Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. What does this mean for their early stage investors? Weak revenue architecture poses the greatest near-term risk of failure for most early stage startups.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

It seems like having a good combination of certain hard and soft skills is crucial for building a business and ensuring its operations are viable and sustainable. Running a business will likely mean simultaneously juggling between different projects, especially during the early stages. Leadership skills. Project planning.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

by Norman McBrien, co-founder and Head of Operations of GoConqr. The small details in the day to day are the ones that make the difference between a great boss and a mediocre one, so it’s advisable to be surrounded by the best resources and to absorb all the advice you can to try to improve your leadership capacities.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. What does this mean for their early stage investors? Weak revenue architecture poses the greatest near-term risk of failure for most early stage startups.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

With the unforeseeable end of COVID-19, we have to find sustainable solutions to challenges like working remotely, operating under a crunched budget, and dealing with more work and remote teams. However, as soon as the question or request is out of the ordinary, or requires more complex work, we are left to ourselves to figure it out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2019

I’ve summarized their basic principles here, in the context of early-stage entrepreneurs and startups, in the hope of providing a head start, and fewer mistakes to recover from, for every entrepreneur: Broaden your perspective for your passion, to the greater good. Strive to create your own authentic path to wise leadership.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Experienced leadership, well-funded, and hiring in engineering, product and operations. Salonpas patches for back pain because I’m old, Andytown coffee and this GQ article about a band of watch thieves. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Orum is a NYC-based financial technology company that makes money move fast.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

They aren’t operating on big bankrolls of venture capital (at least initially), and they don’t have trust funds to fall back on if the business fails. As a self-directed business owner, you have full control over what the business does next as well as how it operates and how it grows. If they don’t come through, who will?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It is my privilege to work with the next generation’s best and brightest in the early stages of their careers. Billy Bosworth is the CEO of DataStax ; he leads the company’s global strategy and direction, and oversees day-to-day operations. Leadership vs. Authority. ” Types of Leadership.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Companies like Warehouse Now have developed digital platforms leveraging AI to help warehousing and supply chain businesses streamline their capital-expenditure (capex) intensive, highly underutilized real estate warehouse assets to operational expenditure (opex) based, just-in-time, highly efficient supply chain management assets.

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

But the courage and leadership I am witnessing each day is inspiring. Trying to be transparent has always been a core value of NextView, and we hope that this will help founders and our co-investors better understand how we intend to operate in the early stage ecosystem in the next several years. . This is scary.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. Most people understand that COOs support and collaborate with a startup’s CEO in a number of ways, including decision-making, internal and external leadership, and idea generation. Based on what criteria?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. From there you need to hone a whole set of skills to survive and prosper, including effective communication, leadership under pressure, and constant adaptation to change. That’s where you start.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Most often I'm being brought in the early stage, Start-up or Expansion (as the company looks at new product lines). My focus in this post is on the Early and Start-up stages - expansion is more of a consulting, focused project role and it acts different. Roger Smith ) This helps explain where I normally play.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2014

I’ve summarized their basic principles here, in the context of early-stage entrepreneurs and startups, in the hope of providing a head start, and fewer mistakes to recover from, for every entrepreneur: Broaden your perspective for your passion, to the greater good. Strive to create your own authentic path to wise leadership.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2017

I’ve summarized their basic principles here, in the context of early-stage entrepreneurs and startups, in the hope of providing a head start, and fewer mistakes to recover from, for every entrepreneur: Broaden your perspective for your passion, to the greater good. Strive to create your own authentic path to wise leadership.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. Use Cases/ Concept of Operations. An Innovation Process and Pipeline. Internal projects already in existence. Legal issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Separate management from leadership, and provide both.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. This behavior can manifest as a lack of innovation, limited effort in business development, or neglect of critical operational responsibilities. Thanks to Amie Devero, Beyond Better ! #7-

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. This behavior can manifest as a lack of innovation, limited effort in business development, or neglect of critical operational responsibilities. Thanks to Amie Devero, Beyond Better ! #7-

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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. Founders and entrepreneurial employees prefer operating in a chaotic environment with multiple unknowns.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Oliver, author of “ Mantra Design ” and “ Mantra Leadership “ Successful businesses are not a result of chance, but are the by-product of an effective and evolving strategic plan, complimented by an equally effective operating infrastructure, and supported by exceptional human talent. Think 1 to 3.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Billions of dollars are being poured into companies that have yet to clear the value chasm, as entrepreneurs use early traction that isn’t necessarily financially-oriented, but shows a certain level of uptick or success, to raise capital and convince early stage investors that their horse is the one to bet on.

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

Any company that aspires to maintain a leadership position needs to position itself to exploit these two macro trends. HBSAANY is comprised of New York City tri-state area Harvard alumni who are venture capitalists and other accredited investors investing in early-stage, private companies around the United States.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After many years in business, I’m convinced that none of us has the strengths and interest in all the areas needed for success, including solution changes, finance, marketing, and operations. Great people leadership and communication skills are critical here, as well as managing an organization.

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Metrics Early Stage Finance Programming 272

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. In the early days of selling it can sometimes be an advantage to not have rigid pricing schedules, complex service level agreements (SLAs), hard-and-fast rate limits, etc. A’s, B’s & C’s.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

Smarter operations: big data analytics, robotic processes and smart contracting to optimise business operations. Future cargo logistics: shipping analytics, asset tracking, and measurement and monitoring tools to optimise cargo operations. Access to world class subject matter experts across all IAG operating companies.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

If followed, we believe it can help startup teams navigate the critical early stages of development – and avoid joining a majority of early stage companies that end up on the entrepreneurial scrap heap. Read on to discover why successfully traversing the Traction Gap is critical to early stage companies.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Despite all these advantages, it seems that the foreign investors are still reluctant to invest in seed and early stage projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The market seemed crowded and our leadership position that had been built over many years seemed to not matter any more. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. These companies will grab massive market share as others fall behind. Many “me, too&# companies will perish.

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View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

All of them were in the process of re-founding or were already operating their next startup. However, it is important to consider the potential of failure in the early stages of building. I spoke with five founders who had raised a median of $4.9M and a total of $70M for ventures that met the criteria outlined above.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll likely organize a Harvard Business School Angels of NY event on this topic in 2012. - Studying best practices of VCs in supporting portfolio company operational improvement. I am now leading a Columbia MBA team (ex-Mckinsey and BCG) on a study regarding best practices of VCs in supporting portfolio company operational improvement.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Heather is an outspoken advocate for women in tech leadership roles and building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

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