Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The old principle of managing by walking around will give the background, and people always having to wait makes them talk longer when they get your precious attention. But it only works if you observe the following principles: Never hide from your team. Listen and adapt your style to theirs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

This focus also allows your team to better manage disagreement and conflict by reminding everyone of the shared intent. Use curious confrontation to manage disagreement and conflict. Listen with mutual respect and fearless exploration. Only through collaboration can a leader achieve the force multipliers to compete.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This focus also allows your team to better manage disagreement and conflict by reminding everyone of the shared intent. Use curious confrontation to manage disagreement and conflict. Listen with mutual respect and fearless exploration. Only through collaboration can a leader achieve the force multipliers to compete.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Centralizing an onboarding group across all departments of an organization will pay huge dividends when bringing on new hires. Whether it’s an inactive email address, a project management software glitch, or a cracked computer screen, etc., Let’s start with the six suggestions discussed below: 1. Align all the Departments.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. Tools such as LinkedIn are obviously useful, but it can also pay dividends to use your network to find potential hires. You will also start to better manage your existing talent as you come to appreciate the importance of great people. Hiring = Sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This diligence pays dividends in accident prevention down the line. This policy works to improve fleet management while holding employees accountable for their actions when driving the organization’s vehicles. Diligent management of this influential yet controllable human factor promises a major return on investment.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

This can also vary as you grow and as some owners pull back from managing the LLC. Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Management. There are also limitations on how dividends are paid out.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2013

Get managers on board. One of the best ways to build momentum for positive organizational change of any type is to create consensus with the management team and let them lead by example. It may be a good idea to prep your management team prior to rolling out the general company policy on cyber security.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

take about five seconds to say, but they can pay long-lasting dividends for your company. During our best months, it included everyone from upper management to drivers to floor salespeople and was often over 30 pages long! Professionalisms employee management human resources managing employees talent management'

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2024

[link] With this, you want to offer investors a path to possessing high-priced assets to earn dividend income. Now, you’re probably looking for certain strategies to help with planning, asset management, acquisition, etc. Managing all these while being new to the industry can be challenging without assistance.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2017

Dependent on your business, these marketing efforts may pay dividends in customers remembering your brand or slogan. Don’t dismiss traditional marketing methods. Although traditional marketing methods can be costly, they shouldn’t be dismissed altogether. People love to see visuals when deciding on whether they choose you or a competitor.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Each case study raised a different set of management challenges that the participants were asked to consider, including dilemmas relating to business model shifts and financing decisions. For Battery, the ROI for the Workshop will be difficult to quantify.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2018

Direct managers or supervisors are usually the most influential in this regard. So, the owner of the business and the manager are one in the same. The key is constructive communication between managers and staff. We all tend to do our best at work when we experience encouragement from our superiors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This focus also allows your team to better manage disagreement and conflict by reminding everyone of the shared intent. Use curious confrontation to manage disagreement and conflict. Listen with mutual respect and fearless exploration. Only through collaboration can a leader achieve the force multipliers to compete.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I want folks managing their programs, not managing the Pentagon bureaucracy. I think it’s going pay dividends for us. General Raymond has managed to thread the needle to make this a service. That’s going to require some different rules for operating under.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC: Blended Return.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2011

Their role is to bring the creative talents of those people together, let them do what they do best, but then steer it and direct it so that the film pays dividends. But we also need to focus on the producer. Like it or not, Hollywood is about making money from creative people.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

A typical series of Preferred Stock in a venture-backed startup carries a liquidation preference, anti-dilution rights, dividend preference, a separate vote to fill its own seat(s) on the Board of Directors, “protective provisions” requiring the company to obtain a separate vote of the Preferred to take certain corporate actions, and more.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For other mistakes to avoid as a product manager, check out my recent Linkedin post on the top 10 mistakes product managers make and read everything you can by Marty Cagan. A board meeting should be a discussion, or even a white board session, where the founder and management team can have a sounding board on strategy and tactics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

They use customer relationship management systems (CRM) for more effective tracking and data. It pays big dividends to make realistic promises and over-deliver the first time, and then follow-up to check for follow-on opportunities every three months. Don’t forget seminars and events. Raise the conversion rate with effective follow-up.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

However, even with these tools, identity management, authorization, and user management can still remain a challenge. In general, onboarding users can be a time-sensitive and manual process that involves using the right administrators across multiple departments to manage the entire process.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

take about five seconds to say, but they can pay long-lasting dividends for your company in terms of morale and motivation. At Autopart International, one of the best management decisions I ever made was showing my employees ‘the numbers’ on a regular basis. Then, point out exactly what it is about their behavior that you appreciate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

Cohen and John Kador, in their classic book “ What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know ,” includes these great points of practical advice on this subject: Manage expectations before the fact. In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2018

The profit collected from the efficient working of the organization is distributed among the members in the form of the dividends. The most important part of the management is to coordinate the activities of the member and regulate the functioning. It saves time of the trader and help them to regulate all the activities at once.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

These tests were assembly language programs that tested for correct CPU operation, and management had budgeted 6-8 weeks to develop a particularly complex set of tests. They’re designing key abstractions that will pay dividends through the life of the project.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Even if you have unique sources of income, such as dividends or capital gains from selling assets, a CPA can guide you correctly. Getting acquainted with these technological options can simplify the process and offer greater flexibility in effectively managing your taxes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. These changes pay increasing dividends, because each improvement now direclty frees up somebody in QA at the same time as reducing the total time of the certification step. If peer pressure doesnt work then it looks like a management problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

The old principle of managing by walking around will give the background, and people always having to wait makes them talk longer when they get your precious attention. But it only works if you observe the following principles: Never hide from your team. Listen and adapt your style to theirs.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

Navigating Failure: The Science of Failing Well in Entrepreneurship written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Amy Edmondson, the Novartis professor of leadership and management at the Harvard Business School.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

If you’re the hiring manager for your company, here are five tips that can help you find the right people — and do your job more successfully: 1. Sometimes hiring managers have fixed ideas that prevent them from objectively evaluating candidates when putting together national or global teams.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

So if there is one technology consistent in meeting the dividend demands, it is artificial intelligence. AI for managing risks . People are using technology to have a personalized experience, secure their accounts, and make their dealings with money even more manageable.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 24, 2011

To get to a point where “passive” income was flowing into their accounts, these online entrepreneurs had to build and maintain blogs, develop relationships with other bloggers, create and manage email lists, and grow their traffic over time.

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