business. It’s got harder!!

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to Balance Vision and Execution in Startup Leadership Balancing vision with execution is a key challenge for startup leaders. To provide you with practical insights, we’ve gathered seventeen unique approaches from founders and CEOs.

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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. Drawing from the experiences of CEOs, Co-Founders, and other leaders, we’ve compiled fourteen diverse perspectives. It’s not first grade. My top advice?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Startups are team sports because you’re all working on the same shared objective of the company. That’s what we’re trying to do at Upfront.

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OnStartups

MAY 19, 2021

I’ve been thinking about, talking about and working on culture for at least a decade. Not counting the 15 years I spent being mostly clueless about culture in my first startup). I've spent hundreds of hours working with the HubSPot team to create the HubSpot Culture Code deck. Customer Feedback / Culture Feedback.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams Accountability is a cornerstone of startup success, and we’ve gathered insights from CEOs and Founders to learn how they maintain it within their teams. The best way to ensure this accountability is by creating a culture of trust and reliability among employees.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 31, 2023

” That was the email one of Ethena’s founders sent to me and Melanie Naranjo on 8/21/21, a bit over two years ago. At the time Melania was in discussions with Ethena about joining the startup as VP People, happily employed at a larger company but knowing she wanted new challenges. I know you’ll really enjoy chatting.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. It’s a new year – 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

You’d think tech companies should be the paradigm of how to prep for leadership transitions, since they operate in such a constant state of flux. The findings may not be troubling if these respondents were millennial startup founders, years from leaving their companies. They’re far from it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

In EO, we celebrate the remarkable women entrepreneurs who have shattered glass ceilings and are now paying it forward to pave the way for future generations of female founders to rise. Our goal is to help increase the number of entrepreneurial startups led by women and increase the number of women in early-stage investing.”

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2020

The leadership exemplified by our CEOs has been nothing short of inspiring. That’s why we decided to expand the conversations we were having internally and share them with our broader community through a virtual series on the challenges startups are facing as they look to reopen offices and retail locations. during this tough time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Mark McClain is the founder and CEO of SailPoint , the leader in cloud enterprise security. Leading with values is, in my experience, the best leadership position to take, and there are three ways to accomplish this goal. The tone of the company’s culture comes from the top. Mark McClain. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

T ruora , a Colombian user authentication startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by two Silicon Valley-based venture firms. Today, Truora describes itself as a SaaS startup that builds authentication and communication tools for Latin American startups, marketplaces, fintechs and banks.

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Startup Blogpost

JUNE 29, 2023

What Are Some Common HR Issues That Startups Face? Startup leaders from various industries have shared their experiences in tackling HR challenges within their organizations. Discover how these leaders successfully addressed and resolved pressing HR issues in their startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As an example, only 3 percent of venture capital funding went to all-female-founded startups in 2022. — Annika Launay, EO Queensland, CEO of Franc.World Equal Representation At The Top Seeing more women on boards of top organizations and in political leadership roles would have a significant impact on entrepreneurship for women.

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Jason Malki

JULY 10, 2023

The Co-founder/CEO of Axioned. Libby, leads a renowned technology services firm specializing in transforming the visions of Founders and Innovators into lucrative revenue streams by bringing their tech-product ideas to fruition. What motivated you to launch your startup? What are your future plans for your startup?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Under these conditions, certain kinds of people thrive in leadership roles and can take a company from ideation to production. While there’s no magic formula for what works and what doesn’t, successful startups share common traits in terms of the way their foundational leadership teams are built. If yes, for how long?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There are some founders who see predictions about the future as a kind of promise—and so they hesitate and get uncomfortable around the idea of insisting that X, Y, or Z will happen. It’s a more complete answer in the mind of an operationally focused founder. that same founder will give the most unequivocal, most confident “Yes!”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., If you figure out how to 10X the success of difficult conversations, you can 10X the productivity, culture, and profitability of your company. I guarantee it!”

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Founders Coop

MARCH 1, 2021

Our LPs, many of whom are founders themselves, love our commitment to being first and fast, writing high-conviction pre-seed and seed checks to the best technical founding teams in the Pacific Northwest. We have an enviable track record of helping those founders raise from the best later-stage investors in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

So it was a timely conversation at this year’s Upfront Summit because the week of the Summit, Sequoia had announced that it was transitioning leadership from Jim Goetz to Roelof Botha (and US operations to Alfred Lin). The great firms transition day-to-day leadership and often those who don’t fail to protect their “franchise value.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

IHH Healthcare also made an investment into the startup, without disclosing the amount. Backed by Tiger Global, Intellect is creating culturally competent mental health care for Asia Mental health startup Intellect partners with Asia’s largest private healthcare group by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). Why we run this particular mission.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2023

Register Zhang Yiming, the co-founder of ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok, has established a new private investment fund in Hong Kong. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2021

Not all of us are built to be founders but we can all find a way to back ambitious, world-changing businesses; whether it’s buying their products, using their services, promoting them, encouraging and supporting them or investing in them. Imagine if every Kiwi backed or built a startup! So how do we get there? CAPABILITY. CONNECTIVITY.

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Startup Blogpost

APRIL 21, 2023

As the startup landscape continues to evolve, it’s crucial to understand the benefits that employees truly value. We’ve gathered insights from 12 industry leaders, including CEOs, founders, and directors, to shed light on the top benefits that startup employees desire.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. There’s no denying that women have made many strides in closing the gender gap in tech, but those trends haven’t necessarily been true for female founders. Summersalt (St. Workit Health (Ann Arbor).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Contributed by Jan Bednar , CEO and founder of ShipMonk. I take a different leadership approach. Research finds that structure and routine can lower stress levels, boost productivity and increase focus—all of which can contribute to improved leadership. I do my best work when my days are structured into time clusters.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Today, the company has a few hundred employees distributed across Pakistan, Australia, Texas and Malaysia, but it continues to service startups of all sizes, says Bashir. Omri Traub, CEO of e-commerce startup Popcart , told TechCrunch that their company has worked with Arbisoft since its early stages. How is your team structured?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 2, 2023

From navigating complex regulations and securing funding to connecting with and growing a network, entrepreneurs in Vietnam face a unique set of challenges as they build their businesses: Access to capital: Securing funding for a new business can be elusive, particularly for startups. In the Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Fred Wilson also wrote on a similar topic in his usual more succinct manner , with a great quote being: “One thing I know for sure is that those who advise and invest in startups cannot and should not meddle in the day to day decision making. It’s harmful and hurtful to the startup and those that lead it. Startup Lessons'

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I attend many tech focused events, hearing from tech executives and founders sharing their view of the world. Most of the talk is focused on products, politics, culture or other topics that aren't necessarily NEW or inspiring. Venture capital funding is all the rage for just about every startup. Failures of VC funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

and the agenda is jam-packed with breakout sessions covering everything a startup needs to know about fundraising and operations. TC Early Stage will dive deep on how to fundraise for your startup. Olive AI’s founder and CEO is no stranger to the pivot. Finance for Founders – Alexa von Tobel, Inspired Capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 31, 2022

Excluding sources of investments may alter the way a startup builds and shapes its culture. It can also influence how leadership and directional structure align. Foreign investments can broaden a company’s portfolio while introducing your people to diversities of culture and experience. and more articles from the EO blog.

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