Board Effect

JUNE 2, 2022

Administration and operations are the backbones of nonprofit organizations. Financial management. It can be challenging to define how funding for operations will translate into helping more people, and a plan of action will help get the point across. Weingart Foundation Dwight Stuart Youth Fund. Strategic planning.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

They require the most money to operate and have to fill out the most complicated forms to get licensed. There are start-ups operating in each of these three spaces, but there aren’t any preeminent industry disruptors in insurance – no Google, Uber or Airbnb – yet. My hope is that the answer is you. She’s based in L.A.,

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 2, 2020

You must abide by your operating agreement. For startups established as an LLC, the operating agreement is the original blueprint that specifies how the company will be run and which members (partners) hold which responsibilities, among other concerns such as profit-sharing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. I’ll explain in detail below.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. Details coming soon!)

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

by Rebecca Stidham, Senior Manager – Tax Services at OUM & Co. For example, the state of California asserts that a company with gross receipts within the state of $561,951 or more for tax year 2017 may be subject to income tax based on economic presence. Rebecca Stidham is Senior Manager – Tax Services at OUM & Co.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Companies like Warehouse Now have developed digital platforms leveraging AI to help warehousing and supply chain businesses streamline their capital-expenditure (capex) intensive, highly underutilized real estate warehouse assets to operational expenditure (opex) based, just-in-time, highly efficient supply chain management assets.

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Board Effect

MARCH 31, 2023

Nonprofits rely heavily on mobile and digital technologies to manage and fulfill their missions. Collecting and managing data has always been an essential part of delivering nonprofit services and activities, but the last decade has seen an increased reliance on technology to facilitate. Download your copy now!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Board Effect

JUNE 9, 2023

Are you managing your nonprofit’s cyber risk? A data breach against Broward Health of California , a nonprofit organization that manages health care in Florida in January 2022 affecting 1.35M private data records including social security numbers. Do you know the true costs of cyberattacks to your nonprofit if it happens?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. How dare you,” the fab manager said. “We The supplier’s CEO directed his business unit general managers to take a SyncDev workshop. That night we flew to Boise.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

Next, we had to figure out how we could deliver that while staying drop dead simple to operate. Kajabi now includes Pages for free to all users, and the rollout supports the advanced marketing functionalities and online course experiences their customers wanted, while making it extremely easy to manage their online businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

This can also vary as you grow and as some owners pull back from managing the LLC. Management. Corporate management is dominated by required formalities—shareholder meetings, a board of directors, resolutions, certificates, etc. Then the Directors elect Officers who actually manage the company. Verdict : It’s a tie!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But that lack of expertise in every single business management category means mistakes are bound to happen. So, if you’ve got a great business idea and are determined to bring it to life, then this article is here to help you avoid the 7 most common business management mistakes. The top business management mistakes to avoid.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

An unrelated article by Morton Bennedsen and Nicolai Foss in the California Management Review attempts to draw links between family assets and firm innovation based on extensive historic examples from around the world. Challenging Orthodoxies.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Transformify

MAY 22, 2023

Additionally, the proposal tackles the issue of algorithmic management, a prevalent practice across various forms of work. The proposed Directive aims to address this issue by ensuring accurate employment status determination, promoting transparency, and holding algorithmic management accountable.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. They are now operating in nine States.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When it launched in 97 it was a DVD rental business whose only real value proposition was the mail-order element of its operation. The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. I started the company when I was 25 years old and had just moved from California to NYC.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you.

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Board Effect

APRIL 3, 2019

As a result, boards are needing to focus more of their time and energy on strategies that help them manage evolving risks. Hospital boards of directors are finding that an asset-only approach doesn’t account for financial and operational risks across the organization.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As the senior management in our business, we saw it fit to bring him on board and pay him not to work but to be a coach to our team. While I regularly ask employees and other managers for feedback on my performance, having an unbiased third party that doesn't work as my subordinate has been critical to my development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

And there are more to come: your first job, getting married, buying a house, having a child, becoming a manager, starting a company, retirement – and eventually commencement speaker. When I retired after 21 years working in 8 startups, I was invited to be a guest lecturer at the business school at the University of California Berkeley.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! They did not take salaries during the first two years and invested more money in the firm than they received from management fees. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Others associate young companies with a lack of structure, management, and funding. If your business operates digitally, consider renting a small office space that can be used for collaborative meetings and external client gatherings. For many people, there are positive and negative connotations of the startup culture.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 10, 2020

The collection of these issues means that healthcare risk management teams have to stay on their toes. Gaining Perspectives from Around the World on Healthcare Risk Management. Operational risks – could impact key operations, preventing implementation of the strategy. The Impact of Regulatory Scrutiny and Changes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Yet in our case the product, the machine as delivered from engineering, was a blank, featureless computer with just an operating system and compilers. Your approach here makes much more sense, but I imagine requires more management effort overall and risks honest, unvarnished appraisals reaching sensitive ears.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The entity operates as a realty brokerage firm, a non-bank mortgage origination bank, and an escrow business. In addition, LendPlus adheres to a strong risk management culture and robust internal control systems that help ensure compliance with the relevant regulatory requirements.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The time difference between Washington and California often doesn’t help. How do you get a supply chain manager for a clothing manufacturer to take your call? “We Or is it satellite operators, or satellite insurers? In practice, students learned that civil servants are busy and sometimes hard to reach.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? How to manage costs - One of the biggest frustrations that people have with lawyers are unexpected costs. I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. He mostly covers Southern California. Good people and evil people.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. He was the CEO of two startups.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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