The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

They keenly focus on the leadership potential of the entrepreneurs. Led by former Apple project manager Brian Brackeen, Kairos set up an Endeavor-facilitated advisory board. Led by CEO Johanna Mikkola and Co-founder Juha Mikkola, Wyncode has utilized the Endeavor Miami mentors and advisors for access to markets and capital.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Its three co-founders already had deep experience in the nascent AV space, with each of them playing key roles at early leaders in the field.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. He’s also an author of a number of books including — Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. And my board and yeah, my board can fire me.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. They don’t teach this stuff in school and you can’t learn it by reading a book or by listening to a leadership podcast. Thanks to Katie Horgan, Giving Assistant ! #2-

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

That’s why I recommend that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one expert on the technical solution, and the other with business model experience. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Certainly the knowledge and skills required are different.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

We call it our Purpose Playbook, pulled from the four books I’ve written in my Turnaround Leadership Series. Yes, we will be buying businesses and providing a return to our shareholders, but the core idea is to acquire companies and instill in them a sense of Purpose and a new way of operating.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 1, 2017

48in48 Co-founder and Board Chair. I co-founded this organization with Adam Walker in 2015, and next year we’ll put on events in six cities, including London! Advisory Board member of Dagger. Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board Member. Founder of Advice for Good.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. I was determined to read hundreds of leadership and management books in my first two years post Wharton to help me in my journey?—?given

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. A few days later Gordon became a founder. We were going to be guessing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. it isn’t easy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs are typically visionaries and that trait doesn’t always come with natural leadership skills. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Dave Kerpen, co-founder and chairman of Likeable Media, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

To offset this, we have focused on finding investing partners who believe in our vision for TravelSOUL and in us as co-founders to bring that vision to life. For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet. Thanks to Anne C.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

We also have a scientific team, consisting of three chemical engineers in addition to Jan, who is the founder and the inventor. Sometimes a great advisory board can be just as useful. She is an active member of SBAM’s Leadership Council and SBAM’s Leadership Council Advisory Board.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I’d like to add [link] as a community for founders. I am not associated with the company. Reply Dave Jafari , on April 10, 2011 at 10:11 am said: Great list Steve. Reply Faren , on April 11, 2011 at 1:40 am said: Hi Steve, Thanks for adding my ipod, ipad and web wireframe template post to your list. startupcto

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

a leading provider of online veterinary healthcare content and services, announced today that Raul Calvoz has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. PetsMD Inc.,

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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