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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. ” This shift changed everything.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Seth likes to get together with board members every 30 days.

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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

I worked with the board who encouraged me to bring in heavy weights. I was able to hire the former European head of sales for the largest document management player in the world. In our second year of sales we did $5.9 million and our third year we hit $7.7 So we were starting to become a real business. I shot as high as I could.

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For tech firms, the risk of not preparing for leadership changes is huge

TechCrunch

Three out of five respondents said their companies don’t have a documented plan to handle a leadership change, even though, by that same ratio, they acknowledge that a documented plan is the biggest determinant in seamless transitions. But this documented history cannot be a hagiography of the departing CEO.

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6 Strategies for Local Startups to Scale Up Nationally

StartupNation

After completing a $10-million Series A round in March 2021, the startup expanded into Greenville, South Carolina, its fourth market so far. CEO Jonathan Kite said a new automated turn board feature was a significant factor accelerating the company’s success. Most startup founders understandably think they have great ideas.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Bonus point) Don’t let the document get in the way.

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Daily Crunch: After Musk puts it to a vote, 57% of Twitter poll respondents tell him to resign

TechCrunch

First, the company addressed official documents with a DigiLocker integration to the Files app , and said that India’s regulations should provide legal and innovation certainty to firms. Startups and VC. Life as a startup founder is never dull. Amanda has more about the fines and what this means for Epic.

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