Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Leaders are judged on key elements of execution, including a focus on priorities, ensuring clear accountability, managing decision making, mobilizing others, adapting quickly, and communicating execution urgency. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Carlos stirred his coffee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leaders are judged on key elements of execution, including a focus on priorities, ensuring clear accountability, managing decision making, mobilizing others, adapting quickly, and communicating execution urgency. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

After the director left, I must have looked pretty surprised as the CFO explained, “We have tens of thousands of employees, and at the rate we’re growing it’s almost impossible to keep up with our space needs in the Bay Area. In contrast, professional managers attempt to bring order to chaos and often kill the startup culture in the process.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

Strategic operations management in the electronic industry is not easy. Catering to a diversified niche at every level is tough, mainly because each product and service shall require some type of differentiation in the typical operations management within the manufacturing plants.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2023

Modern technology has made it possible for fleet managers to optimize operations, streamline vehicle acquisition, and leverage telematics innovations to their advantage. One of the key benefits of efficient fleet management is cost reduction. Improved customer satisfaction is another advantage of well-managed fleets.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Management Software Review 157

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I presented to 1,000’s of entrepreneurs, talked to 17 startups, gave 12 lectures, had 9 interviews, chatted with 8 VC’s, sat on 4 panels, talked policy with 2 government ministers, 2 members of parliament, 1 head of a public pension fund and was in 1 TV-documentary. Toxic Business Press and Contradictory Government Incentives.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 6, 2024

When starting a property management business, offering key services, such as tenant screening, property maintenance, rent collection, and financial reporting, can set you apart and attract clients. Managing rental properties involves providing comprehensive solutions beyond finding good tenants. Will you start solo or hire employees?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

He seemed to ignore the fact that hungry people rarely have money, and governments are very unpredictable customers. Building and managing a business is a wholly different world from building an innovative solution. Learn how to build and manage a small team. What you learn will apply to employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2022

Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

The human resources department is critical to your company’s performance, and there are two ways to manage the HR function in your firm. Any operation that involves an employee, like recruitment, payroll management, or even offboarding, can be included in these HR functions or duties. . 2 Managing Performance.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. And when the government tools to detect encrypted VPN’s get more sophisticated, (as it did last year), Chinese users just use stealthier tools.

China 328

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

If you own or manage a small business, there are still things you can do now to survive, and maybe even thrive, through these tough times and in the future. You can, however, make sure you do your part in keeping your employees and yourself safe from the disease. These numbers are disheartening considering that there were 30.7

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Your challenge will be to break down silos, manage diverse and inclusive perspectives, and capitalize on cross-functional insights. Establish a governance process to support efforts.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Metrics 252

Board Effect

MARCH 15, 2022

How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board. Improving hospital governance is an issue that has come to the forefront in recent years because many who work in the field believe that clinical governance has taken a back seat to other important managerial issues like policy changes, setting target measures, and performance.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

companies can no longer afford to provide group health insurance to their employees. And both employers and employees alike have tried to make the most of a bad situation. Below as an overview of the steps you should take right now whether you’re an employer, insurance professional, trusted adviser, or employee: If you’re an employer….

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

The size standards are different for each industry and are defined by the government body established to oversee such matters. Generally, the size is based on the number of employees and annual receipts for a given period. Partnership – Formed by two or more owners in agreement on how to start, manage and operate a business.

Small Business 167

Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the Lean Startup, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. They then buy stock in these public companies and attempt to convince management to increase the price of the shares.

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Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 271

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed. And it may work.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Equity Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy 235

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. —– Lean Innovation Management. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals. I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2014

He’s helping city government in Philadelphia become more innovative by applying Lean startup methods and Philadelphia University’s innovation curriculum. I asked him to share an update on his work on teaching lean techniques to local governments. Inaugural Class Academy of Innovation Management. Here’s the story of our journey.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. We’re less than 8 years old so you can do the math on growth rates and figure out that we’re on an elite trajectory.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. In management positions, women representation is 23.3%. Insight Partners – Insight manages more than $30 billion and was the most active fund in Israel in 2021 (with 46 rounds). Strong foundations.

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Israel Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 158

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Our goals, their goals.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2019

Without the resources to hire a full time bookkeeper and little understanding of how to get their heads above water, many of these small businesses will founder having struggled due to lack of cash flow and poorly managed accounts. Stay compliant with ATO and government legislation through automated updates to tax and payroll processes.

Software Review 176

Software Review Due Diligence Startup Stock 176

Board Effect

AUGUST 24, 2023

In this article, we explore how your organization can build a cybersecurity risk management framework based on best practices to ensure you are protecting sensitive data, safeguarding board members and other stakeholders, and mitigating risk while maintaining donor trust — as well as your own reputation.

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Framework Management Technical Review Security 98

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Some of the most important lessons he took from the early chaotic days of the pandemic were to remain flexible and trust his employees. Evaluate common on-site and off-site risks and then develop incident management plans for every possible scenario. Have a pre-established plan for employees to work remotely.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

We did projects with the Australian Federal Government and McAfee. Our little business grew from four employees to over 30. After the acquisition, I managed the Safe Eyes team at McAfee for two years. The next five years were a whirlwind. We hired a CEO to help us build the business. We received a venture capital investment.

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Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 188

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

we are restricting work travel by our employees, both domestically and internationally. We are also strongly advising our employees to be thoughtful about all personal travel, particularly where they would be congregating in larger groups. Why are we taking these unprecedented steps? Every hour counts.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Information and communications technology include 4,600 companies and 45,000 employees. tests new technology on a province-wide scale for industry and government. Hiring for tech jobs in Vancouver is all done online.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When they did their first partnership with IBM, they had just 32 employees. If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Over this course you’ve heard from the leading voices across the military, government, and industry issue a call to action.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Corporate governance expert Nygina Mills discusses the critical role of compliance in building resilient businesses that can withstand regulatory and market changes. Central to fostering this resilience is the role of compliance in risk management. The concept of compliance extends beyond mere adherence to legal standards.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2021

Right from the costs, several openings to creating an experience to retain your best employees, everything is important. If you look at the market, right now — there’s a huge opportunity for start-ups to showcase that they can offer a lot more than just paychecks to their employees. Recruitment remains powerful, always.

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Hiring Technical Review Software Review Startup 159

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2020

If you want to, you can pay in installments, which will make your purchase more manageable. There would be less capital outlay and your loan payments would be easier to manage. As your operations expand, you may also need to hire additional employees such as mechanics, bookkeepers, and accountants, so be sure to budget for new staff.

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