StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

For instance, Sleep Advisor , an independently published, reader-supported magazine, curates tips on products and sleep. Brides and families alike can use the app to meet with their dedicated vendor team, design vision boards, and manage guest lists. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture. A great leader knows when there are team rivalries that need to be settled and when some team members need to be let go because they are breeding a bad culture internally. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo !

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

How will this affect our team and culture? . Take Resumes with a Grain of Salt—Hire for Attitude and Train for Skills Any company can offer the greatest product or service in the world, but it can only be executed by having the right people on board. How will it affect our core business and focus? Will this opportunity make us better?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

There are a few steps you can take to foster transparency, as suggested by Forbes magazine and the Ken Blanchard Companies. To avoid a culture of gossip in your company, it is important to foster open communication between those in leadership and employees. Solidify your business’s core values. Share information. Be consistent.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of my experience is in B2B SaaS, so this advice is tailored to founders in a similar space: #1 Hire an experienced leadership team to define the culture and vision A brand new startup only has one asset?—?the This cultural interview is critical. the people in the room.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

A partner can be a great sounding board as well. Not a mentor, not a paid consultant but a sounding board who’s directly invested into the growth of YOUR (and their) business. Do they have the same cultural fit as you? Your spouse might also be a great sounding board for you in some key business decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It was also voted by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 novels of all time. And don’t just trust me.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 12, 2018

Yes, a good mentor or board can help, especially when they have the right experience, but not quite in the same way that a co-founder can. Their strategy is more robust, the culture is stronger, and the gaps are diminished. The post The pros and cons of having co-founders appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The raise adds three new members to the board, including Haun, a16z’s Arianna Simpson and Kleiner Perkins’s Ilya Fushman. They join an expansive board with some major names, including Brady, Apple’s Eddy Cue, FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and artist Abel Tesfaye, also known as The Weeknd.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Activate the minds and attitudes of your employees to cultivate a workplace culture that fuels continuous innovation and initiative. Hire the right and effective people on board. To achieve that, you must ensure the following- . Focus on leveraging everyone’s strengths and desires to contribute. Form Strategic Partnership.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

make sure you have a strong company culture for them to enter into. . What we want to do is we want to build a team around the culture. There are also penalties that businesses can face if other legal documents aren’t filled out properly when a hire comes on board. All you need to do now is . fill out the right business forms,

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

She’s currently a board member of Human Co, Slice, and Milk Bar. Kat would never put up with people hurting the culture or the company. Powerful discussion about family, dealing with stress, self-care and more. Kat Cole is the former President of Focus Brands, which includes such brands as Auntie Annes, Cinnabon, and more.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 29, 2024

A shareholders’ agreement should outline who can make different types of decisions so you don’t get stuck (eg, CEO vs board of directors vs shareholders). Natalie Fennell is a cofounder of On Your Terms The post Why business prenups (aka Shareholders’ Agreements) are essential appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In the process, he helped to create a culture in early twentieth-century Durham so entrepreneurial that it became known as the “Black Wall Street.”. John Merrick rose from slavery to found the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the largest black-owned businesses in the United States.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

They could share these ideas on how to transition to remote work because they build a culture of open communication. They were telling customers that the decline was across the board. If it was not doing these, the company would not have transitioned to remote working as fast as it did. In her own work, Kate reflects these practices.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Ensure your NAP is consistent across the board. Knowing your audience and showing that you understand their local culture will help get you more customers; targeting keywords is a great way to do this. Their title, headers, and body copy all include the location, which tells the search engine where they are.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2018

A few of my contractors came on board full-time, ready to engage with a team face-to-face. His work has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, CBS MoneyWatch, and TIME Magazine. While a few freelancers turned into long-term contractors, I didn’t have any full-time employees. Written for EO by Daniel Wesley. You can find him on Twitter.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2016

This weekend the New York Times Magazine published the annual Work Issue, a compendium of 9 articles reimagining the modern workplace. The cultural impact and productivity impact has been meaningful. Most importantly about all these articles, they ask more questions than they answer.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant. This drew the attention away from companies in the space that weren’t trying to be anything but what they are—cultures that employees have very low expectations of. I don’t think Audrey was particularly well supported by her high-profile board members.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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