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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago I shared some important leadership lessons from Stewart Butterfield , including investing in your own growth to make sure that the founder scales as fast as the company. Growing with your start-up can be a very tough undertaking for a founder. There’s typically little choice for a founder CEO.

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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When people can devise their own lifestyle, career, and mobility more than at any other time in history, it’s interesting to ask how a startup can support and encourage its employees beyond a paycheck. So when Austin said he wanted to move to San Francisco from eponymous Austin (Texas), supporting his move was a no-brainer.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. United States San Francisco Bay Home to Silicon Valley, which houses some of the most prominent tech startups and multinational firms, the San Francisco Bay area remains one of the top startup hubs in the U.S.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. How HelpKitchen began The idea for HelpKitchen began with a conversation between Eric Ries and Jeff (founder and CEO of Twilio) and Erica Lawson.

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Tech That Can Make The Freelance Economy Sustainable

YoungUpstarts

by Peter Johnston , founder and CEO of Kalo. Micha Kaufman, CEO and co-founder of Fiverr, believes the freelance ecosystem will become a viable solution for entrepreneurs who need assistance with a variety of tasks for their growing businesses. But what about freelancers? But what type of technology can help?

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Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Startup Lessons Learned

If you need additional ammo to convince your boss, we’ve written up detailed benefits for employees of established organizations.) -- The Conference Core: Two Days and Three Nights of Intense Education and Connection -- We don’t fix what’s already awesome. Here’s an overview of it all, and of course, you can find more detail on our site. (If

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How to Keep Employees Snacking Healthily in the Hybrid Workplace

ReadWriteStart

As droves of workers settle into the new normal of hybrid work — partly remote, partly in-person — more companies are looking for solutions to keep employees’ snack cravings at bay, whether at home or in the office. The post How to Keep Employees Snacking Healthily in the Hybrid Workplace appeared first on ReadWrite.