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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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Boards and organizational leaders who are serious about meeting DE&I goals also establish metrics and measurement processes to ensure that successes and challenges are tracked and reported. In other words, DE&I policies and practices must include metrics to gauge the success of those goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Cause organizational whiplash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Cause organizational whiplash.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2024

How to Hire a Fractional CMO: The Smart Way to Scale written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Are you looking at your business goals and feeling your marketing strategy just isn’t cutting it? This is where hiring a fractional CMO can make a significant difference. When should I hire a fractional CMO?

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Hiring Leadership Differentiation Cost 75

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Metrics are used to manage process rather than creation of new capabilities, outcomes and speed to deployment. This typically plays out in three ways: Often the first plan from leadership for innovation is hiring management consultants who bring out their 20th-century playbook. The consultants reorganize the company (surprise!),

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Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

A growing number of people are deciding where to put their time, money and energy based not only on the goals of a nonprofit, but also its commitment to environmental sustainability, leadership, employee diversity and other social responsibility issues. An organization with a social justice mission only has white men in leadership positions.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

It does mean that when we’re designing new programs, or hiring people to help us redesign processes, that we ask a lot of questions. Measuring DE&I progress Use tools and metrics. “To Let’s scrutinize our practices, from hiring to promotion, to ensure fairness and inclusivity at every step.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 18, 2023

They show how an organization behaves in terms of sustainability and social conscience, covering environmental impact, diversity and inclusion, and finances, with a focus on leadership. ESG Requires Scrutiny The practice of ESG means scrutiny on your own internal procedures: Are you hiring with diversity in mind?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Post 1 of 4 in the series of Scaling CPO’s) In most startups, the HR function starts out as tactical, because you have to get people hired and paid, and while you might have a founder or early-stage employee who can do these things, often these tasks are frequently outsourced to a PEO. What’s the right amount of time?

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For most startups the idea of hiring a CBDO is a pipedream, it’s a role that only global corporations have, right? So how do you know when it’s time to hire your first CBDO? You know it’s time to hire a CBDO when you are spending too much of your own time on things that a CBDO could be doing.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2017

by Brent Proulx, Talent Plus Leadership and Management Consultant. Hire people for whom this work is a calling. Truth be told, if you hire people for whom their work is a calling or who are on a mission to do great things, engagement in the work comes naturally. Selection, Onboarding and Promotions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Hire more help than helpers. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Separate management from leadership, and provide both.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

One of the greatest ways to do so is hiring a CMO or Chief Marketing Officer, an experienced, result-driven executive responsible for all your marketing efforts. But if we focus on strategy and implementation, the choices you’ll come across are hiring a marketing agency, a marketing coach, a marketing consultant, or a fractional CMO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Most new businesses need three to five advisors or board members to regularly evaluate progress and resource needs, as well as your own leadership. Put operational systems and metrics in place early. Also take the time to get feedback on your own leadership and work on the culture. This is not a place for friends and family.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. They keep waiting for top management to somehow fix the situation.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2021

Provide the right leadership. You might have great business acumen but cannot provide leadership. Take advantage of training opportunities on leadership and team management. Take advantage of training opportunities on leadership and team management. Start by hiring the right people for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Through cost-cutting and highly-specialized hiring, firms unintentionally weed out the capacity to innovate and adapt to change. Focus on data-driven leadership versus passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, I believe the majority of true entrepreneurs are not interested in this new role, and jump ship quickly by hiring an experienced CEO or merging with another company, to start their next entrepreneurial effort. That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 17, 2021

I also love figuring out where a founder is going and what their north star metric could be, both now and in the future. His unique insight into shift workers is that if you can align the incentive structures, minimize turnover, and help with hiring – you are vastly more interesting to merchants than any tool or service out there.

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Transformify

JULY 24, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. What does diversity hiring mean to you? Our guest today is Sunita Cherian, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Wipro.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Cause organizational whiplash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Great people leadership and communication skills are critical here, as well as managing an organization. Some people are very good as defining metrics, roll-out programs, and reward systems for marketing and sales programs. Rallying the team also requires that they be rewarded for progress and success.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. However, there are challenges when employing this leadership team development approach. Leaders can use the following metrics to measure team health. Cycle time of tasks.

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Berkonomics

JULY 15, 2021

The first professional senior manager that an entrepreneur hires to share the growing workload does not last more than a year. Entrepreneurs start businesses with a strong vision of what and how , involved in every process from buying supplies to hiring and directly supervising early employees. What is the common problem?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Cause organizational whiplash.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Bandwidth Matching Leadership 120

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Number One Leadership Skill – crowdspring.co/1CKROUS. Hire the Right Type of VP Marketing ?Or What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

Business leadership and success must be built on trust, so never jeopardize your image. Hire the best, and provide necessary training and tools. Too many busy business leaders I know take shortcuts in hiring, looking for a quick fill, assuming new employees can learn on the job, with minimal training and old tools.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available. In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As startups scale, they are likely to hire a more senior accountant, maybe an AR/AP/Collections staff member, or even a Controller or VP Finance. Another sign that you need to hire a full-time CFO comes in the form of things you can’t answer. Sometimes a founder or a founder’s spouse even steps in on this front.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Hire People Who Make Things Happen – crowdspring.co/1fMczta. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Through cost-cutting and highly-specialized hiring, firms unintentionally weed out the capacity to innovate and adapt to change. Focus on data-driven leadership versus passion.

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