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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

YoungUpstarts

Investing has always (and will always) come with a long laundry list of liabilities that can deter even the most experienced investors from making a generous contribution to a startup or early-stage company they believe in. The technology that powers up any developing start-up or company is the foundation of its projected success.

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Manager OKRs, Maker OKRs: How Early Stage Startups Should Think About Goal-Setting

Hunter Walker

Google’s internal management approach has sustained and scaled pretty impressively over the years. Quantitative goal-setting, setting stretch targets — these principles are as evident in the 2020s as they were when I arrived in 2003. OKRs are sensible, straight forward and on a planning cycle managers understand.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). On measurement.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world. Feld Thoughts. Hunter Walk.

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You’re no longer a startup…so now what?

The Next Web

John Marshall began his enterprise-grade mobile device management company, AirWatch , in 2003 as a wireless hotspot management company before providing device management for old-school mobile devices. ” Development of a mobile device management system compatible with iOS shot AirWatch into the enterprise level. .”

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

I speak from personal experience, since I hired and partnered with a CEO, Jeff Weiner, very successfully at LinkedIn five years after co-founding the company. I love the early stages of building a company. They need to be passionate about leadership, management, and organizational processes as the company scales.

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Wisdom from Hyper-growth Companies

Startup Lessons Learned

But the information was critical for any early-stage company that hopes to reach that critical point and wants to be prepared when it comes. There’s great information here about hiring, team structure, and best practices that will make you smarter. But those are constantly changing.

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