Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key principles of agility that are required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. Where do you see your fit in this leadership transformation ? Let collaborative leadership mitigate individual biases.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects. Manage Agency Growth to Expand at a Proper Rate.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In the very early days of any startup, the matters of company strategy , structure, culture and leadership are rarely formally addressed. Most people are already familiar with agile principles to some extent, but just in case let’s go over the basics. Improved adaptability. Putting the product/service on the market early.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success. Adaptability plays a crucial role in the strategy and management of your company. When it comes to people management, it is important to customize your approach to each individual.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

What had previously been a strength – their great management processes – now holds back their ability to respond to new challenges. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A big part of adopting Lean Startup in an established company involves fundamentally shifting the way organizations manage people and ideas. Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. Risk Management Tools. The department launched a pilot program with commercial risk management tools. Now, I think of this as we think of ISO quality.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

But to get to the finish line successfully, there are several key company milestones that leadership must identify and address. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

They keep waiting for top management to somehow fix the situation. In reality, I believe that building and sustaining a winning culture is everyone’s business, not just that of top management. I was particularly impressed with his key recommendations for overcoming change roadblocks: Lukewarm leadership buy-in to a culture revamp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Through cost-cutting and highly-specialized hiring, firms unintentionally weed out the capacity to innovate and adapt to change. Penalties for management learning experiences. Focus on data-driven leadership versus passion.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. As a result of the pandemic, not everyone has managed to hold onto their work. It's important to keep business agile. 19- Hiring people for exponential growth.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. It is a very different skill than science, engineering, or management. Where Did We Go Wrong?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2021

Unfortunately, the reality is that not everyone has that mindset, and one of your toughest jobs is to find the right hires to make your business a success. They have the specialized skills you hired them for, and are usually much closer to all the details and ramifications. Pay special attention to people who show leadership.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

In it Shackleton defined courage and leadership. The Energy Storage division is acting like a startup, and Prescott Logan its General Manager, has lived up to the charter. GE’s performance in implementing Customer Development gives lie to the tale that only web startups can be agile. You couldn’t be more wrong.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Balance is fundamental to building a healthy community and managing the challenges that come our way. We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. 8-Stay agile. 1- Balance is key. Photo Credit: Calista Redmond.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

According to the Society for Human Resource Management, workforce planning is “the process an organization uses to analyze its workforce and determine the steps it must take to meet current and future staffing needs. Succession management. What Is a Workforce Planning Model? Employee development. Knowledge transfer. Make Future Plans.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

While we all solve problems, managers and consultants are professionals — they’re hired and paid to do so. Iconoclastic management scholar Henry Mintzberg, one of the first to study what managers do, found they spend much of their time solving problems. He is the co-author of “ Cracked it!:

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Through cost-cutting and highly-specialized hiring, firms unintentionally weed out the capacity to innovate and adapt to change. Penalties for management learning experiences. Focus on data-driven leadership versus passion.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. And that experience is the responsibility of the CEO and leadership team which can be very well avoided by changing the perspective of the executives. Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios ! #4-

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. And that experience is the responsibility of the CEO and leadership team which can be very well avoided by changing the perspective of the executives. Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios ! #4-

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. It doesn’t, however, change the fact that firewalls are still only perimeter protection devices and are limited to applying security policies against visible packets that travel through them.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2018

However, organizational leadership is a key skill that every entrepreneur needs to manage a successful company that grows over time. If you are interested in leading a company, then consider studying organizational leadership. What Is Organizational Leadership? However, simply hiring more people is not enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Priorities must include both those for today and tomorrow, and the changes you are targeting to maintain business leadership from tomorrow through the future. This may require hiring new people, expanding skillsets, and providing coaching to get the high degree of creativity often required. Provide resources to implement initiatives.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. When to make your first analytics hire. So when should you start thinking about your first analytics hire? What to look for in your first analytics hire.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With Nicole’s first-hand experiences and insights, we explored how this Fractional CMO trend is not just a fleeting fad but a strategic maneuver that’s reshaping the contours of business leadership in today’s dynamic landscape. How would you briefly describe this role to someone unfamiliar with it? [14:11]

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Hire for hustle. A great way to separate the entrepreneurial thinkers from those who aren’t is to place a special emphasis on hiring people with a sense of urgency; people who can and will move quickly; people who don’t always have to be told what their next step should be. But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

With so many organizations rethinking strategies and shifting business models, it’s important to be agile in the way talent is thought about and managed. When it comes to leading an effective team, emphasis must be put on two things, understanding how to manage (1) different tasks and (2) different people.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The main way I’ve seen this happen is that your tech company grows and gets some traction and gets some serious funding, and the company wants to hire some “big guns” to come in and take this company to the next level. The only part that would be considered Agile would be at the tail end of build, test and release.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

Hiring is a minefield for startups, but with the right approach, you can recruit top talent. Slack), and know the policies for communicating on email and project management systems. According to studies, 90 percent of failed small businesses closed their doors due to poor cash flow management. A lack of innovation and agility.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Big companies have great execution habits to manage and improve successful business models and value propositions. This happens because managing the present often takes oxygen away from inventing the future. The latter requires speed and agility. Alexander and I often collaborate on new ideas for corporate innovation.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Hire Resourceful People. Hiring the best people for the job means that their productivity will skyrocket. Hiring smarter people means respecting their different skill sets. Combining your leadership skills with brainpower means that your company will be set up for prosperity. Leadership Ability. Problem-Solving.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Contingent labor began seeing a decrease in hiring in February 2020. Full-time employee (FTE) hiring (measured by the unemployment rate) began to decrease a month later in March 2020. Contingent labor had its deepest drop in hiring in May, dropping by 44% year-over-year. FTE Hiring Slower to Recover. in March to 14.7%

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

But ATA staffer and Paper Census project manager Sarah Ortiz Shields emphasizes the importance of starting in-house. Getting the blessing of department heads and other leadership gives staff freedom to participate fully in the process. You may well have the perfect project manager in your contact list already? That’s okay.

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