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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose. Great leaders are doers.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business.

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Millennial CEO Disrupts Bottled Water Industry

Hearpreneur

When live in Hawaii and you don’t stay at a resort, you can’t help but ignore the unemployment and poverty in some areas that is directly relevant to education. Tell us about your business and what you do. . . What advice would you give to aspiring millennial entrepreneurs? . Elon Musk for President haha . .

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Select investors: Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Slow Ventures, Maveron, Tiger Global Management. Walmart’s $3.3B Disclosed funding: $27.4M.

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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Silicon Valley Uber Alles? I think so… Some of their Secret Weapons.

Scalable Startup

The public tagline is everybody has a high IQ, but in reality there are lots of dwebes running around – I know, I’ve managed plenty of them. SVs leaders smartly realize the win ratio can be pretty low if you have a few enormous winners. They have all the pieces and they are heavily connected to Silicon Valley without envying them.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Tina Fitch , co-founder of Hobnob , an app that lets users send and manage event invitations via text message. Tina Fitch. Alice Brooks.

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