Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Hologram , a global cellular platform for IoT, announced it hired Mike Georgoff this month as its first Chief Product Officer as the organization continues its growth. Georgoff’s has extensive experience and expertise with developing and launching software as a service (SaaS) products and scaling a variety of business models.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Flexibility is essential for decision making and leadership, too. Progressive.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. Co-branded cards were invented, combining a Visa, MasterCard or American Express payment brand along with a retailer or airline brand. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. It’s a great business. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

They communicate and pass on the DNA of how Silicon Valley operates and what level of performance is needed to compete on a global scale. Viable entrepreneurs who think they are building scalable startups but lack either a key element of their business model and/or lack the right team DNA to “go for it.” Founders Pad.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. Freed received the first scholarship created from a sustainable-business model by the collaboration of EALgreen, WW Grainger, Inc. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2016

By Dan Streeter and Tim Brown, co-authors of “ Old School with New Tools “. This may go against every dog-eat-dog, business-world, spidey-sense you have, but remember, your competitors are just like you. In the 2008 Olympics, Michael Phelps won the Gold Medal in the Men’s 100M butterfly, beating out Milorad Cavic by a mere.01

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

This summer, I landed endorsements by Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup, master marketer Seth Godin, the founders of BNI and GreenBiz.com, and several others for my 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, forthcoming in March from Morgan James (and already available for preorder). #6 – Wonderful & Productive Summer.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. It doesn’t make sense to expend massive resources to win a small market. Distribution.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 7, 2020

It is a risky strategy, but it is the right strategy for outracing the other players when competing for enduring leadership in a winner-take-most market. Of course, back in 2018, we did not foresee a global pandemic and associated depression. Black swan is a light name for a global industry destroying asteroid.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. This week, we discuss how a philosophy degree compares to a much more conventional business background: the masters in business administration or MBA.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. But how strong is that business school network actually useful for entrepreneurs?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? Founders should focus on stability. Retention of Staff.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

WeVue co-founder Taylor Wallace told me he doesn’t have a lot of time for training in the competitive software development industry, so he hires the “naturally curious” to fit with the company’s product-oriented business model. So what’s the best way to create your dream team? Study your game plan.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The Applied Bioplastics Co-Founders: CEO Colin Ardern and CRO Alex Blum The Forrest Four-Cast: February 29, 2020 We’ve got a serious plastic problem. Their mission is to end the global addiction to petroleum-based virgin plastics by providing affordable high-grade recycled alternatives. The proximity to SXSW! Just kidding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The Future of Leadership in 2016 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. And for small business owners looking to grow their business, making the transition from running it to leading it, can be all the difference. The first step is knowing what exactly leadership requires – now and in the future.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2019

by Rob Shelton, co-author of “ The Brilliant Jerk Conundrum: Thriving with and Governing a Dominant Visionary “ Dominant visionaries that lead companies do not act or think like most people. They might break from their normal leadership role and do something offensive in public. That’s what rule breakers generally do.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 10, 2020

I don’t remember how I stumbled upon the book ‘Matsushita Leadership’ by John Kotter but once I start reading it I could not stop. The success that he (and Ryan Lewis) achieved is admirable – to disrupt an industry like the music industry and come out as a global success was just incredible. nosuke Matsushita.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And the potential rewards to joining a startup as a young person have always been there… not just financial if a startup is successful, but also the ability to have outsized influence and leadership roles relatively early in one’s career. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

She transcends all business models. Lloyd and Mary are the founders of the co-op we now know as REI. I look up to them because they were able to turn their passion into a business that helped others share in the benefit of purchasing high-quality outdoor gear at a reasonable price. 14-Oprah Winfrey.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Saturday, March 13th. Representatives from successful translation projects share what works.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We have a unique business model that allows us to be the most competitive lender in the space, by either working with lending partners or originating the loans ourselves. 8- Stop counterfeiting and IP infringement globally. We can protect businesses and consumers from harm. Thanks to Scott Cuthbert, Safeopedia.com !

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

1 – Business Model. Our business is unique because our business model addresses 2 major shifts in the fashion industry today: 1) the rise of fast fashion and its affect on major more traditional fashion companies like Gap, J. We launched our own haircare product line which is a big part of our business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

by Jeffery Kang, CEO and founder, IngDan. From coast to coast, evidence of democratic principles and practices are front and center, playing out everywhere from small town hall meetings to global front page news. Strong leadership in hardware manufacturing for startups looking to scale-up. It’s an election year.

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