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. Of course, full trust must be earned, but it is critical to do some due diligence before hiring new team members, or establishing partnerships. You need to divide and conquer.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Abraham Gin, an entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Gin Consulting Group , which provides unique leadership development and training platforms. Abraham serves his clients with both forward-looking business growth strategy and digital marketing through leadership applications partners. What problems does it solve?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. A great hire can make a company, but a single bad one can break it. Provide effective leadership. Remember that leadership is both upward, as well as downward to direct reports and employees. Most founders are product guys.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2022

How To Build Great Leadership Teams written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jack McGuinness. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jack McGuinness. Key Takeaway: Leadership teams have an enormous impact on their organizations. Like this show?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Afterall, I hired them for their expertise and not simply to follow a set of instructions every day. I would describe my leadership style as individualized, and balanced. Thanks to Jordan Fuller, Perfect Captain ! #3-

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

Good partners are people who are confident in their own abilities, and willing and able to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions, and able to provide leadership, rather than require leadership. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. All partners have compatible work styles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It is required today for new innovation strategies, analyzing markets for new opportunities, and organizational changes. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

He outlines a three-phase process to develop the necessary business culture of energy, resilience, and openness: Nurture your current leadership strengths. Learn how to recognize, cultivate, and leverage the competencies of your current talent to develop your leadership team. Hire the right team. Marty Zwilling.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Leveraging a Fractional Marketing Officer for Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Ever felt like you’re racing against the clock, juggling multiple marketing tasks without a moment’s respite? This experienced pro is not your everyday marketer. Interested? Let’s dive in!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2023

I agree with Dr. Ardi’s writing, that most successful workplaces of the future need to adopt the following beta characteristics, and align themselves more with the beta leadership model: Do away with archaic command-and-control models. The best teams are hired with collaboration in mind. Leadership is fluid and bend-able.

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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. Marty Zwilling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jack McGuinness. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jack McGuinness. This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Gusto.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

As part of our Founder interview series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of the SoStereo, a marketing firm that enables brands and artists alike to unlock the marketing power of music. Salo: We help brands unlock the marketing power of music. TSM: Music is an important tool in marketing strategy.

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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. Marty Zwilling.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2022

Why Great Leadership Starts With Open Hearted Conversations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Edward Sullivan. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Edward Sullivan. Take The Marketing Assessment: Marketingassessment.co. Like this show?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Actually, building and nurturing the right team is the hard part, requiring communication, hiring, and leadership. Your leadership skills do not develop without effort. In addition to locking in his leadership position in electric vehicles, he has also used his patents to negotiate faster growth in his market.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

This past year I asked Don Faul to come and speak about Leadership and what he has learned in his career as a Special Forces marine, and senior executive at Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Athos. The following seeks to capture the essence of his conversation with this year’s Fellows: What is Leadership? Becoming a Great Leader.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It is harder to diversify if your first few hires are homogenous, so branch out beyond your typical hiring pool to seek out diversity of all types —race, gender, culture, and education. When you think you’ve found the right hire, do your due diligence to ensure it’s a two-way fit. Look to organizations like i.c.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. When should founders hire one? Or will you be fine with a head of marketing or a controller or a sales lead? Suffice to say, if you’re hiring a COO at your startup, you’re about to make some tough tradeoffs. Based on what criteria?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hire Strategically. Strategic hiring will be crucial for business growth in this and the upcoming year, especially for smaller businesses that might not be able to provide the benefits that larger businesses can. Research has shown that companies lost on average $14,900 on every bad hire. Invest in Leadership Training.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Here are some quick guidelines on what I think it takes to build a sense of leadership: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. Geographic expansion. Efficiency and scale.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. For non-core technical strength, look for outside partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Where do you see your fit in this leadership transformation ? If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. Let collaborative leadership mitigate individual biases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2020

I agree with Dr. Ardi’s writing, that most successful workplaces of the future need to adopt the following beta characteristics, and align themselves more with the beta leadership model: Do away with archaic command-and-control models. The best teams are hired with collaboration in mind. Leadership is fluid and bend-able.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

The Benefits of Hiring A Virtual Assistant For Your Business Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Rob Levin In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Rob Levin. What it is, what it does, and what is its unique place in the market. [04:56]

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

HW: Your role as VP, People combined a number of different responsibilities – some of them more market-facing than the traditional person in your seat. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Developing the ideal product the first time around is unlikely, high risk, and very expensive in today’s chaotic market. Provide outside training opportunities and hiring to promote this culture. Open sharing also increases market acceptance of new products and expedites support infrastructures. First, failure is not always bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2021

The most effective leadership style for today’s workers (Millennials and Boomers) is the democratic participative style, while retaining final say. It all must start with hiring people who are the right fit for your desired culture. After the hire comes mentoring and continuous training as the key to engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Most experts agree that the pace of business change is increasing , and all the business owners I know are struggling to keep up, much less surpass the wealth of global competitors now entering the market. Highlight the competitive edge you bring to the market. Use test marketing to identify changes before scale-up.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Why Email Marketing Is (Still) Important In 2022 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Laura Goldberg. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Laura Goldberg. Laura is the Chief Marketing Officer at Constant Contact. ConstantContact.com.

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