Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Here are some quick guidelines on what I think it takes to build a sense of leadership: 1.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Next NJ Program and AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will increase AI investment and catalyze groundbreaking research TRENTON, N.J. New Jerseys continued investment in the sectors of the future will pay dividends for generations to come, setting the Garden State on a path of economic strength and prosperity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. So what gives?

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

Facing Reality Just in Time: The River Valley Investors Story After running the River Valley Investors (RVI) angel group for 15 years, I watched as attendance dwindled and investment activity slowed to concerning levels. Learn More For more on building self-correction into your leadership, see Chapter 9 in BE 2.0,

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 9, 2021

When you combine great leadership with a strong board of directors, the likelihood of a successful outcome for a business increases by an order of magnitude. As members of the board, they occupy leadership positions. While that leadership is not always explicit, it can manifest itself in many ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I have been writing a series on how startup boards get selected, who sits on them and what to avoid. I started this series in part to help entrepreneurs but also to help newer investors because I’ve know with so many new companies you have so many new board members and many people are trying to figure out there respective roles.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In support of military Veteran-founded startups, the Fund focuses on space, AI, and cybersecurity leveraging a veteran’s leadership. Miliary veterans possess attributes, experience, and skills that can be well-applied to entrepreneurship through leadership and knowledge of technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2024

Thousands of member leaders give generously of their time and expertise to help EO connect, inspire, and propel entrepreneurs in their leadership journeys and help move the world forward. Winnie truly exemplifies the true spirit of servant leadership to which all members aspire.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

He said that when talking with the board and with investors he realized that he was no longer visionary in this particular field and certainly no longer passionate about it. When that happens it is no longer acceptable to be the founder on the board trying to reinvent yourself. Leadership – It’s hard to be a real leader.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Two reasons: One, they had no other real choice.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. This post sets out how I believe founders (and investors) should think about independent board members having worked with many of them for the past 20 years. The board is where large equity investors get their representation.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Board of Directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why Invest? And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer. In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage. Why Invest? And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. EQ and Team Leadership? Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. Now you’re talking.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

During my career — spanning entrepreneurship, academia, arts management and venture capital — I’ve learned the importance of female leadership in contributing to successful outcomes. Startups received an unprecedented amount of financial investment during the pandemic, yet female founders lost ground. Investing in diversity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Fred Wilson also wrote on a similar topic in his usual more succinct manner , with a great quote being: “One thing I know for sure is that those who advise and invest in startups cannot and should not meddle in the day to day decision making. But overriding sales leadership is as destructive as overriding product management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Travel to EO’s annual Global Leadership Conference (GLC), held in Singapore in 2024, featuring full immersion of Learn Arounds , and guest speakers Mo Gawdat and Chatri Sityodtong. Fast-track your leadership journey on the EO Path of Leadership. One of my first EO events was the Global Leadership Conference in Singapore.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In almost thirty five years of working on boards, the hardest decisions I have had to make involve removing the CEO. You must act and replace the failed CEO with whomever is the best option in that moment and work with the new CEO to address the challenges facing the company, many a result of the failed CEO’s poor leadership.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Breaking the “Impossible” at VVM When I was at Valley Venture Mentors, we set this BHAG: “In ten years, catalyze entrepreneurs to change the economy of Western Massachusetts by generating $1 billion in cumulative revenue and investment.” ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Seriously, this happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

Convening with CEO and co-founder Ryan Simonetti By Steve Murray and Patrick Conroy , Partners at Revolution Growth Convene’s London location at 22 Bishopsgate In 2018, Revolution Growth led an investment in Convene , an emerging leader in flexible work, meetings and events, and premium venues.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We share our board meeting decks and month-end financials with everyone in the organization, and we expect them to engage with this information and ask questions,” says Odiaka Gonzalez, VP of People and Operations with Global Citizen Year , a nonprofit organization that equips young people to create meaningful impact on global issues. “We

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5 In conjunction with the funding, Mercury also announced an expansion of its board of directors, including the appointment of four new members. billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced. Many entrepreneurs struggle with their setbacks. Many become bitter at investors or circumstances. That’s true.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By I approached several EO women colleagues and nCourage Investment Group was born. I also love seeing women introduced to the world of early-stage investing.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 3, 2024

” Embracing the transformative power of generosity, Alex Yastrebenetsky, an EO Cincinnati member who inspired us with his thought leadership in Want to Change Lives? It takes a village of people investing their hearts, love, souls, and time to create success. No matter how hard we work, success is a communal effort.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Uniqconn (CEO Kim Young-dong) , which develops high-speed semiconductor connectivity solutions, succeeded in attracting pre-A investment of 4.5 Now, just over a year after its founding, the company is growing rapidly, attracting investment, and even establishing a Chinese branch last April. billion won in September 2023.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The qualitative data will guide your senior leadership team on how to react to the quantitative data. How does your manager’s leadership style impact on your productivity? If your company isn’t ready to invest in software or iPads for your team, consider a lower-tech approach. But don’t obsess about your scores.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 3, 2024

Whether your chapter holds regular strategy summits (like EO Cape Town, photo above) or is considering doing so, here are three things the most successful summits can do for your leadership board—all of which create a remarkable ripple effect across membership as a whole. The other 99 percent? Alignment.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” But “what is wrong with tech investing today?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. It’s why when I’m evaluating an investment I often ask the CEO lots of detailed questions about all parts of their business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Showing up at the office at 7am and leaving at 8pm at night for the sake of being in the office won’t inspire our employees if we don’t invest focused, quality time in one-on-one conversations with them to better understand their values— their needs. Our kids and our teams can feel that lack of personal investment.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Good businesses with product market fit, positive unit economics, and strong leadership teams will raise capital although it will be at the new normal in terms of valuation. I believe founders and CEOS and Boards should take the pain of a new valuation (flat, down, whatever) over structure.

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