Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. ” I don’t love that culture. It was also used as a project management tool & document storage system for the largest private bank in Europe who even stored images of their bank vaults on our servers. And that burned through cash too quickly trying.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. You want to proactively manage the order in which people access information and focus their attention on a few key documents that they can return to when they fall down a rabbit hole. An elegant strategy memo is your most important document.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Remote work is the new professional status quo, and it demands that companies change the way they work for good by managing emotional culture. We learn a lot from each other from a cultural standpoint. What is emotional culture? A healthy emotional culture is foundational to a startup’s existence. Shutterstock.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. I was stuck in startup culture and he was stuck in big company culture and their was a chasm between us that couldn’t be rectified. But the truth is that he was right about the need to for us to change as we grew and I think this happens at a lot of startups.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

She was raised with a love for her cultural heritage, appreciating the charming indigenous traditions and the beautiful artwork. A cultural heritage uncovered. Their cultural heritage of handcrafted materials was being lost. Importance of a nation’s cultural heritage. The Cutarras of Panama ). The Cutarras of Panama ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. They don’t create a culture of punishment for mistakes. Good enough isn’t. But here’s the thing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

As a result, it opens up opportunities for growth, innovation, adaptability, and a strong culture. Enhanced communication My team now collaborates more effectively, leading to a stronger culture and better project execution with improved outcomes and performance. A few of the most impactful benefits I’ve realized are: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Meanwhile, the benefits of in-person onboarding are also notable: Employees gain a better sense of company culture from the start More opportunities to bond with coworkers The ability to ask additional questions by simply walking over to a colleague The company being able to physically see how the onboarding process is going.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 5, 2024

Done right, it seamlessly integrates incoming talent into your company’s culture and ongoing operations. A barrage of documents and manuals can be overwhelming — and, let’s be honest, they’re not the most digestible type of content you can put in front of new remote hires. Try to conduct regular video audits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

Just as documented in this awesome film “ Riding Giants ,” when Jeff Clark first discovered Mavericks (one of the most famous and dangerous surfing spots in the world) he surfed it for years without telling anybody. I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams. Well, you have to do that, too.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2020

In Indian culture, it is very common to take on a new name. From a Western perspective, it sounds strange, but it is a core element of Indian culture. In the Sikh culture, this means “The Happy King.”. It allowed me to accept my culture and embrace my true identity. Culture-Bashing. Did we stand up for ourselves?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. “You have to pick a side, you’re either office culture or ‘cloud culture.’”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We realised that by thinking “agile” we were able to introduce it to almost every aspect of our business—whether it’s client communication, document control, data storage, more focused sales or better productivity from employees. Every organization must optimize and tightly control certain operations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So, make a point to check in with your salespeople on a regular basis, and document your findings so you can pick up on patterns in your customers’ comments. The pandemic and 2020 did a number on businesses throughout the world, but those that made it to the other side did so because they maintained a culture of openness and innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

After all, the resume is a document that primarily exists to tell employers about a person’s previous experience. Assessing a person’s character, demeanor, skills and cultural fit can give you a better picture of who they are as an employee—not just who they want you to think they are. The best strategy is to mix approaches.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

I always just figured this was part of my Jewish culture since all Jews seem to love to argue. So I might have to write a document, complete a spreadsheet, handle a negotiation or plan an event but somebody else is telling me when each task is due and we both hold me accountable for my work outputs. This is a help in itself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2020

Microsoft Teams, a platform that allows users to share documents, send messages and chat over video saw a 500 percent uptick in conference calls. She enjoys informing readers about topics spanning industries such as technology, business, finance, culture, wellness, hospitality and tourism.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The culture is different, the skills required are different, and the experience from one may be the exact opposite of what you need for the other. Well defined and well documented processes don’t exist to guide you. The job of a big-company executive is very different from the job of a small-company executive.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

To address the core challenges of remote work and to bolster employee efficiency and engagement, businesses can utilize the following approaches: Building an authentic work culture. Building An Authentic Work Culture. Remote work culture must be a people-first culture. Ensuring undisputed means of communication.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. We’ve experimented a lot: strategy docs, all-hands, documenting our 5Ss (the five most important initiatives across the company), and OKRs. What is Faire’s culture? Our culture can be described by our five values.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2023

Depending on the role, there are modules of about an hour long: Coding, System Architecture, Program Management, People Management, Cultural Add and so on. There would be around 3 or 4 modules probing job required skills plus a session probing cultural add and soft skills. Is it a culture add?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 28, 2016

Document lines of authority, roles, responsibilities and job descriptions with measurable accountabilities. Employees notice if the company’s finances are used for personal pleasure, which creates an unhealthy business culture. Have a plan to deal with family discord.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Under the proposed changes, venture capital firms and government-recognized startup accelerators will play a key role in assessing applicants’ business plans and issuing preliminary documents.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

They hangout with the same people they grew up with and haven’t ventured much past the world that mainstream media and pop culture has served to them via the broadcasted silver platter of TV. —they’re the ones who fell into the most routine.

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

Was Docusign just a place to get electronic signatures done, or could it have more tentacles into document-management systems across a variety of sectors? But over that five year period, signing documents online turned out to be a very important and profitable product feature, to the tune over $10B in market value.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2024

A vision board is a great way to document your goals for the year and keep those objectives front of mind. Contributed by Robert Glazer , a former EO Boston member who is the founder and chairman of the board of Acceleration Partners , a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

They redact the documents and store the original in a safe spot where only a few people have access. Now, if somebody gets access to the redacted document, it’s simply not that interesting anymore because all of the most important data — at least for the hacker — isn’t in it.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The best companies and cultures seem to have figured out this balance over time despite scale – but it is hard. The push back usually boiled down to some version of: “We have this great plan that we spent a number of weeks documenting, socializing, and cascading through the organization. I am going to look stupid.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In a remote setting, dispersed or disorganized documents only brings confusion. That’s why standardization should pervade all your processes, including document management. All daily interactions should be as practical as possible; know that not every point of discussion has to turn into a meeting, it can just be a task item in Asana.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Mergers and acquisitions are notoriously tricky to navigate from a leadership and culture perspective. He’d actually drafted a similar document outlining his view of success if we were to join forces. For example, Auth0’s collaborative culture has already helped Okta reignite its startup spirit.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The company said its APIs verify personal documents and information by searching in public and private databases “quickly and pursuant to the compliance rules.” Plus, each citizen can be issued a different RG document in each state. Fraud prevention platform Sift raises $50M at over $1B valuation, eyes acquisitions.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

From fostering a culture of trust to assigning clear task ownership, explore the diverse strategies and tools in these fourteen responses that can help ensure your team stays on track. The best way to ensure this accountability is by creating a culture of trust and reliability among employees.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Its technology creates tutorials by recording a users’ workflow — actions, links to pages, URLs and screenshots — and turns that into step-by-step documentation with a video. It can also change the company’s culture when it rewards people to share knowledge. That is powerful.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative. These three key documents should do the heavy lifting of capturing attention and communicating information across the partnership with high fidelity.

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StartupNation

MARCH 8, 2021

Today is International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. If you’re a solopreneur creating these documents for the first time, make sure they’re inclusive from the start. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

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