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14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders

Startup Blogpost

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. I’ve worked with many startup founders. ” This struck a chord.

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High Performing Virtual Teams Have 8 Key Attributes

Gust

Experts on this subject, including Yael Zofi, in her book, “ A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams ,” has identified eight key characteristics of high-performing virtual teams that I have observed, and every startup founder should understand and enable: Members exhibit a global mindset – they look outward, not inward.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

You also need to establish a culture of sharing and collegiality. It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community. Startup founders always need help. Mayors don’t build startup cities. You need both.

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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

Hunter Walk

HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies. Especially if, say, it’s someone who has only done startups making the case they now want to be at a BigCo, or even more commonly, the BigCo person wanting to join a startup. At some point I noticed a change in our culture.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Would you choose someone with great skills but not a cultural fit?

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The hidden cost of being a founder

TechCrunch

James Sutcliffe is the founder and CEO of The Founding Network , a collaboration platform for high-growth founders. If I were to pick one thing that unites the global tech scene in terms of culture I would point to the respect and reverence accorded to startup founders. Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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