Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You can now take advantage of this wisdom directly as Brad has now published it for everybody in a fantastic new book, “Startup Communities.” ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book. Oh, and buy Brad’s book. Here are mine: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

She is also the award-winning author of Material Value: More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing of Everything from Cell Phones to Cleaning Products. You can join business groups and share advice with other solopreneurs. Being a solopreneur, by definition, means going it alone. You don’t hire employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. She literally encourages you to draw things upside down. For others they swear by music.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

Here are several pieces of advice that I learned the hard way: First, not every successful company starts in an accelerator. The idea of First Team was advocated by Patrick Lencioni in a number of his books, particularly in “ The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” and “ The Advantage.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

As startups scale, effective sales implementation becomes the difference between stagnation and sustainable growth. After analyzing hundreds of sales organizations across startups, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I surveyed six seed- and early-stage investors to get their tactical advice for laid-off tech workers who are thinking about starting up. What are a few books, articles or podcasts a newbie should explore before they try to meet with you? Most of them are so open to pitches, they’ve provided their contact information below.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Being profitable certainly makes your company more sustainable in difficult times. Your revenue is the $75 million you got paid in booking fees. I therefore might be “booking” $50,000 per month in revenue on my income statement. ” If you’re not profitable you’re purely a cost center to them.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You can still take advantage of all the small business advice that was shared throughout the event. You can still listen to the whole thing, but we wanted to share some of our favorite moments and pieces of small business advice. Awesome small business advice! Great small business advice from Jason!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Evaluate investors thoroughly, not just based on the size of their check, but whether they can provide strategic advice and introductions that support your vision. Seek investor advice to strengthen your business model. With the right investor relationships, fundraising becomes a byproduct of building something great.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

The following is excerpted from the book “Why Startups Fail” by Tom Eisenmann. I’ll share some advice based on work on entrepreneurial failure that I’ve done as a Harvard Business School professor. While this advice is mostly sound, following it blindly might actually boost your odds of failing. All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2019

Ryan Villanueva is an entrepreneur, educator and co-founder of Best Delegate , a rapidly growing education company with a goal of making Model United Nations a worldwide program in order to help this generation of students lead the world to a better, more peaceful, just, and sustainable future.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Stever Robbins, known on the Internet as the Get-It-Done Guy, outlines his strategies in his classic book “ 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More.” Conflict takes energy to sustain, so work to prevent conflicts from arising, and work to end conflicts quickly that do arise. Build stronger relationships. Superficial relationships don’t help.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Competition and sustainable advantage. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 28, 2020

After three eventful years , I’m excited to say that my new book— The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem , with Brad Feld —is officially available to the public today! It’s my first book, so this is a new feeling. It wasn’t always fun; writing a book of this nature is really hard work.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

We asked the winners in each city to tell us about their companies, provide advice to fellow entrepreneurs, and share a little more about themselves. What advice would you offer entrepreneurs in Orlando? My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion. What does your company do?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A company’s ultimate goal is short-term valuation, long-term stability, sales growth, and sustained profitability. Kim offers invaluable advice to newcomers in the startup investing scene. Kim finds solace in reading specialized books to expand his knowledge. In the startup world, exit strategies are vital.

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OkDork

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Writing a book is hard. Here are 5 reflections from the entire book process (and how you can apply them to your life). Let’s dive in… 1- Success leaves Clues Writing a book is no small decision. Example of a book report from David Goggins’s best seller. We all can do harder things than we realize.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2019

Many times, we would bring in an outside facilitator to help us follow our strict protocol of “no advice—just sharing.” In my new book, Take that Leap: Risking It All for What Really Matters, I re-count how joining EO helped my transformation from a drowning entrepreneur to living the entrepreneurial dream. I certainly did.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Additionally, Do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund? What’s your advice to entrepreneurs who have a chance to meet investors like you? What are the top-three books, or movies that changed your life and why? Build trust. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money? Schwarzman.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

