Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about “ the politics of startups ” in which I asserted that all companies have politics, which in its purest sense is just about understanding human psychology. I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Building a startup is an exhilarating journey, but the road to success is rarely a solo endeavor. While great ideas can be the catalyst for success, the team behind the idea truly drives a startup forward. Having that support system, especially in the early days of building a startup is important because it’s really hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Maria King’s governance career has focused on supporting and building innovative new businesses, so when she undertook the Institute of Directors ’ Advanced Directors Course (ADC) , she was delighted to see a section on startup governance included. In 2013, she sold her business and decided to get “more involved in governance”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In a mere 10 years as millennials and Generation Z become more prominent the cultural changes they will drive will cause more awareness en masse of: lowering ones carbon footprint. eliminating herbicides & pesticides. eating natural, organic fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs & lettuce year round – even in cold climates.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Each of these represents a significant governmental effort to strengthen American competitiveness by affirming the idea that cities can be renewed and rise again if they develop a vibrant startup culture. Based in Washington, D.C., This discussion is especially meaningful as our country approaches its semi-quincentennial next July.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. So as a startup CEO you constantly have to suspend disbelief. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2023

As an entrepreneur or founder starting a business, you may think of capital as purely monetary. Unfortunately, without a solid grasp of how capital — in its many different forms — can influence a business, too many founders make decisions early on in their companies that have unintended consequences down the line.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

That means that out of nearly $51 billion in funding that startups received over those two years, a comparatively teeny $1.5 Right this very moment, I''m in the process of leading investments in two companies where I had to convince a team with a female founder to take capital. billion went to women-led ventures.". Sounds awful, right?

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting) the Mark This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “ Inspire Inclusion ” — a call to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, in all facets of life, including the innovation economy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2024

At EO’s 2024 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in Singapore, the more than 1,800 attendees from 65 countries sat in on an energetic fireside chat with Chatri Sityodtong , founder and CEO of ONE Championship , the world’s largest martial arts organization. That is the ultimate purpose of ONE.” and more articles from the EO blog.

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. That ticked up to 15.4%

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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. It’s harmful and hurtful to the startup and those that lead it. Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

I saw this Tweet recently by Scott Belsky, co-founder and CEO of Behance. Other times she comes back with even more conviction about the founders, market or products. The same is true at startups. I watch founders who want to get “air cover” for hard decisions by getting too much input from their teams or boards.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. ” The problem wasn’t our systems or employees; it was me.

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500

MAY 22, 2019

500 Startups is excited to announce the latest batch from our Seed Accelerator based in Mexico City. Our latest batch consists of founders from all over Latin America including 6 companies from Mexico, 2 from Chile, 2 from Colombia, and 1 from Argentina. Batch 10’s startups will continue to put in.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Venture capital investors focused on food tech are calling 2023 the year when alternative seafood startups will make notable strides. Within the past year, TechCrunch reported on a number of those investments into startups producing alternatives to traditional seafood. In total, Aqua has raised just over $8 million, Palermo said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Without the right people in the right seats who live by your core values and culture, you won’t be able to deliver to your ideal client. I’ll say it again for emphasis: Ideal employees must live by the company’s core values and culture. And worse, you may only attract less-than-ideal clients. So, how do you fish for ideal employees?

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

It was his mobile productivity startup Acompli (later acquired by Microsoft) which first caught my attention. HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies. I don’t believe that lack of startup experience should rule someone out from a job at a startup.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

That doesn''t mean I have anything against the founder or the investors. But in the private markets, we''ve got "Yay, founders! For the most part, journalists give startups a free pass when venture capital money is raised or when companies that clearly seem to have failed get "acquired". Entreprenuership is awesome!".

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

The book profiles the founder of JetBlue who is apparently classic ADD. I always just figured this was part of my Jewish culture since all Jews seem to love to argue. Startup Lessons' I even wrote about this phenomenon called “ The Urgency Addiction ” which if you have it you may enjoy reading. ” I write.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 29, 2025

Tulikas focus on fostering a culture of innovation not only inspires her team but also ensures customer success, consistently delivering exceptional value and creating substantial improvements for clients. My motivation to launch my startup came from identifying a gap in the market where I believed I could make a real difference.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. And it’s what I believe sets apart the tech startup culture more than any other sector out there.

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OnStartups

MAY 19, 2021

I’ve been thinking about, talking about and working on culture for at least a decade. Not counting the 15 years I spent being mostly clueless about culture in my first startup). I've spent hundreds of hours working with the HubSPot team to create the HubSpot Culture Code deck. Customer Feedback / Culture Feedback.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. Chroma did.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We gathered 50 founders from across the country for 36 hours of connection and candor in Alexandria, VA, and no surprise: We left inspired. We believe place matters, and that there’s no substitute for meeting founders where they are, in the ecosystems they’re building within. Detroit didn’t fit into many investors’ ‘theses.’

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2021

This week our team met with a founder in Singapore via Zoom. In one hour we learned enough from the founder to be able to make a decision on whether or not to invest in the founder’s company. I don’t think we will see founders going back on the road in any material way ever again.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 7, 2022

2022 brought new connections and perspectives as we met with entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, and ecosystem builders on the ground in startup communities across the country. For the sneakerhead, StockX lets you shop what’s trending in current culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

It also demystifies any assumptions that our founders were “puritanical” – they were anything but. If you enjoy travel, language & culture as much as I do then buy all of Bill Bryson’s books and gobble them up. Startup Advice' I know, I know … just read the book). Thank you, Om.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2024

As an entrepreneur, you will cross paths with many fellow founders. Some will inspire you, others will draw inspiration from you, and occasionally you’ll encounter a founder whose every action leaves you utterly astounded. A study of Jill Nelson offers a Master class on what it takes to build a thriving business.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

Two registered dieticians co-founded the health tech startup that has provided over 80,000 telehealth nutrition sessions over four years. health tech startup Culina Health is stepping in to bridge a crucial gap in healthcare. As obesity rates soar in the U.S., population, ensuring that its services are within reach of a broad audience.

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