Startup Blogpost

MARCH 15, 2024

14 Pieces of Advice for Resolving Conflicts Among Startup Team Members Navigating team conflicts in a startup environment requires wisdom and practical strategies. It’s a testament to how constructive conflict, when handled well, can drive innovation and strengthen team bonds. My top advice?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 7, 2020

I like to provide a leader with deer in the headlights syndrome a lot of support, advice, and constructive feedback. I also believe that leadership is a skill that you never stop learning. The leader just doesn’t seem steady and solid. You can see it in their eyes. It helps to have a gauntlet or two to have to run through.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

What advice do you have for people in fast-growing companies about being a team-player but also taking advantage of the unique opportunity it provides? We had code yellow’s fail, and a commonality with those was that the teams involved likely did not agree with leadership that it was actually that important.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 9, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Construction sites are back at it, and capitalism is raring to go. He is also an active member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization Montreal chapter. Today, countries are opening up at different speeds.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

Confidence in all those areas means large portions of our day and brain space are freed up to focus on the actual construction of the business without worrying if we’re doing things right or wrong. Here are several pieces of advice that I learned the hard way: First, not every successful company starts in an accelerator.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Traditional VC models “can foist artificial time constraints on investors and force them to focus their deal flow into particular stages for fund-construction reasons,” Alex and Anna write for The Exchange. “As All of that is true. Robinhood’s CFO says it was ready to go public.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2020

Nicholas Dancer is the owner and operator of Dancer Concrete Design and he chats with Ramon Ray about concrete, entrepreneurship, leadership, and his new book, Day In, Day Out: The Secret Power in Showing Up and Doing the Work. On Leadership. Nick says leadership is a lot simpler than people make it out to be.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Oftentimes, I read articles offering tips for entrepreneurs that revolve around generic advice on getting started. Listen to constructive criticism, and learn from useful feedback, but always carry a dignified bearing. Roosevelt’s advice resonates here: “Be sincere, be brief, be seated.”. Keep it simple, stupid (KISS).

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Personalized Advice and Guidance One of the most significant advantages of one-on-one mentoring is the personalized advice you receive. With one-to-one mentoring, you aren’t getting generic advice you’re receiving insight applicable to your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

And if we’re reflective, it’s also one of the most important success criteria for investors, senior executives, tech writers and virtually anybody involved in business leadership. I often start thinking about sentences and constructing them in my head. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 21, 2019

In an era rife with corporate misdeeds at the hands of poor leadership – from Volkswagen’s ‘emissionsgate’, to the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach, to the banking royal commission – more than ever, consumers are losing faith in businesses and their leaders. What value do your managers add to your company? Are they ethical?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

 —  @bznotes So I thought I’d offer some high-level advice on how to be a good board member. I know there are many people who like to use their computers to type notes and will disagree with this advice. When this person is the most experienced and also gives good advice the room tends to tolerate it.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

They also look for certain traits in the founder such as vision, passion, and leadership to build the right team. A willingness to take in others’ advice demonstrates adaptability and a willingness to include others in the success of the venture. For a solo entrepreneur, they look for experience and significant accomplishments.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

When you read a thought leadership blog post from a VC – is it actually advice for founders… or is it to establish expertise so LPs keep giving them more money? Don’t take their advice too seriously, and don’t take it personally if they don’t invest in you – there’s an unseen set of stakeholders at play.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

Below, I’ve tried sharing our advice for managing your board – from how often to meet, to the materials you need – in order to ensure a useful and productive group discussion. Post-Series B, most companies will have an executive leadership team that helps the CEO scale and grow the company. Managing Your Board.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

DeepHow is using this technology to bridge the skilled labor gap in the manufacturing, construction and service industries. Software can be licensed to corporations to benefit employees and uses behavioral science to understand the reasoning behind financial decisions people make and to help democratize financial advice for the masses.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Growing up, my dad would get laid off from his union construction job from time to time. . — Chris Plough , author, speaker, advisor, and founding partner of ExponentialU ; he equips epic entrepreneurs for the world that’s coming. Don’t forget service. Folks called, and he could put food on a table for a family of seven.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It can be tempting to use lofty language, but we’ve found it more constructive to focus the conversation on traction. The leadership promptly communicated the issue to investors, highlighting the steps being taken to address the problem. Leveraging Investor Expertise: We actively sought advice and insights from our investors.

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Continuations

APRIL 4, 2020

Let me start by writing about the kind of business that I believe this is spot on for: the local construction company that has to stop all projects or the barber shop that has zero business right now. In the end this is obviously a difficult decision but we are in a crisis where true leadership means thinking beyond one’s own concerns.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

You haven’t incorporated constructive feedback. The Oracles is an invitation-only brain trust comprising the world’s leading entrepreneurs who share their top advice and success strategies to help others grow their business, live a better life and achieve success faster. Remember, when you speak to everyone, you speak to no one.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 26, 2019

Very often, minority racial and ethnic populations have to be innovative by necessity to overcome the barriers constructed by our society. An aspiring entrepreneur with substantial financial support is more likely to be able to access the advice of legal and accounting experts to inform the process of incorporating their business.

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Reforge

JULY 12, 2022

About the Author Natalie Rothfles Natalie Rothfels is an Operator in Residence at Reforge and runs a leadership coaching practice. She has held product leadership roles at Quizlet and Khan Academy and was a classroom teacher before that. For example, they give constructive feedback about how a project was handled.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The leadership experts at Franklin Covey have released the essential guide to transforming into the great manager your team deserves. Covey wrote, “One of the greatest gifts you can give another human being is constructive feedback on a blind spot they never knew they had. Use the words “advice” or “input” instead of “feedback.”

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Gust

AUGUST 26, 2012

But my advice is to start with one, or certainly no more than one in an area of expertise. Telling it straight means having direct discussions that are constructive, respectful, and specific. You then become a contributor to business leadership in the same way your mentor was to you. Mentors are not like lovers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job. There’s a certain way to do this that is constructive and that actually adds to the process rather than causes friction and problems.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management. So we’d love your thoughts on maybe just advice for companies rebuilding their partnership orgs or they’re developing their sophistication on the ELG front.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. Betwixt a placid pond and the high road rests an inn. That is where you shall find me, a humble inn keeper.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Management systems, whether about performance management, or leadership, or healthy teams, or product strategy, or one-on-one interactions, or meetings, or productivity — are like deciding between coding styles. Often there’s a constructive learning inside which you should take to heart, but discard the petulant packaging.

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