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Chief People Officer Pitfall for Later Stage CEOs

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A number of later stage CEOs I mentor have come to me over the years when they have a sub-par Chief People Officer and said something like “I’m going to put HR under my CFO.” The post Chief People Officer Pitfall for Later Stage CEOs appeared first on The Startup CEO blog. Or it’s you.

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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Top 3 Mistakes Later Stage Founders Make

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Last week , I blogged a podcast riff I did about the biggest mistakes early stage founders make and what to do about them. Here’s a summary of part 2 of what I said about later stage founders. I’m sure there are so many other top mistakes for later stage CEOs/founders. Cultures are truly hard to scale.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

That said, we definitely don’t bank on this as a firm, even though we do see ourselves playing a multi-turn game with all of our later stage coinvestors. Or was this a convenient justification to get into the business, only to raise bigger and bigger funds and move upstream later?

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

When you look at the websites of the seed VC’s on the 2019 list, you notice that some are starting to steer away from positioning themselves as Seed funds as they accumulate more capital and are starting to enter companies at later stages. In 2009 Bessemer had the most Midas List partners with 6 investors.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. We knew he had to be an investment partner. We settled on Venture Partner as is now being reported and also picked up here.

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