Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency. Focus on talent and people growth. Performance accountability processes.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency. Focus on talent and people growth. Performance accountability processes.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency. Focus on talent and people growth. Performance accountability processes.

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Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

Rob Go

OCTOBER 17, 2011

My partner David wrote a good post on due diligence calls , so I won’t belabor the point here. Both in hiring and in firing. And in a ridiculously competitive environment for talent, agility is a great asset and differentiator.

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Due Diligence Agile Venture Capital Differentiation 48

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. Need to hire others: This communicates they might not be as good as you want or just can’t hack it and solve the initial problem. You might as well hire an outsourced team. Thus, this is not the right co-founder for you.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. It directly affects your ability to sell, to fundraise, to hire the best employees, and to grow. Do your due diligence early and avoid legal and trademark issues further down the road.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Hiring Poorly. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. Not Embracing Agility. "If

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111