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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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How I Went from Startup Founder to Leader of a Growing Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

All of your core competencies must be process-driven so they can be optimized to enable the business to innovate and drive profitability. Floyd DePalma is the Founder and CEO of DePalma Studios, a UX agency that builds applications people love to use. You can’t grow a business that way. He is also an EO Nashville member. .

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Investing in a More Inclusive Innovation Economy

Revolution

We sourced and received applications from hundreds of Black, high-growth startup founders from all over the country and held workshops and discussions about the challenges they face, all of which culminated in a virtual pitch competition.

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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.

Startup founders always need help. What I would say isn’t as important—for one, government intervention directly into the startup community. Mayors don’t build startup cities. Qualified people need to be willing to help—and not just help their friends. They can’t make a place a “bitcoin city”.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. It enables women on a budget to be able to get new outfits without outlaying tons of money to buy them first hand. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

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Advanced tax strategies for startup founders

TechCrunch

This strategy enables the founder to minimize their estate tax exposure by transferring wealth outside of their estate, specifically without using any lifetime gift exemption or being subject to gift tax. Grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT). Intentionally defective grantor trust (IDGT).