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Startup Founders Should Focus on Managing Expectations Before Managing KPIs

YoungUpstarts

Demonstrate inclusive leadership, and include the entire team in the decision-making process – not just top down. Don’t cut costs just at the bottom level – reduce everyone’s salary by an equal percentage. Practices like this demonstrates how founders can ‘lead from the front’ and become an attractive place to work.

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Top 10 Most Expensive Mistakes New Restaurant Owners Make

Up and Running

The high cost of marketing, salaries, appliances, ambiance, and so on will dry up incoming revenue instantly. Understand that good leadership is always key. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups. Create discount offers to get your event customers to visit the restaurant.

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Serve To Be Great: 11 Leadership Lessons From A Prison, A Monastery, And A Boardroom

YoungUpstarts

by Matt Tenny, author of “ Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom “ A recent Gallup poll shows that only 30 percent of Americans are actively engaged at work. This is accomplished easily when you build a culture of servant leadership. Since then, it’s been almost vertical.

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The Impact Matrix | A Digital Analytics Strategic Framework

Occam's Razor

Action #2: Aligning Metrics & Leadership Altitude. VPs have a higher altitude, they are paid a ton more in salary, bonus and stock, because they carry the responsibility for making super strategic decisions – impacting tens of millions of dollars. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Founder Earnings = Net Income + any amount of founders’ salaries over a certain threshold. If you want to eat ramen, pay yourselves a small salary, and reinvest every dollar into growth, we don’t get a penny and that’s okay. “As your business grows we calculate what we call “Founder Earnings” and Earnest is paid a percentage.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Heather is an outspoken advocate for women in tech leadership roles and building an inclusive and diverse workforce. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country?