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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

Leaders are judged on key elements of execution, including a focus on priorities, ensuring clear accountability, managing decision making, mobilizing others, adapting quickly, and communicating execution urgency. Leadership brand development. Modern information management tools. People relationship focus.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If they or you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, it may be time for change or looking elsewhere. Neither partner needs to be managed. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Recruitment: Top mistakes made by hiring managers

The Startup Magazine

If you do make a bad hire, you might have the chance to rectify it through the initial probation period, but in general it’s something that can cost your business a lot, particularly if you are a startup. You don’t perform due diligence. It means that mistakes come at a cost. You don’t follow your gut.

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10 Lessons To Be Learned By Winning Teams Everywhere

Startup Professionals Musings

When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot. Then it extends to the hiring process. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage.

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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Leaders are judged on key elements of execution, including a focus on priorities, ensuring clear accountability, managing decision making, mobilizing others, adapting quickly, and communicating execution urgency. Leadership brand development. Modern information management tools. People relationship focus.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. I’ll address the specifics of what this Founder Developer Gap looks like below. Gap closed, right? Probably not. Accounting?

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10 Strategies To Make You A Lucky Winner In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot. Then it extends to the hiring process. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage.