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14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders

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14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders To gain a deeper understanding of effective leadership, we asked startup founders and CEOs to share the most valuable lessons they’ve learned from successful entrepreneurs. This was great advice received from the CEO of a multi-million-dollar start-up.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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.” What I’ve observed is that the email generation has shifted cultural norms. ” Culturally people know that it’s not acceptable to text or call you on your cell phone unless they know you. I will even take to emailing people I don’t know offering small bits of advice. I try to be helpful.

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“I will say that a lot of tension arose from Googler’s expectations that the company’s culture had to be exactly the same as what it was when the company was one fifth the size” Former GOOG & MSFT executive (and multiple time founder) Javier Soltero on Career Advice, Big Company Culture, and Startup Hiring Tips

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HW: I’m sure you get hit up for career advice all the time. JS: The most general yet useful bit of career advice I often give is for people to look at the progression of their career as a story, and do their best to make the story compelling. HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies.

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Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one

TechCrunch

Having accessibility experts on your team to provide advice and guidance is a great start. Being proactive about your hires and making sure they will contribute to a culture of accessibility and inclusion will save you major headaches. Startups have an advantage here: They do not bear years of inaccessible baggage.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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And trust me when I tell you that 90%+ of the people can’t wake up every day with the uncertainties and insecurities that startup founders face. Most employees want cruising altitude, most founders live in take off mode. Startup Advice' ” The details is the sausage factory that nobody really wants.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Would you choose someone with great skills but not a cultural fit? We both agreed that, with all things being equal, cultural match is must. They seem to value openness, integrity and a realistic perspective of your business. Not a chance.

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What went wrong at Techstars

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Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.