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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. So why now?

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Michael Polk Shares How Smaller Companies Can Offer Big Leadership Development Opportunities

The Startup Magazine

This deliberate and patient talent development model is one of the benefits that come with scale and diversification in large companies. The post Michael Polk Shares How Smaller Companies Can Offer Big Leadership Development Opportunities appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walker

He brought relevant operating experience and a great perspective into the room, representing not the CEO, not the investors, but *the company,* which is exactly what you want from an Independent. NG: Beacon Software is a new company that my co-founder Divya and I started earlier this year.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Avoiding operating at capacity | Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog - [link]. “Great companies transcend their great products … these companies adapt, innovate and reinvent.”

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Boards

OnlyOnce

Throughout my 20+ years of entrepreneurship , I’ve led four companies (including Bolster, where I’m a co-founder and CEO today) and served on eight boards. I’ve learned that strong boards can help propel a company forward and I’ve also witnessed how weak and ineffective boards can hold companies back.

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I‘ve founded and run marketing agencies for 20 years, I’m running one now, and yet I hate the agency industry. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Jeff Hilimire

I sold one of my companies (Engauge) to a holding company, and the result was quite frankly disastrous. We had ~200 employees that went to the new company, and five years later roughly 90% of those employees were no longer with the company. Every company has values that they’ve written down.