Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?” everything. But it’s only Tuesday.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership, and she co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s late Clayton Christensen. Questions I ask Whitney Johnson: [1:26] How are you applying the S Curve of Learning to growth and leadership? [2:48] She's an expert at smart growth leadership.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2020

“ Thankfully, this is changing, in part to leadership by firms like Freestyle. The partners, Josh, David Samuel, and Jenny Lefcourt have announced an initiative initially focused on their portfolio founders in an effort to break down the barriers to better mental health for all in our industry. Those were the times.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

Whitney is an expert in smart growth leadership, and she co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s late Clayton Christensen. Questions I ask Whitney Johnson: [1:26] How are you applying the S Curve of Learning to growth and leadership? [2:48] She's an expert at smart growth leadership.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 11, 2022

We Wrote These For Our Portfolio Founders But Want Everyone To Have Them. Thanks to our Beth Scheer , our Head of Talent, and the folks over at Coda (a portfolio company that’s evolved what docs can do), we’ve updated and reformatted these 50+ guides including topics such as: How to Evaluate a Resume. Best Practices for Remote Hiring.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

With over 20 years of experience in the language services industry, Elizabeth garnered national praise for her leadership and expertise in her field with awards such as Negocios Now’s Latinas in Business Award (2017). TSM: With a bit more detail, what does NAWBO do for its members from a benefits and amenities standpoint?

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

He has over 20 years of industry experience in transformative initiatives, technology leadership and architecture competency across the product portfolio and the enterprise. Xavier was previously Director of Act!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

flexibility, camaraderie, close collaboration with company leadership, building something new), along with the benefits of your location – specifically for those outside of Silicon Valley (i.e. Just because people aren’t full-time immediately doesn’t mean their role won’t evolve to greater participation in the future. Play up your perks.

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Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2023

It includes training on financial statements analysis, loan portfolio management, interest rate risk, and other relevant financial topics. Everyone comes to the board with their own unique perspectives and capabilities. Each one has something to learn from everyone else in the group.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. EQ and Team Leadership? look at their portfolio list. Summary: Team Leadership skills, operating knowhow and industry knowledge are all tremendously important. Nail on the head. This is what I would look for above all else.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 4, 2015

There are a number of founder leadership models that can work well as a startup evolves. If you can navigate a leadership model that keeps the founder involved and engaged in the business as it scales, it meaningfully improves your odds that startup magic will happen. I have implemented each of these models in my portfolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

I worked with a successful portfolio company recently that had to make some big moves in the market. I met with the leadership team and said, “What are the three big things we really need to get done to be successful this quarter” and we listed them, debated them and agreed on three. Opening is easier than closing.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2020

I’ve been working closely with our portfolio company Scanwell Health who made a very important announcement last Friday about their work on at-home coronavirus testing. — Hopefully, this is a helpful primer from working at the “front of the lines” with one of our portfolio companies. We are all in this together xo.

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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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Brandanew

AUGUST 19, 2016

This enables you to keep the sidebar and header from the portfolio page as well as the portfolio posts. His visionary leadership and flamboyant management style has yielded fruitful results for the company. This process determines specific templates for different posts on the basis of categories’ IDs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

While the value of diverse teams and women in leadership are relatively new topics in the business world, the field of gender lens investment is even newer. No uniform metrics or standardized criteria currently exist to compare actual fund portfolios to determine gender impact in terms of women’s leadership profile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2021

Larger enterprises are always sending their “high fliers” to leadership refreshers, new technology updates, and training on employee performance management. Their business is their entire portfolio. Daily attendance is mandatory in order for the business to succeed and be profitable, and the so-called freedom is hard to find.

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View from Seed

JULY 14, 2020

Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. Rounding out the founding team is Jeff Silver , who brings software and product leadership after years of engineering leadership experience at Managed by Q.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2019

Assuming Leadership: The First 100 Days (BCG). The post Negotiating a Job Offer from a Private Equity/VC Portfolio Company appeared first on David Teten. Introducing our guide to stock options for European entrepreneurs. Guide to Startup Stock Option Grants. Starting Work. How To Start Your New Job And Not Get Fired.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 2, 2018

And when that same outlay should be viewed as an investment.with the goal of building a company’s asset portfolio and maximizing long-term ROI. Sadly, in most small businesses no distinction is made. Here are some common scenarios where this is the case: When evaluating employee compensation. Is the outlay one we “fear” to make?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Build A World-Class Design Portfolio | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1uDPSu7. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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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! 50 Beautifully Simple Portfolio Websites For Your Inspiration – crowdspring.co/18GaqJP. 50 Beautifully Simple Portfolio Websites For Your Inspiration – crowdspring.co/18GaqJP.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 23 Inspiringly Beautiful Portfolio Designs – crowdspring.co/1mVP03W. 23 Inspiringly Beautiful Portfolio Designs – crowdspring.co/1mVP03W.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

But, becoming politically active can be a challenge, particularly if you’re in a business leadership role. An excellent example of businesses taking leadership on this issue is StopHateforProfit.org , the campaign to pressure Facebook not to profit from hate and misinformation. Educate your employees and community on the issues.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They also partner with growth, private equity, and venture capital funds to help their B2B technology portfolio businesses improve their leadership, strategy and execution, and address revenue challenges across their portfolio. Giving back to the community.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

New products: creative solutions to enhance the products and services portfolio which can improve the customer journey. Twelve start-ups have joined the Hangar 51 portfolio from previous programmes. You will receive mentorship from senior leadership and external experts to help you towards these goals. World class mentors.

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Genuine VC

MAY 16, 2012

I’ve seen many portfolio companies hold offsites of various sizes and shapes (in terms of people involved & structure), all tailored to the unique situation of their company. Also, I believe that it’s necessary to having someone planning and drive an agenda to lead sessions, otherwise there’s real risk of wasting productive time.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Don’t feel overwhelmed, however – the rewards here can be twofold – providing your client with a robust portfolio and earning you a sizable fee as expert counsels. Therefore teamwork and leadership skills as well as being adept at recognizing high-reward opportunities are essential.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2020

I can’t begin to estimate the number of hours spent collectivity just across our portfolio on trying to decode the rules, figure out how to comply, decide on a company by company basis if they should apply, and work through all the legal dynamics around them. We sent the following email to all the CEOs in our portfolio last Friday.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Rules of Perfect Portfolio Websites – crowdspring.co/YTR0jA. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! UX vs UI: What’s the Real Score?

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David Cohen

JANUARY 12, 2021

“ Thoughtful leadership evolution in growing and scaling companies is healthy. We’ve seen it over and over again in our own investment portfolio – and helped to mentor our founders through these strategic decisions and transitions. It happens in strong, successful, mission-driven companies all the time.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

I learned about leadership again in my first job out of school. But it was different and required different leadership styles. The hardest leadership challenge is in the home. Any one of you who are a parent will realize that life’s ultimate test of leadership is raising your children. The post On Leadership.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

Id reached out to him not because I was looking for information on how to pitch an investor, but because of the nature of his investment portfolio: of the six startups Boris invested in thoughout 2014, three are led by women. ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

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