Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Leadership Development. Leadership skills are abundant in startups since everyone has to pitch in in order for a project to succeed. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. 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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. He was inspired by Salesforce.com and the Salesforce Foundation so he wanted to do something similar in Boulder – contributing 1% of the equity and 1% of the employees’ time to local philanthropic efforts.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

Agile Management. On this blog, you’ll read about great ideas for becoming a more agile manager. Follow Weekly Leader to find the latest in leadership news and best practices for improvement. The Agile Executive. Managing Leadership. Extreme Leadership. Time Leadership. Welcome to Trendy Management.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rosenberg comes fresh from managing the growth of Keyrus, a data consulting company, from 35 to 120 employees. In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. Geographic expansion.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Keep Employees Engaged When on The Bench. Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites. However, quickly determine other sectors worthy of interest and try to hire leadership and tech talent experienced in those areas.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2013

Jubenville, co-authors of “ Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle “. And why, despite all of the tasks they perform, do your employees seem more like a herd of unfocused, fractious, and very noisy animals rather than the unified team you’d like them to be? by Micheal J. Burt and Colby B.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. Geographic expansion.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

1- Focus on employee well-being Photo Credit: Dr. Joyce Kahng As the digital age continues to evolve, the well-being of employees should remain at the forefront. Employee well-being is an important factor in making sure that companies are running efficiently, and it should always be a top priority.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Recent research estimates that one in five employees will have an artificial intelligence (AI) system as their coworker by 2022. As they prepare to roll out their AI solutions, corporate leadership teams must be sure to conduct careful cost-benefit analyses. Conduct Cost-Benefit Analyses. Fostering a Collaborative Culture.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We need our own cafeteria so employees don’t have to leave the building. The new building telegraphed to our employees, “We’ve arrived. The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] We didn’t have enough conference rooms.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. People in small teams trust each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

I believe these factors are key to the future success of every new startup, as well as every mature company: Leadership must be values-based and people focused. The command and control leadership of the past is proving to be too inflexible, devoid of values, and not empathic to people issues – customers, employees, and partners.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs create success by being agile and by making effective but quick decisions based on what they have in front of them. The “benevolent” part means doing the right thing for the right reasons, for all stakeholders — in education, this means your teachers and other school employees, your students, their parents, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well. hope to hear from you. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. When business performance is non-positive, every employee, at every level, will work super-duper hard to look at every dimension of data to find any semblance of good news (no matter how small). I had an opportunity to spend time with him and his leadership team. Long-term…. : (.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, all levels and functions in your businesses must be creative, responsive, and agile. Rule #5: Open the floodgates of employee creativity. Employees want to be engaged in their work and want to contribute to something greater than themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It takes a team, with effective leadership, to build a business. Many aspiring entrepreneurs default to team leadership by domination and control. The principles of connected leadership are outlined well in a classic book, “ The Vitality Imperative ,” by Mickey Connolly, Jim Motroni, and Richard McDonald.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

When you begin treating your employees as assets rather than expenses, they'll be able to tap into their real potential; this will give both parties a win-win situation because teams want the opportunity to encourage their growth and boost their performance, which means greater productivity from both those working side-by-side at any given moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It takes a team, with effective leadership, to build a business. Many aspiring entrepreneurs default to team leadership by domination and control. The principles of connected leadership are outlined well in a classic book, “ The Vitality Imperative ,” by Mickey Connolly, Jim Motroni, and Richard McDonald.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

Employees at all levels should be included. As a result, all employees must be included in the digital transformation process and play their role. Everyone should be involved in formulating and implementing the digital strategy, from tech-savvy employees to decision-makers. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Research shows that 95% of organizations do not start as Lean organizations – they implement Lean after identifying a need for better agility, visibility, and efficiency. Lean Transformations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. If you know the true story of any [startup], the early employees are every bit as entrepreneurial, every bit as dedicated … as the true founder,” Eric seconded.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Account hacking: It just takes one employee to fall victim to a phishing or spear phishing attack for the entire company’s data to be breached. The possibilities are endless and detrimental to one’s business.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Leadership models have evolved to adapt to the digital and global landscape. Cultivating talent, leveraging technology, and being open to change is pivotal for future leadership success. Agile leadership, therefore, becomes the linchpin for organizations aiming to maintain competitive advantage and innovative edge.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success. No two employees are the same, and your management plan should reflect that. Hire dependable managers It’s no secret that the performance of a team is a reflection of its leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. Geographic expansion.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

In a recession, some businesses may lay off talented employees. However, one area that businesses cannot afford to divest from is their own employees. In reality, maintaining a workplace culture that values and supports employees through hard times can mean the difference between sinking or swimming during a recession.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today It wasn’t that we somehow had inherited dumb employees. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea. we might fail to deliver 40,000 leads.)

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As a leadership coach, going into 2021, I intend to shift how I acquire new clients to support in their leadership journey as an aspiring or first-time leader. I am looking to reopen offices in a smaller capacity when it is safe to do so and when my employees are comfortable with returning. Photo Credit: Edward Gorbis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Where do you see your fit in this leadership transformation ? If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. Let collaborative leadership mitigate individual biases.

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

That includes items that appropriately would fall into contribution margin, like fulfillment labor (pick/pack/ship employees), payment processing costs (just shy of 20% of this Fulfillment bucket), and variable costs of fulfillment infrastructure like leases on warehouses. Conclusion.

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