TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

.” The company’s web-crawling tech ingested blogs, photo-sharing sites and other sources of information about locales and tagged them to a geolocation in a massive place database.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2010

That investment has driven a huge return for me both professionally and personally—and there’s no shortage of leadership opportunities that are just dying to be taken advantage of in NYC. Be a leader among people just like you and bring others along for your professional development No prior leadership experience necessary.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

It has a bit of a hefty preorder price tag — $499. Adding to the Instacart : Alex also saw that Instacart was adding quite a few names to its senior leadership roster and did some digging. . : Hearth Display, that’s who. The startup brought in $2.8

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Many entrepreneurs struggle with their setbacks. That’s true.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Or having the tough conversations with their senior leadership to say why you can’t continue to allocate resource? Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Afraid to “ upset the apple cart &# by pulling your resources back from that partner and spending time elsewhere? Avoid deciding through indecision.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

That’s called product leadership. Tags: Startup Advice. They loved all the consumer stuff they could “get&# and all the other stuff made them scratch their heads.). And if you come up with something truly novel you can be the buzzword 2 years from now when everybody is chasing your puck.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In each sales situation your goal as the leadership of the company is listening to feedback, calculating the customer ROI, testing what prices people are willing to pay, learning where budgets will come from, etc. Tags: Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice. This is obviously a marketing & CEO activity.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2010

That's why there's a lot of potential low hanging leadership fruit for anyone who cuts across several industries--like Julia Kaganskiy of the Arts & Tech Meetup. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

How-to guides, eBooks, thought leadership, and other educational content can help the target grow familiar with your brand. For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

But in leadership and entrepreneurism the top-down approach will be the right solution more often than not. Tags: Startup Advice. I challenge you to consider whether you’re top-down or bottom up. In analysis there are always circumstances for each approach.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

No matter how much irresponsibility on the part of leadership or others within the organization may have contributed to said demise, the majority of the company’s employees likely worked very hard to help it be successful and don’t deserve to be mocked or ridiculed, even if not directly. Now on to funding rounds.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Between managing my rag-tag team of part-time software developers, attempting to keep customers happy, and trying to sell new ones, I’d been just trying to survive each day. Their leadership impressed me with their kindness, passion, and experience. And, Reigning Champs seemed like a perfect fit for both me and Zcruit.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2010

When you’re not in your office on a regular basis you’re not showing leadership. I often hear the non-CEO management teams from the companies left with no leadership complaining about the lack of leadership. Leadership abhors a vacuum. Tags: Startup Advice. You’re not setting the agenda.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

price tag squeezed out by BlackBerry represented *over half* of the actual cash reserves it had sitting on its balance sheet. 3/ AutoDesk Eyes New Markets: Despite going through leadership transitions and quarterly losses, AutoDesk remains an iconic software company that’s been nearly tripled its market value over the past three years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Superstars are best to hire once you’ve got your product/market fit, proven your product will sell, hired a maverick and a few journeymen and now need to bring in leadership and structure to enable you to scale more quickly and predictably. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice. LOVING Balsamiq!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

But he also used to opportunity to emphasize that he is full of stamina, works late and hard and had always performed well in his previous sales leadership roles for which he’s be happy to provide pay slips as proof. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice. He took the issue off the table. He disarmed me.

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VC venture capital advice leadership 264

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. So going into a startup scenario you bring these innate skills or you don’t. so it’s not pointless to want to improve.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The best results come when you approach leadership like you would create a great product — you hypothesize, you test and iterate, and once you get it right, you grow it.”. “At Heap, the analytics solution provider I lead, a defining principle is that good ideas should not be lost to top-down dictates and overrigid hierarchies,” he writes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2018

We recently talked with Jeff Smith, former president of EO Los Angeles and CEO of JS2 PR , and he explained how EO’s Global Leadership Academy inspired him to create MyEO LGBTQ+. What role did EO’s Global Leadership Academy play in the formation of MyEO LGBTQ+? The spectrum is wide!

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

I do recognize that two years from now, all the top VCs may be on TikTok, but I just can’t justify the time required to take a leadership position on these platforms which are not yet heavily used for B2B purposes. . Tagging recommenders and the news sources that they recommended also helps with followers and engagement. “.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 3, 2016

Whatever works, works … and you don’t necessarily need to tweet it, like it or tag it to get there. This is your brand, your message, your story, so it’s up to you as to how you need to present it. Who are you, what do you stand for, what do you offer, why do I want to work for/with you and what can I offer you in return?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. Go get your anchors.

strategy 293

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Privately you all acknowledge that nobody believes in it yet we’re letting our leadership continue to invest our money and reputation on something we know is going to fail because it has no real basis. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I grew up and played sports all my life.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 23, 2010

Tags: Politics Random Stuff. People who can formulate a new direction: for the country, for a corporation or a college, for the Army—a new way of doing things, a new way of looking at things. People, in other words, with vision.” - William Deresiewicz [link].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

million in a seed round led by a16z with additional participation from their Cultural Leadership Fund, Will Smith’s dreamers.vc, Floodgate, Unusual Ventures and Shrug Capital. Users can quickly tag users or dedicated topics in their notes. ” Moody and his co-founder Dennis Xu tell TechCrunch they’ve raised $5.6

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I’m not a big believer in too much hierarchy. Don’t skip.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

I do recognize that two years from now, all the top investors may be on TikTok, but I just can’t justify the time required to take a leadership position on these platforms which are not yet heavily used for B2B purposes. . Tagging recommenders and the news sources that they recommended also helps with followers and engagement. “.

media 40

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 1, 2016

I was tasked with leading the first-time trekkers, a mighty responsibility that tested my leadership skills and awoke in me abilities I never knew I had. When people needed medical attention, I ignored my blisters and tagged along so as to curb negative conversation on the way. Failure was not an option. Together, we pushed forward.

peer-to-peer 130

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

Such is leadership. Tags: Startup Advice. It occurred to me that it was my job to find the data, synthesize it, summarize my conclusions, provide options for better decision-making and lead the decision-making process. And I learned the skills in my days as a consultant. But for most issues VC’s and boards are tourists.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

But it got me thinking about the topic of leadership and how to manage people through “light&# and “heat&# (think carrot & stick but I like my analogy better because we’re humans not animals). Tags: Startup Advice. As a leader you need to have both heat and light in your arsenal.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Entries show when a company was founded, its founders and executive leadership, and financing and debt rounds (and their contributors). Crunchbase customers can now sync new accounts that meet their criteria to Salesforce and get email alerts on “priority” accounts, or created lists, saved searches, notes and tags for matches.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2010

2) They use what you’re unhappy about as a means to convince you to stay. &# Oh, you didn’t have enough leadership opportunities? Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. No matter how hard they push in the exit interview don’t offer up the dirt.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

David Skinner , Commercial Kitchen Designer, TAG Commercial Kitchen Design Open Industry-Specific Doors Starting a business is a complex and challenging process, and even the most talented and dedicated of entrepreneurs can benefit from having a few doors opened for them by a mentor with some experience and clout in the same industry.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 28, 2010

Second to visionary leadership, this is your most important job. . Many of us go through the motions of hiring to fill a position, trying to use our intuition and skills to find the best candidate for the job. Tags: Depending upon others Growth! No-one can do this alone. No CEO can do this with “B” players or less.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Clarity of purpose in leadership matters. Doing nothing is avoiding real leadership. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I think people with this affliction have a hard time being great leaders. They dither on decision-making. They fudge on org charts to appease people. Companies are the same.

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