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Why Startups Are Ready For A Reboot

YoungUpstarts

NBC News points out several companies that filed for bankruptcy during the later months of the crisis. Businesses that need to adapt to a changing economy need to quickly or get caught up in the collapsing wave of bankruptcy. In contrast, others had to retool their business protocols to deal with the new demands of a remote office.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). I had taken the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy. Why Do You Work Here?

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Pivot They’re Making in Their Business in 2021

Hearpreneur

I am looking to reopen offices in a smaller capacity when it is safe to do so and when my employees are comfortable with returning. I am listening to my employees and asking for their opinions on how to implement positive changes to make significant improvements to our future work environment. Thanks to James Bullard, Sound Fro ! #7-

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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. As your business grows, you need employees who can execute quickly and consistently, with minimal training.

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How To Cut Costs In Your Business, Without Hurting It

Mike Michalowicz

Full time employees represent static and recurring costs. In other words, bankruptcy. We feel more accomplished when we brag about the 15 employees we have for our (barely) million dollar business, instead of bragging how we have three employees with the per employee revenue exceeding two hundred thousand.

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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

Both Sides of the Table

Psychologist as the CEO of Employees – Everybody wants to work somewhere “that is not political&# but that place only exists in a mythical utopian island. One of the most common “chief psychologist&# asks of me as the CEO was to resolve an inter-personal conflict with another employee. Lived it.

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