Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. At the Agency , 85% of my time was spent navigating bureaucracy and equities, arguing for resources and permission for operations, and dealing with the bottom rung of employees, all while making decisions with little data or data overload.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

Always manage expectations, and always under-promise and over-deliver. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. If you don’t have anything nice to say, keep quiet and wait for another day. You may be dead wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” Sincerely – he is better at managing his board than any exec I have worked with.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Advisory Board. At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors. Over the next week we exchanged emails over advisory board stock. I knew he would bring immense value to me and the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. version, and talking to an advisory board and seed round investors already.” As Su says “We were both in good positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for startup stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

Always manage expectations, and always under-promise and over-deliver. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. If you don’t have anything nice to say, keep quiet and wait for another day. You may be dead wrong.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

When the time comes to hire a complete management team or other personnel needed to scale, the right personality and experience fit are critical. Startups must also ensure they have a solid development stack (the suite of applications that a startup uses to manage its development process).

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

Managing cash must always be your top priority. Too many busy business leaders I know take shortcuts in hiring, looking for a quick fill, assuming new employees can learn on the job, with minimal training and old tools. Establish an advisory board of experienced peers. Don’t sell what you don’t have.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

When the time comes to hire a complete management team or other personnel needed to scale, the right personality and experience fit are critical. Startups must also ensure they have a solid development stack (the suite of applications that a startup uses to manage its development process).

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In addition, there are the managing directors as executive bodies. In the VC sector, it is common to introduce a third body in addition to the shareholders’ meeting and the management. This third body is often referred to as an advisory board (Beirat), sometimes also as a supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat).

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . You must have a strong product management pedigree. See Ready to Join a New Management Team? If the answer is yes to any of these, keep reading.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Do you wish there was a product to help advocacy organizations and companies “Get things done” by leveraging their own employees, their employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around them? . You must have a strong product management pedigree. See Ready to Join a New Management Team?

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

While the company had a great plan for keeping the top executives, and had all the startup perks like free food and dogs at work, they had spent little time thinking about the organization debt accruing with first 100 employees who had built the company underneath them. Identify the employees they wanted to keep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

You may recognize these in your own company, and can overcome all of them with a proactive management focus and conviction: Everyone is proceeding with unreasonable expectations. Too many employees these days, and even executives, are focused only on doing what they have been told, without regard to impact on the business.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 2, 2014

Several of those near-misses were the result of advice from our amazing advisory board – Bill , Ken , James , William , and Mike. ” Then as if they had rehearsed their responses, each of the advisory board members expressed their reasons why it would be a very bad idea for us to do this. Entrepreneurship'

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Many startups have an advisory board of sympathetic people with industry expertise, or people who enjoy mentoring, or people who donate a few services on the come. Once you take investment, you will also have a fiduciary board, with the responsibility of making the company successful. All problems will go away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization. Keeping priority on what matters for long-term success.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2021

#3- Helps employees develop skills. We practice career pathing in our company and mentorship helps ensure that our employees are on the right track to the next step in their path. So, mentorship helps each individual employee develop their personal skills and examine how to advance in the direction they want to go. .

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Before becoming a business owner I used to be a manager at the Boeing company and managed a team of engineers working on the 787 Dreamliner. Everything had potential, but as an employee, my power to act upon the opportunities I saw was limited. 6- Gaining success for your employees. 5- Learning and development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for startup stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I am a lifetime member of the National Association of Business Executives (NABE), and their resources greatly help me in managing both personal and professional development. In the formative days of my rental business, I had the opportunity to join the board of ILEA. #12- Thanks to Emir Bacic, Pricelisto ! #10-

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff put it best when he said that even though every company knows customer references are important, most companies have a lax approach to actually managing them. These may include references, referrals, testimonials, serving on advisory boards, and participating in your customer communities, he explains.

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Board Effect

JULY 14, 2021

Boards should strive to recruit members of different races, ethnicities, genders, expertise, and experience. Requiring board members to be independent – They shouldn’t be employees, independent contractors (or be related to such people), and board members should never materially benefit from their board service.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 8: The CEO as Functional Supervisor…Rules for General Managers. Chapter 13: Promoting …Recruiting from Within, Applying the “Peter Principle” to Management, Scaling Horizontally, Promoting Responsibilities Rather than Swapping Titles . What About Sales & Marketing?, Scaling Your Team Over Time.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The board must approve the plan including this number of shares in the plan, and shareholders must approve the plan as well. It is important to note that each grant to new or existing employees must be approved by the board before issue. Director level employees are typically granted ½%. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

So, new employees who join the company may not know the principles and values you use to run the business and may take them for granted. Not only investors can bring strong networks, but also classmates, employees, and customers. Make an advisory board, and this is a chance to get some important mentors on board.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

That’s what you’re supposed to be doing and what your partners and employees are supposed to help with. For venture capitalist, Paul Suster , it’s not just the individual; the ‘management team’ is essential. I’m personally 70% management, 30% product […] If I feel a priori that the CEO can’t cut it I’m highly unlikely to invest.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You should know that about two-thirds of businesses with employees survive 2 years and about half survive only five years. Management plan. This section outlines your legal and management structure. If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. But employees must be paid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As business owners, you all have to balance getting work done (doing), making decisions (deciding), managing people (delegating), and constant improvement (designing). For example, I was on the Advisory Board of a small company whose founder was killing his health through overwork, even though he felt high focused.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2018

Customers don’t listen to advertisers but recent studies show 63% of people believe what employees say about a product! We are also up to ten times more likely to share a social media feed about a company shared by an employee then we are one from the company. Customers and employees today want to connect to brands that have a purpose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always excited to see that initial surge of revenue from a great rollout campaign. Too busy to focus on hiring, training, and managing employees. Delegating cash flow management to your accountants. That’s a win-win combination for everyone.

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