The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

To match pace with rapidly changing technology and strengthen a position in the marketplace, entrepreneurs cannot just rely on the typical qualifications. In such situations, adaptable entrepreneurs can easily match the pace with constantly changing technology. Leadership Skills. Adaptability.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Entrepreneur Leadership Operations 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. 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.

Cofounder 221

Cofounder Software Review CTO Hire Founder 221

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

From her two decades of experience at Salesforce, Gartner, and consulting, she offers a unique perspective on what it takes to create a balanced focus on improving employee experiences to match customers. More and more business leaders, including Richard Branson, use this style to great advantage.

Employee 282

Employee Matching Customer Leadership 282

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Make sure they match before you commit. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. Deliverables and the resources you have to achieve them are two sides of the same equation. How do I measure success?

Metrics 387

Metrics Technical Review Leadership Framework 387

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

Objectively audit your business health for weaknesses and strengths in resources, leadership, skills, and experience. Act: Execute the plan and establish leadership drive. Take leadership control and allocate responsibility and feedback loops. Advance: Institutionalize new learning and leadership creation.

Technical Review 226

Technical Review Leadership Portfolio Matching 226

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

Look for a match in culture and values, as well as technical strength. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. Don’t fall for a technical pitch you can’t fathom.

Technical Cofounder 260

Technical Cofounder Technology Management Entrepreneur 260

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2016

For example, TOMS Shoes matches every pair of shoes purchased with a new pair of shoes for a child in need, driving engagement for employees and customers. Link your business to a higher purpose than profits. Team members with a compelling sense of social or environmental purpose feel an extraordinary engagement.

Leadership 144

Leadership Software Review Social Media Employee 144

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Leadership Tip: Develop a hybrid talent strategy, one in which you leverage consultants from the gig economy as well as your own employees. Leadership Tip: Consider how your organization can create a hybrid plan that allows employees to continue working remotely a few days a week and one that allows some to work in the office.

Technical Review 275

Technical Review Cofounder Leadership Employee 275

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well.

Sales 348

Sales Startup Bootstrapping Technical Review 348

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2016

By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals As a retired executive I now reflect on my own leadership styles in different situations during my extensive career. My leadership style has evolved over time and I am wondering whether this is related to increasing experience or different situations.

Leadership 120

Leadership Matching Exit Strategy Europe 120

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. This is when your job function truly starts to match the definition of “leader” because that’s exactly what your role is. Leadership is actually quite difficult.

CTO Hire 385

CTO Hire Entrepreneur Technical Review Leadership 385

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. 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.

Partner 140

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 140

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

More sophisticated clinical trial matching. Using data to match qualified patients with studies will increasingly end the physical boundaries associated with clinical trials – facilitated in part to COVID-19 necessitating more virtual trials.

Artificial Inteligence 147

Artificial Inteligence Matching Algorithm Technical Review 147

Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 17, 2022

Regardless of the size of your business, your success depends on your leadership. How we’re defining leadership has changed here in my office, and after seeing the significant increase in productivity, profit, and overall employee satisfaction, I hope other businesses follow suit. . Connection. Encourage innovation and collaboration.

Leadership 135

Leadership Employee Matching Hiring 135

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Fred Wilson , Joanne Wilson , Amy , and I are doing our second Monthly Match. We will be matching $20,000 of contributions that our respective communities make to NILC. Since we are matching 1:1, each dollar you contribute gets NILC another dollar. That will register it for our match.

Matching 113

Matching America Community Leadership 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2018

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Rising stars.

Employee 129

Employee Leadership Cofounder Matching 129

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

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. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations.

Partner 269

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 269

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Down-line it’s the leadership model you use with your internal teams and external partners. These are the forces that initiate and sustain transformation efforts.

Leadership 161

Leadership Framework Matching Entrepreneur 161

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 8, 2023

After that, you could move into team leadership, then to department, regional, and national management positions. These sites let headhunting employers browse your CV if they are looking for jobs which match your search criteria. Tech careers usually have opportunities for advancement within the role.

