Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

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. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Cause organizational whiplash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hire more help than helpers. You don’t have the bandwidth to keep filling positions with more helpers. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Keep delivering something new and fresh.

Mezzanine 244

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 244

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Hire more help than helpers. You don’t have the bandwidth to keep filling positions with more helpers. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Keep delivering something new and fresh.

Mezzanine 141

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Hire more help than helpers. You don’t have the bandwidth to keep filling positions with more helpers. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Keep delivering something new and fresh.

Mezzanine 240

Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

Startup 287

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). And, short term, that may be the only option.

Marketing 121

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Board Effect

MARCH 4, 2024

However, most nonprofits or charities are not in the financial position to hire DE&I directors and staff to manage this reporting. It’s important for everyone in your organization – the board, leadership, and employees – to understand what you want to accomplish with your DE&I initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

Startup 424

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Hire more help than helpers. You don’t have the bandwidth to keep filling positions with more helpers. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Keep delivering something new and fresh.

Mezzanine 120

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2011

Angela has been a big part of both hiring many of the people and orchestrating the culture of the company so I very much value her point of view on interviewing. Are you interviewing someone for a tech leadership role who doesn’t have a skype account? I invested in Return Path eleven years ago at the very beginning of its life.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2017

You need to hire great people, and that requires: Knowing the skillsets your company requires. Establishing a rigorous, world-class hiring process – from the initial job description through interviewing of candidates through hiring. Hiring is the most important specific thing you do. Hiring is expensive.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . I do recognize that two years from now, all the top VCs may be on TikTok, but I just can’t justify the time required to take a leadership position on these platforms which are not yet heavily used for B2B purposes. . Hootsuite. I’m not active there.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 28, 2020

People in leadership roles can set the tone by communicating effectively with all team members. Startups and SMBs do not have the bandwidth to accommodate highly-flexible leave policies. Here in this post, we will discuss seven important HR lessons while responding to COVID-19. Build Confidence and Provide Direction to Employees.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 4, 2013

When governments go through leadership changes, it is generally expected that their whole staff gets replaced. When a new CEO for a company is hired, you might change out a few people, but you wouldn''t replace all the key folks. You wouldn''t hire a new GM and just immediately get rid of your All-Star players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

Bandwidth 262

Bandwidth Distribution Agile Social Media 262

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Jennifer Brown: I have a lot of problem solving energy and sort of bandwidth to dedicate and not just that I want to dedicate it because I feel comfortable and valued and seen. I honestly think that people have hired and referred for jobs, people from their networks. I hire based on resume or experience.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most startups don’t have the luxury of hiring an experienced PM early in their journey. So, what are the things founders can learn to do well BEFORE they can hire a great first product hire to make sure the company stays focused and iterates fast? Post-PMF: Key milestones the business needs to hit (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2016

A single visionary entrepreneur almost always is the initial implementer of an innovative new venture, but that lone entrepreneur doesn’t have the bandwidth to grow the business alone. Some will argue that people leadership is a skill you have to be born with, but I’m convinced that it can be learned from experience, mentoring, and failures.

Leadership 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

Startup 120

Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2022

Kimberly is a career and leadership development expert a speaker and podcast host whose mission is to empower women and people of color in the workplace. 8:02] It’s become pretty popular in leadership circles to talk about coaching as a skill of a leader, how would you distinguish between mentoring and coaching? [9:26]

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Social Media eCommerce Connecticut Leadership 75

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Founded in 2016, Bottleneck is an outsourcing agency that helps businesses identify, hire, and cultivate their workforce through a carefully designed systematic approach to growth. We dive into how building a solid culture and hiring the right people is extremely crucial to achieving success in your company. I practice what I preach.

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