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CEO Kryptonite - What Savvy Company Leaders Avoid At All Costs

YoungUpstarts

Executives should not be afraid to over-communicate the same message multiple times; providing the same information via different channels increases the likelihood that employees will actually remember what you tell them. THE CEO’S JOB DESCRIPTION IS. WHAT CAN’T BE DELEGATED. Jim is the author of Great to Excellent; It’s the Execution!

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. I documented my struggle on my YouTube channel, which now garners over 70M views. This was with the companies who wanted to hire them.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years. So if you do find your duplicate, hire them as soon as possible.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

Steve Blank

What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). We said, “Well, we’re going to hire our first employee, and you know what?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . Silicon Valley) is a network-based system — about who you know … who gets funded, how teams are forms, who gets hired in certain companies, how promotions (are determined) — that is all relationship-based.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”. And they channel all this into whatever activity they can find outside of their home – sports, business, or …entrepreneurship. Did we just hear this right? Lessons Learned.

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