The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Prudent startup leadership should thoroughly discuss with insurance providers the specific scenarios and coverage amounts, ensuring robust protection against multivariable exposure. Still, the right commercial auto insurance policy provides confidence to focus on core operations, not liability risk.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. When should founders hire one? For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. Suffice to say, if you’re hiring a COO at your startup, you’re about to make some tough tradeoffs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures. It is harder to diversify if your first few hires are homogenous, so branch out beyond your typical hiring pool to seek out diversity of all types —race, gender, culture, and education. Look to organizations like i.c. Look to organizations like i.c.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Afterall, I hired them for their expertise and not simply to follow a set of instructions every day. I would describe my leadership style as individualized, and balanced. Thanks to Jordan Fuller, Perfect Captain ! #3-

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2022

How To Build Great Leadership Teams written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In 2009, he co-founded a new firm, Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on working with CEOs to unleash the potential of their leadership teams. Key Takeaway: Leadership teams have an enormous impact on their organizations.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. This provides both valuable experience and an understanding of the operational issues within each sector.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Actually, building and nurturing the right team is the hard part, requiring communication, hiring, and leadership. Your leadership skills do not develop without effort. In addition to locking in his leadership position in electric vehicles, he has also used his patents to negotiate faster growth in his market.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

At Cheezburger, we just added Scott Moore to the leadership team. Ben Huh, the founder/CEO who I adore and love working with, send out a powerful email about how he’s approaching Cheezburger’s next stage of growth, and how he’s thinking about building the business operating system. It’s perfect timing for us.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

As soon as you start pulling together your first leadership team, you’ll be making big decisions about how to push your business to the next level and will be relying on others to share your vision and your passion. You’ll probably have limited resources —and you may have limited experience—which means it’s crucial to make each hire count.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. At first many start-ups hire a lobbying firm. Strategy and Operations roles: These roles help make sure vision, resources (budgets and people), and the market opportunity are aligned. They can vote to hire and fire the CEO. Below is the second of her three-part series.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

It enables businesses to improve operational efficiency and productivity, eventually making a positive contribution to their growth. Whether you are trying to establish a business from scratch or want to keep operations on track of existing business, time management is crucial. Leadership Skills. Time Management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Since employees have been working remotely, organizations have seen a significant increase in productivity and communication, making employers more open toward hiring or partnering with people that are located throughout the US and all over the world. It’s a win-win. Employees clearly want and enjoy the flexibility. Cost Savings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2019

Every leading position in business requires demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Here’s how entrepreneurs and business owners lead their teams; #1- Servant leadership. As a leader, I operate with a servant leadership mentality, and I expect the same of the other leaders within my company.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2012

by Mike Staver, author of “ Leadership Isn’t For Cowards: How to Drive Performance by Challenging People and Confronting Problems ” It’s a tricky time to be a leader. You don’t have to be an out-and-out coward to let fear impact your leadership. By definition, all leaders “mess with people’s lives.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You hire great people. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. Leadership is actually quite difficult. Do you hire more sales people?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

An advisory board has no official role in managing – they can’t hire, fire, or order people to do things. Technology and innovation: Given finite budgets, how best to evaluate, choose, and scale a plethora of new technologies and new operational concepts? What issues require educating Congress and DOD leadership?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2019

Set clear standards and expectations during team meetings, and set a personal example through your own leadership behavior. Inconsistent messages from top leadership. Your solution is to make sure every group is pursuing the same objectives and strategy, implement consistent measurements, and make leadership changes as required.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Not only were profits reduced, and businesses were forced to diversify in order to survive, but the way businesses operate has been forced to change. . Hire Strategically. Research has shown that companies lost on average $14,900 on every bad hire. Invest in Leadership Training. Embrace Digital Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Operate with a comparable level of integrity. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. All partners have compatible work styles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. Greg is part of our executive leadership team and already helps run the firm.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. Back to Podcast. Transcript. I really appreciate it.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start. Pick one section each week.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. Managing to Win.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

Personal assistants are often hired to prepare decisions and information for managers and take care of miscellaneous tasks for busy executives and CEOs — who all earn higher incomes. Alternatively, individual VA contractors can be hired for a monthly salary, or workers for short gigs can be found via Fiverr or TaskRabbit.

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SVPG

JUNE 27, 2015

I would argue that two of the most importance competencies in building great product organizations, indeed nearly any significant organizational undertaking, are leadership and management. There may be no better place in the US to truly learn leadership and management (in the senses discussed below) than this institution.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

of businesses fail within the first five years of operation. For instance, if you operate in the hospitality industry, keeping up with the latest food and drink trends can help attract more customers and lead to growth. Hire dependable managers It’s no secret that the performance of a team is a reflection of its leadership.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 17, 2024

Fall elections, continuing shifts in hybrid work and hiring, tumultuous financial markets — these factors and more will impact what mission-driven organizations can accomplish in the current year and beyond. But board and leadership recruitment and engagement were what these leaders wanted to talk about.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

We asked 12 founders from the YEC to share with us when they knew it was time to hire a manager (or a few managers) to oversee the day-to-day activities of their business. We hired more people to help and this freed us to focus on those strategic relationships. – Andrew Thomas, SkyBell Video Doorbell. When you feel overwhelmed.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities). Hiring the wrong member of staff can lead to disappointed customers, a smaller profit margin and a lack of efficiency.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

With today’s fast-paced business environment and a very competitive market, you need to have charismatic leadership, strong motivation, technical skills, passion, and commitment to ace the industry. If you are a start-up company, you might be thinking, “Do I need to hire a coach?” Leadership? Team building?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2020

Solid leadership of a remote team is vital to the success of work-from-home efforts. Here are a few leadership tips for managing a remote team: Trust your people. You hired them and you know what they can do. Hire those who will be good at working remotely. Over nearly two decades of experience running three companies ?

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

It does mean that when we’re designing new programs, or hiring people to help us redesign processes, that we ask a lot of questions. Let’s scrutinize our practices, from hiring to promotion, to ensure fairness and inclusivity at every step. That’s not an argument for slowing down. Luckily that’s what boards do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Benefits of Hiring a Fractional CMO If you’re a business owner, the thought of hiring a full-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) may have crossed your mind. Cost-Effectiveness of Hiring A Fractional CMO The cost difference between hiring a full-time and fractional CMO is staggering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. A great hire can make a company, but a single bad one can break it. " Provide effective leadership. Remember that leadership is both upward, as well as downward to direct reports and employees.

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