Application Development 52

Application Development Web Development SEO Matching 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2016

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Rising stars.

Leadership 120

Leadership Cofounder Matching Restful 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2014

How do Asian women experience leadership? Developed from Horan’s doctoral dissertation, the book is structured as a “multicultural narrative inquiry” focusing on the leadership experiences of women in Asia. What challenges do they face?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Leadership Asia Thailand 223

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

As an angel investor, I quickly look behind the idea or solution, to gauge the mindset and the leadership capabilities of the entrepreneur. Leadership on ideas is a start, but entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to deliver on the new reality as well. For them, adapting and stretching their limits is the norm.

Angel Investor 297

Angel Investor Leadership Social Network Startup 297

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2023

His top eight required skill set elements for sales don’t even mention product skills, and match my view of the right skill set for successful entrepreneurs, with only a few priority changes: Creating and sharing a vision. Product leadership alone might have been enough in the past, but today people are looking at a bigger picture.

Leadership 385

Leadership Matching Sales Demand 385

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations.

Partner 258

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Equity 258

Board Effect

JUNE 26, 2023

Ultimately, community bank boards need to assess whether the expectations they have for themselves match their performance and whether they’re meeting the needs of the organization. Board recruitment has to be an ongoing activity to ensure that the organization maintains strong leadership in the coming years.

Community 98

Community Software Review Technical Review Government 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2015

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members. Rising stars.

Startup 120

Startup Leadership Cofounder Matching 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

This question-based leadership approach starts with humility and a firm belief in the old adage, “There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.” The best leaders strive to match decision-making with the team responsible by asking the right questions. Ultimately, it creates leadership businesses as well as business leaders.

Leadership 161

Leadership Matching Partner Customer 161

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Down-line it’s the leadership model you use with your internal teams and external partners. These are the forces that initiate and sustain transformation efforts.

Leadership 286

Leadership Framework Matching Entrepreneur 286

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 28, 2022

I learned a huge lesson from my early leadership style experience and am going to share it with you. You just need to transform your leadership. The most impactful leadership style is not what you think. Reflecting back to my first “real” job, leadership was old school (and not in that cool, old school way). Not so much.

Leadership 78

Leadership Small Business Matching Restful 78

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I’ve watched other world class consumer product companies make the same mistakes: Come up with amazing hardware that creates entirely new capabilities Forecast demand based on volumes of their previous consumer products Confuse consumers by defining a new category without a frame of reference Discover the hardware doesn’t match their existing consumer (..)

Search 256

Search Marketing Forecast Burn Rate 256

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2024

He's the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, where he is a strategy facilitator, speaker, advisor, and coach to executive leadership teams. And so I tried to come up with this compass based on the folks that I was working with in the four areas of strategy, leadership, organization, and communication.

Campaign 70

Campaign Leadership Differentiation Email 70

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Here are some of the key indications that you might be a good match for a lifestyle business, for you to compare and consider against your own objectives and strengths: Enjoy interacting with customers and products every day. Take pride in your leadership role in the local environment. Use flexibility to match your lifestyle.

Small Business 311

Small Business Small Business Administration SBA Equity 311

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Make sure they match before you commit. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. Deliverables and the resources you have to achieve them are two sides of the same equation. How do I measure success?

Metrics 271

Metrics Technical Review Leadership Framework 271

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Luckily, I had always been a “hands-on” professional, and I had learned the pragmatics of people leadership, marketing, management tools, and funding. Promote yourself with a title to match your expertise. Leadership by example works at all levels of a company. Market yourself and work at all organizational levels.

Silicon Valley 140

Silicon Valley Social Media Software Review Leadership 140

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. Of the several dozen independent directors Bolster has helped match to companies in the past year, almost 70% of them are from demographic populations that are historically underrepresented in the boardroom.

Leadership 62

Leadership Later Stage Search Hiring 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

My bottom-line recommendation and theirs is that every visionary entrepreneur needs to be matched with a cofounder or key team member who has the required execution attributes. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Founder Entrepreneur Startup 120

Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

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. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations.

Partner 179

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 179