Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Don’t let one incident, observation, rumor, or misunderstanding cause a rush to judgement, or hiring mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Employees will lose focus on their work.”

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Startup Technical Review Employee Hiring 337

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

Personal assistants are often hired to prepare decisions and information for managers and take care of miscellaneous tasks for busy executives and CEOs — who all earn higher incomes. Alternatively, individual VA contractors can be hired for a monthly salary, or workers for short gigs can be found via Fiverr or TaskRabbit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Employees will lose focus on their work.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If they or you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, it may be time for change or looking elsewhere. Neither partner needs to be managed. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. All partners have compatible work styles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I saw this challenge highlighted well in a new book, “ Leadership Skills that Inspire Incredible Results ,” by Fred Halstead. Even your most loyal and dedicated employees need guidance and direction, and will wait for you to delegate and explain. You can’t afford the delay. Not trusting key team members to get required results.

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Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Founder 241

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Prudent startup leadership should thoroughly discuss with insurance providers the specific scenarios and coverage amounts, ensuring robust protection against multivariable exposure. This policy works to improve fleet management while holding employees accountable for their actions when driving the organization’s vehicles.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

Some people claim ‘culture and employee engagement’ are luxuries you can focus on in good times but during market downturns they should be subjugated to business KPIs. MN: I think where most people go wrong during times of difficulty is to try and shield their employees from the truth — especially when it can feel scary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2020

One of the things I’ve learned in working with aspiring entrepreneurs is that managing and leading a team is a scary venture into the unknown for many people, even if they have worked as a business professional for years. Then when you have to hire people, you will pick the best. Understand both leadership and management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2018

One of the things I’ve learned in working with aspiring entrepreneurs is that managing and leading a team is a scary venture into the unknown for many people, even if they have worked as a business professional for years. Then when you have to hire people, you will pick the best. Understand both leadership and management.

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Management Leadership Demand Founder 218

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2017

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Employees will lose focus on their work.”

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2020

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. My leadership style is a direct reflection of my personality: driven, competitive and compassionate. One of the many blessings of success is the opportunity to ponder my leadership style. Thanks to Lauren Mendoza, Swipecast ! #2-

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Leadership Entrepreneur SEM Employee 106

Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2021

Such include: Lack of enough financial resources Insufficient market demand for the goods and services Having the wrong team on board Inability to keep up with the competition Improper management practices. Our article will explore how to go about setting up business standards to better manage these potential developments.

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Small Business Management Technical Review Employee 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She presents a wealth of case studies on the pain and business losses from this type of leadership and culture, and provides some practical guidance on how to change it to a more psychologically safe and productive workplace. In my experience, leaders who hire helpers rather than real help are breeding this problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

From communication to time management, every business skill has its significance. To set good examples, they need to polish their entrepreneurship skills so that they can influence employees positively. It will help you encourage your employees and get the most out of them. Time Management. Leadership Skills.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Leadership Operations 137

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2016

While poor management has a financial cost, it also has a wider detrimental cost to a business, as well as individuals. Bad leadership can be the result of insufficient training, an inadequate understanding of the business, and weak management skills. Poor leadership is often compounded by poor communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Employees will lose focus on their work.”

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Employee Entrepreneur Technical Review Hiring 244

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Don’t let one incident, observation, rumor, or misunderstanding cause a rush to judgement, or hiring mistake.

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Management Analytics Open Source Hiring 134

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Welcome to the future of work where employees may reside anywhere from Bali to Boston or Barcelona – how can you tap into this global talent pool to create your own successful enterprise with remote workers? As Tony Stark brought unique technological skills to his business, so should your employees. Not everybody has S.H.I.E.L.D

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Technical Review Business Plan America Hiring 110

SVPG

JUNE 27, 2015

I would argue that two of the most importance competencies in building great product organizations, indeed nearly any significant organizational undertaking, are leadership and management. And sadly there are many that have never experienced strong leaders or strong managers. Management gets you to that destination.

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Leadership Management CTO Hire United States 60

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2020

Jeannette Collazo, CEO of Lurdez Consulting Group , which offers IT project management advisory and services. Her belief in the need for educating upcoming IT project managers in better relational skills led to her writing of T.E.A.M.: The IT Project Manager’s Secret Decoder for Increasing Relational Excellence.

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Technical Review Founder Management Technology 158

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. I saw a good summary of these in a classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. Ethics can’t be managed. The reality is different.

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Software Review Offshore Leadership .Net 192

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects. Keep Employees Engaged When on The Bench.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. We have all heard about the successes of flattened management organizations in the last decade at Facebook, Valve, Zappos, and others.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

We asked 12 founders from the YEC to share with us when they knew it was time to hire a manager (or a few managers) to oversee the day-to-day activities of their business. See Also 11 Signs It’s Time to Get Rid of a Key Employee. However, it’s hard to let go. When your days are getting longer.

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Hiring Management Operations Audio 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Entrepreneurial Culture: 23 Ways to Engage and Empower Your Peopl e “ We all know today’s companies need to be more nimble, more innovative, and more entrepreneurial, and that this shift begins with employees. We were able to do so because of their dedicated employees.

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Employee Leadership Technical Review Hiring 208

YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2012

by Mike Staver, author of “ Leadership Isn’t For Cowards: How to Drive Performance by Challenging People and Confronting Problems ” It’s a tricky time to be a leader. You don’t have to be an out-and-out coward to let fear impact your leadership. By definition, all leaders “mess with people’s lives.”

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Many employees’ expectations of a healthy work-life balance and an ethical workplace culture have shifted as a result of the pandemic. Because employee objectives differ greatly, it’s best to poll your team in order to set expectations and develop effective retention strategies. Hire Strategically.

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Social Media Leadership Audience Video 127

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Employees will lose focus on their work.

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Hiring Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 250

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

As soon as you start pulling together your first leadership team, you’ll be making big decisions about how to push your business to the next level and will be relying on others to share your vision and your passion. You’ll probably have limited resources —and you may have limited experience—which means it’s crucial to make each hire count.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2020

Once settling into the stay-at-home orders, large corporations recognized that they may not need expansive office spaces to house their employees to get quality work. It’s been thought that in order to get the best from your employees, they need to be together in a physical space under the watchful eye of a manager.

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Employee Retention Leadership Cost 200

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. Where do you see your fit in this leadership transformation ? Let collaborative leadership mitigate individual biases.

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Leadership Agile Vertical Internet 262

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What you’ll learn Why measuring your DE&I efforts is important How to define DE&I goals and select metrics Establishing transparency and accountability for your DE&I goals Benefits of measuring DEI initiatives As management guru and bestselling author Peter Drucker famously said: “ What gets measured, gets managed.”

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Metrics Equity Software Review Leadership 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

This transformation challenges the leadership of every business owner and raises many fears and concerns from all involved. Create a learning environment by empowering both local and remote employees to make relevant decisions and meet deliverables on their own. Define and share your values and mission, respecting all personal values.

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Leadership Programming Employee Restful 212

Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

I spent years as a manager at a startup company. In my time, I learned a thing or two about the importance of preventing employee turnover. Aside from the time-consuming tasks of screening potential employees, interviewing, and re-hiring , losing and replacing employees is expensive. Hire the right people.

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Employee Startup Salary Hiring 91