Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In that context, I was pleased to see the supporting message in a recent book, “ Fearless Innovation: Going Beyond the Buzzword ,” by Alex Goryachev. Be sure to hire and cultivate new talent with the right mindset. In addition to spreading the word internally, you need to create a dialogue externally with partners and customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. One of the biggest mistakes I see early-stage startups making is hiring “seasoned&# sales professionals or hiring people too senior, too early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2021

I seem to see common threads in the stories from people who don’t get money, so I checked my list against ones quoted in the classic book by Barry H. The key here is to create a win-win partner situation for your investors. The resources are out there to help you, like the book mentioned, this blog, and many more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2022

They don’t realize that it takes more to succeed in business or a career – it takes leadership skills to get people to follow you, including peers, a team, business partners, and customers. I urge you to force yourself to be a regular new learner, by tackling new problems, listening to expert mentors, and finding time for leadership books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Don’t forget recognition for accomplishment and efforts.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A bond between a founder and investor is a commitment for a long term relationship – that’s why it is important to have the right partners on your side. Choose a partner, not just a fund. So choose your partner wisely. . “Founder-investor fit is crucial for a company’s success. Personal fit.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 1, 2014

Book Short: Culture is King. is ostensibly a book about one thing — culture — but is also full of good general advice for CEOs and senior managers. Interestingly on this comparison, Sheridan has a simple and elegant argument against working remotely in the middle of the book around innovation and collaboration.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

As I was reminded again by the classic book from Dennis Perkins, “ Leading at the Edge ,” this isn’t a new concept. Then it extends to the hiring process. These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The book Regulatory Hacking calls this diagram the Power Map. The books The Fixer and Regulatory Hacking give examples of regulatory pitfalls, problems and suggested solutions.) Hire/advisors from the inside industry but use them to make you smarter not just to outsource the work. Get outside advice at each step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

What every entrepreneur needs more than anything else, after they have built an innovative new product or service, is visibility, credibility, and trust by customers, potential employees, and future business partners. Key value elements of a good book include the following: Publishing a book defines you as an influencer and authority.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. Some firms hire pure investors, some firms hire operators, some Wall Street analysts, some firms hire sales people, some firms hire lawyers, and others hire reporters.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 25, 2014

Book Short: Culture is King. is ostensibly a book about one thing — culture — but is also full of good general advice for CEOs and senior managers. Interestingly on this comparison, Sheridan has a simple and elegant argument against working remotely in the middle of the book around innovation and collaboration.).

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OnlyOnce

MAY 25, 2023

The best part about the book as it relates to ALL boards is the framework of Partner, Take Charge, Stay out of the Way, and Monitor. There was an interesting nugget in the book as well called the Central Idea that I hadn’t seen articulated quite this way before. All in, a good read if you’re a student of Boards.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

With a concentration on providing a more diverse workforce, Capital Factory and Opportunity Hub are partnering in 2019 to converge on the Austin tech scene this spring at SXSW. Prior to OHUB, Sampson built and sold two tech companies and published four books, including the best selling Kingonomics.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

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. <#1- Read 12 books. I enjoy reading so much, whether it's fiction, poetry or personal development books. 18- Read at least one book per week. 13- Focus on growth.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Jonathan Siddharth . David Zhang.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Bill Higgs, author of the upcoming book “Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale & Succeed in Your Business”. Smart hiring practices make a difference. It’s possible to take a new hire and train them to fit into your corporate culture, but it’s even better to hire people who are a good fit to begin with.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Book of Five Rings. The emphasis on the rapid development and iteration of MVP’s is to speed up how fast you can learn ; from customers, partners, network scale, adoption, etc. And that he could identify the resources needed, (outsourced contract developers who could build it for him) and he would hire a partner to do so.

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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. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. Thanks to Sean Kelly, Book Retreats.com ! #9-

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Diving into the financials, dealing with vendors, the hiring process, or a variety of other tasks—no one is passionate about every facet of business operations. Find the right partners. So, you need to find mentors, partners, and employees who are. Just to be clear, maintaining clean books is the baseline.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

I enjoy reading books written by people I know. I can always picture the person narrating the book, or hear their voice saying the words, I can periodically see their personality showing through the words on the page, and books bring out so much more detail than I’d ever get from a conversation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I just finished a new book, “ Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business Without Selling Your Soul ,” by Jenny Kassan, who has been in the business for over 20 years as an attorney and fund raiser. The basic categories include equity, straight debt, convertible debt, services, and agreements for future equity.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

Whether it is about an app for health and fitness that helps out to achieve fitness goals or an on-demand taxi booking app like Uber, there’s an application for everything to get things easier for daily lives. Select The Right Technology Partner or Hire a Developer. Choose The Right Monetization Strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, when Brian and Dharmesh were actually creating it and wrote the book Inbound Marketing, that's when Duct Tape Marketing was really around and I had a lot of conversations with them early on. I should have gotten on the partner train. I started the agency partner program that you passed on and built that up.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A hire or two that you should have been able to close won’t join. You’re spending much of your time selling: the vision to employees, the opportunity to investors, the story to the press, the offering to the customers, the relationship to partners. His book, Delivering Happiness , is wonderful. How does this harm occur?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

Mike is the author of ‘Get Different’, ‘Fix This Next’, ‘Clockwork’, ‘Profit First’, ‘The Pumpkin Plan’ and ‘The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’ His books have been translated into 10 languages. Mike is also the founder of Profit First Professionals. Clockwork.life.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

We have partnerships with a large number of lawn care companies and professionals which we then connect our customers with, and we want to start focusing on partnering with companies/professionals that use more environmentally-friendly tools. 3- Hiring underprivileged people. 8- By equitable hiring practice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Do you collaborate with a team or partners? [06:14] In your experience, do you often work with companies lacking strategic hires, and do you assist in team building? Because you can, do you have a team of implementers or if somebody does need more than say you personally can provide, do you bring in partners? That's right.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Highlight the ways you will protect and keep your customers’ information secure for example, using tools such as secure online booking and customer management software that will keep your data protected and your business safe. Products and services. At the core of your business is the products and services you offer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

If you are not starting one yourself, the next best thing is joining one as a partner, or as an early employee. This will help you to become an opportunity magnet -- poised to attract, interview and "hire" your next employer. It takes much the same preparation to make you the best entrepreneur, or the best job candidate.

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