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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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

It enables businesses to improve operational efficiency and productivity, eventually making a positive contribution to their growth. Whether you are trying to establish a business from scratch or want to keep operations on track of existing business, time management is crucial. Leadership Skills. Time Management.

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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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. At first many start-ups hire a lobbying firm. Strategy and Operations roles: These roles help make sure vision, resources (budgets and people), and the market opportunity are aligned. They can vote to hire and fire the CEO. Below is the second of her three-part series.

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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. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Since employees have been working remotely, organizations have seen a significant increase in productivity and communication, making employers more open toward hiring or partnering with people that are located throughout the US and all over the world. It’s a win-win. Employees clearly want and enjoy the flexibility. Cost Savings.

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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. 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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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. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You hire great people. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. Leadership is actually quite difficult. Do you hire more sales people?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2019

Set clear standards and expectations during team meetings, and set a personal example through your own leadership behavior. Inconsistent messages from top leadership. Your solution is to make sure every group is pursuing the same objectives and strategy, implement consistent measurements, and make leadership changes as required.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Not only were profits reduced, and businesses were forced to diversify in order to survive, but the way businesses operate has been forced to change. . Hire Strategically. Research has shown that companies lost on average $14,900 on every bad hire. Invest in Leadership Training. Embrace Digital Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Operate with a comparable level of integrity. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. All partners have compatible work styles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. Greg is part of our executive leadership team and already helps run the firm.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. Back to Podcast. Transcript. I really appreciate it.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start. Pick one section each week.

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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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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. There may be no better place in the US to truly learn leadership and management (in the senses discussed below) than this institution.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

of businesses fail within the first five years of operation. For instance, if you operate in the hospitality industry, keeping up with the latest food and drink trends can help attract more customers and lead to growth. Hire dependable managers It’s no secret that the performance of a team is a reflection of its leadership.

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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. Let’s scrutinize our practices, from hiring to promotion, to ensure fairness and inclusivity at every step. That’s not an argument for slowing down. Luckily that’s what boards do.

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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. We hired more people to help and this freed us to focus on those strategic relationships. – Andrew Thomas, SkyBell Video Doorbell. When you feel overwhelmed.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities). Hiring the wrong member of staff can lead to disappointed customers, a smaller profit margin and a lack of efficiency.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2020

Solid leadership of a remote team is vital to the success of work-from-home efforts. Here are a few leadership tips for managing a remote team: Trust your people. You hired them and you know what they can do. Hire those who will be good at working remotely. Over nearly two decades of experience running three companies ?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Benefits of Hiring a Fractional CMO If you’re a business owner, the thought of hiring a full-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) may have crossed your mind. Cost-Effectiveness of Hiring A Fractional CMO The cost difference between hiring a full-time and fractional CMO is staggering.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

Over the past few months, we have been running a series of posts where we profile one of the many incredible operators in our network. These operators are generous enough to share their expertise and wisdom, and we are lucky to do deep dives into unique topics. And she has just about completed 60 to 140 ( Ada is hiring !).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The main draw for companies towards hiring a fractional chief marketing officer lies within this inherent flexibility—a godsend especially for startups or smaller firms that might not have ample resources yet require top-notch talent steering their go-to-market strategy. It’s akin to flying first-class without having to buy the entire plane.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Operate with a comparable level of integrity. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. All partners have compatible work styles.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

Most companies are focused squarely on the extrinsic motivation of making a profit to expand their operations and satisfy their shareholders. Increasingly, businesses today realize that the key to longevity and long-term profitability lies in making humanity and purpose central tenets of their operations. Begin with leadership.

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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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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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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

The results were the very successful Alexa, Echo, and Home devices, which have propelled Amazon to a leadership position in smart homes. A company has many different functional areas–sales, marketing, product, engineering, finance, operations, and so on. So he simply asked, “What should we try next?” WHY CEOS STEP DOWN.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2020

Peter Drucker, the iconic father of modern management, characterized the difference between management and leadership, saying, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”. To identify leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset you need to change your approach to hiring. Play down the resume.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? What they’re doing.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

It’s my operating manual. The problem: You hired people to fill a job description. Because when you hire someone to fit in a square box you’re forgetting the most important aspect of hiring that person. Be it one hundred or one employee, you hired a human. Here’s the thing. Perhaps starting with this manual.

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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. Once your startup begins to grow, you might want to hire a professional with more experience in finances to focus on this part of your business. Leadership skills.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 Automation.

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