Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

I found many more helpful suggestions in a new book, “ The Culture Question ,” by Randy Grieser, Eric Stutzman, Wendy Loewen, and Michael Labun, who have spent years providing leadership and professional development training to companies around the world. Ask for help in eliminating useless tasks. No one likes useless work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked what you can do to build the right culture. Here are 10 specific recommendations that I believe will help every founder put this into practice. There is no rule that marketing needs to report to the founder, or that every startup needs a chief operating officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

As a result, there have also been many new resources and mentors popping up specifically aimed at women. But according to a recent book by Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams, “ The Big Enough Company ,” based on years of helping women entrepreneurs, the road to success for women does involve its own unique set of demons. Delegating.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

The founders are (or should be) the most valuable resources in the company and scaling implies that you bring in others to help accomplish tasks that allow the founders to get more leverage. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader. But you do need to find a way to do activities that are more scalable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. They mentor protégés on talent spotting, creativity, and motivation as well as strategy. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO). I found that a lot of my time went into spending time with the country MD’s to show them that they were still important to me and that I was still willing to help with sales campaigns.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. Let investors help you refine your pitch. It’s hard to know just yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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