Coaching has the greatest potential to encourage breakthroughs when it’s a one-on-one relationship: You assume the role of mentor and your clients pay good money to listen to, and follow, your advice. In the coaching industry, it’s easy to sell inspiring audio CDs, seminar tickets, books, and other tools to clients who are hungry for change.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 24, 2021

Peter Cimino echoed a key principle from Brad Feld’s Boulder Thesis in his book Startup Communities , that the ecosystem must be open to all. This has now reached the mainstream thanks in large part to Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway’s book, The Startup Community Way. The community should always be open to all. Forget the noun. Do the verb.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, if you are unsure about someone and wondering if you should check in with them, my advice is always to reach out. In Daniel Pink’s book “Drive,” he covers how autonomy, mastery and purpose are the main drivers of motivation. It’s also harder to check if someone is doing all right when there is no watercooler conversation.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What challenges and success the initiative booked in the first six months, and how COVID-19 impacted the project. What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. Advice for replication in other ecosystems. What success looks like in this three-year pilot. Patience is key.

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StartupNation

JULY 6, 2021

Related: Expert Advice for the 4 Million People Who Launched a Business in 2020. Sustaining productivity with that level of mobility means keeping the best people for as long as possible becomes an advantage. To sustain a thriving career, workers in all fields and at all levels will need to become adaptable, lifelong learners.

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StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

It continually surprises me that so many leaders fail to grasp how much the creation and protection of a sustainable brand is in their hands. Related: Expert Advice for the 4 Million People Who Launched a Business in 2020. You will need the help and advice of others. In the end, this is a major responsibility.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like green infrastructure, new mobilities, sustainable tech, urban mobility The Fintech Stage: Dive into the evolution of monetary exchanges and follow the technology that is powering new ways of capturing and distributing value and wealth. Early Bird tickets are now on sale through May 12 — book your pass here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

Some of the best advice I have recieved from So-Young is that, as leaders, we need to constantly empower our associates by allowing them room to grow, giving them tasks that they may not be able to do before, but at the same time, giving them the support and resources to ask for help and advice. Since then, we have become good friends.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Deus Robotics Ukrainian Startup Deus Robotics secured a $1.5M It raised €2.5

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

If we stay close to our purpose, surround ourselves with the right people and find ways to measure and monitor visible progress we will sustain enough encouragement to endure through the building process. With this almost desperate persistence, I learned quickly that ‘no’ very seldom meant just ‘no’.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

A great leader has a strong sense for when the troops can do a big push and work hard for a sustained period of time and when the team needs a break. She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

market: A home testing kit that enables program participants to learn how their body responds to different foods and get personalized nutrition advice. But he says Zoe’s goal is to be able to open up access to personalized nutrition advice much more widely as it keeps gathering more data and insights.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I think there's a lot of counterintuitive advice out there saying you can only have freedom and riches by being an entrepreneur… but you can actually have a lot of that by being an employee and having a great day job. But I can't really give you advice on that without understanding your full story. How to Know When to Quit Your Job.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

His advocacy for reshoring battery manufacturing to the United States echoed the national drive toward sustainability. I also just finished Phil Knight’s book “Shoe Dog” and enjoyed “The Three Body Problem” series earlier this summer.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Testimonial: “As a startup CTO, I was looking to work with a team that can be sustained for multiple years of development and product launch. DuVander says, “The book title is a call to these marketers to treat their technical audience differently. ” Consultant: Ajmera InfoTech. Recommended by: Chintan Bakshi, Skyku.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The incident involving a woman, “EJ” whose apartment was ransacked by short-term tenants who booked a stay through Airbnb was promptly dubbed “Ransackgate.” Too little usually results from well-intentioned legal advice to not to admit anything in the event of litigation.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Jobs are easy to quit, while an organization that helps its people build their careers is much more likely to sustain long-term commitment. If we’ve learned anything from the Great Resignation, it’s that people want careers, not just jobs. That’s why career development must become an integral part of your organization’s culture.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

This time, I connected with 15 startup and SME leaders from my network to discover how they are tackling the current crisis, and what advice they had to offer to others in the same boat. If your business is struggling, be an open book about it. Here are some tips and insights on getting through COVID-19 as a business owner.

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