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7 Keys To Making You A Team Leader And Future Manager

Startup Professionals Musings

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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When Should a Small Business Hire an Executive Team?

Up and Running

As you find your footing and begin to scale, you might feel ready to hire a formal executive team. What’s right for one company may not make sense for another, but the goal is always the same — to hire talent that will ultimately help the business thrive. When is the right time to hire an executive team?

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

Only one component of running a business is managing technology, but it is a critical component, so no entrepreneur can afford to ignore it or totally delegate it. That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team.

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7 Tough Leadership Challenges Gauge Your CEO Ability

Startup Professionals Musings

CEOs who make this happen start by hiring the right people, communicating a strategy, and being the role model for collaboration. Provide leadership to drive a transformation. Manage the conflicting demands of leadership. There is no more dangerous position in business than clinging to the status quo.

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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago I shared some important leadership lessons from Stewart Butterfield , including investing in your own growth to make sure that the founder scales as fast as the company. First – choose your path: do you really want to transition into a manager? . How to grow into the role of manager.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building? She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership, So why now?

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

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.