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

Paul G. Silva

Teaching Responsibility Thinking to Startup Founders Later, at Launch413, I helped startup founders navigate their growth journey. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. One of our most powerful tools was teaching them to distinguish between tasks and responsibilities.

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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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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital. In France in some ways it was worse because if you failed as a startup founder you shouldered personal liabilities that don’t exist in the US under our bankruptcy laws.

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Thoughts on: From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine

Paul G. Silva

Alexander Osterwalder and the team at Strategizer published a small eBook chock-full of best practices on corporate innovation called From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine. Strategizer is likely one of the top innovation consultants out there. So too with innovation.

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

Both Sides of the Table

I wish all of them well and feel confident that anybody employed at one of the most innovative companies of the past 10 years will land on his or her feet. And I actually think we could learn a lot from public investors even if we don’t always feel culturally aligned. So what can we learn from this? Others will follow.

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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community

Revolution

Since 2010, roughly a dozen venture-backed unicorns have emerged in and around Salt Lake, in no small part because Qualtrics put the city on the map for founders and VCs. When Qualtrics was acquired by SAP for $8 billion, the city saw itself more authentically as a seedbed of innovation. as do manufacturing workers.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .