Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That has mainly meant really figuring out how to be a leader and continuously refining my leadership approach as the company has grown. I don’t profess to have it solved, but I’ve learned a great deal about how to scale my leadership approach that I didn’t know back when we started Greenhouse. This is still very much a journey I’m on.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 7, 2022

There’s been a growing cry for tech companies to add diversity to their leadership teams and boards, and for good reason. Bolster’s Board Benchmark study in 2021 indicated that only a third of private companies have independent directors at all;even later stage private companies only have independent directors two-thirds of the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

So it was a timely conversation at this year’s Upfront Summit because the week of the Summit, Sequoia had announced that it was transitioning leadership from Jim Goetz to Roelof Botha (and US operations to Alfred Lin). The great firms transition day-to-day leadership and often those who don’t fail to protect their “franchise value.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Leadership – Plan, Communicate and Act with Compassion. Data from the last large crash in 2008 had seed rounds recovering early, but later stage funding cratered and took years to recover. If they pull back, there will be a liquidity crunch for later stage startups (Series B, C…).

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

Any company that aspires to maintain a leadership position needs to position itself to exploit these two macro trends. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms invest in venture (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/distressed/secondary funds). domestic market. economic growth.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. Founders know they want to start something. The rest is worth reading as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2016

Additionally, you need to consider that some contributors prefer the challenges of early-stage startups to mid- or later-stage startups, while other types of employees might now be needed at this greater scale (e.g.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

What is your leadership end game goal? For many early-stage companies with outside investors, the goal is to ultimately sell the company or even go public, always at a significant increase in valuation over time. But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” If the “nut” is too high I usually veer them towards later-stage opportunities (post B or C round) where the comp is higher, the exit is more likely / nearer, the upside is still nice but obviously not the same as if you joined early). HR Leadership Startup Lessons' It could be a stepping stone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

Incubator 247

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2014

In later-stage businesses, entitlement is evident when employees treat customers with indifference, or feel they are entitled to their job by merely “showing up for work.” We notice what we like and what we dislike, so we work to make society match our dreams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2013

In later-stage businesses, entitlement is evident when employees treat customers with indifference, or feel they are entitled to their job by merely “showing up for work.” We notice what we like and what we dislike, so we work to make society match our dreams.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

Second is the ability to capitalize on a well-known brand—the result of many years of marketing, PR, and thought leadership within the industry. We set some pretty tight deadlines on the later stages. • Customer involvement, early and often —The team involved customers in building our new product from the very beginning.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders. Next week: the later stage founder answer (link won’t be live until 12/16/2021).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

That being said, it’s not going to come down that much because so many VCs got funded, and the best later-stage deals have a little more consensus in the market based on their data—so you’re still going to get VC competition. Cultivate authentic VC relationships and a leadership profile over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2012

In later-stage businesses, entitlement is evident when employees treat customers with indifference, or feel they are entitled to their job by merely “showing up for work.” We notice what we like and what we dislike, so we work to make society match our dreams.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Someone with strong analytical intuition can become a strategic thought partner with the leadership team and functional leaders. It means the ability to ask 2nd- and 3rd-order questions through data manipulation and derive interesting insights out of seemingly unwieldy, large sets of numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2011

In later-stage businesses, entitlement is evident when employees treat customers with indifference, or feel they are entitled to their job by merely “showing up for work.” We notice what we like and what we dislike, so we work to make society match our dreams.

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Gust

JULY 13, 2014

In later-stage businesses, entitlement is evident when employees treat customers with indifference, or feel they are entitled to their job by merely “showing up for work.” We notice what we like and what we dislike, so we work to make society match our dreams.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2021

Just as hard skills are vital for the project to keep going, soft skills such as communication, leadership, and negotiation are critical for your startup’s success. You can add other roles at a later stage when the startup progresses. Your team members should interact adequately, honor each other, and should manage conflicts.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . Later stage, public companies are right-sizing their teams, so there are many opportunities out there. David Zhang.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. There was later-stage capital provided by Morgan Stanley, NewView Capital, Goldman Sachs and others that gave us a long-term outlook.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

VCs don’t expect any serious corrections to valuations in 2017 and they seem to be taking financial discipline in later-stage companies more seriously, valuing unit economics over “growth at any cost.”. While a year ago many VCs were planning to cut their pace of investments, now very few are.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

So is strong support from the parent company’s leadership. Bodas notes, “Some corporations are very technology and engineering centric so the technology risk that may come with investing in an earlier stage startup is more broadly understood within the corporation. Culture of innovation, a strong balance sheet, other?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. The company was lucky to survive his later stage leadership, and would be gone today had Bill Ford not brought in the ex-Boeing fellow who turned it around and runs it today. One guy really did all of this.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 11, 2020

The mistake people frequently make in recruiting CEOs rather than later-stage co-founders is that they focus on bringing in the best corporate athlete, rather than hiring someone where the company’s mission was an integral part of their life story. His leadership goal isn’t glory for him, but glory for the team.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Make sales leaders part of your ABM leadership team. The most significant financial returns will happen in the later stages, after you’ve identified and engaged target accounts. Sales shouldn’t feel like they’re helping out marketing, and marketing shouldn’t feel that they’re passing leads on for sales to take the glory.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. Others have chased earlier-stage but lack the skills or relationships to do this effectively. Some have moved into later stage investments in an effort to “put logos on their websites.&# These trends have put pressure on traditional VCs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

John Jantsch (04:13): Frankly, I think self-awareness is the new, like, key leadership skill. They want a path to grow themselves. They want, obviously we want to earn, but people wanna be engaged, you know? It resonates with people outside. Frankly, Andrew Warden (04:17): I, I couldn't agree with you more.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

John Jantsch (04:13): Frankly I think self-awareness is the new like key leadership skill, frankly. You know, a lot of companies marketing is assisting with sales and kind of provides M QLS or SQLs to sales leadership. They want a path to grow themselves. They want, obviously we want to earn, but people wanna be engaged, you know?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

from growing startups to late-stage buyouts. Many private equity firms will continue to approach later-stage companies with future growth opportunities in addition to working with established businesses with strong foundations. True Wealth Ventures focuses on funding companies with women on the leadership team.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2018

Thought-leadership: Offer unique findings and industry insights within the article. If your content is as relevant at a later stage as it is now, it has evergreen qualities. Many of your competitors may prioritise industry relations for a later stage.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

proving that this “consumer purchase” is, in fact, a journey not a one-time use) Our leadership and vision earned marquee partnerships and champions in both the public & private sectors from the United Way of Central Texas, Partners in Parenting, Promise Venture Studio, IDEO and more! (Yes, Our Monthly Active Users was 53%?—?(people

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