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

APRIL 29, 2020

Focus on Growth and Innovation. For the future, focus on business model innovation. If your business has taken a beating given the sector that you are in, is it possible to innovate out of this crisis? Primarily, there are three levels of innovation: incremental, sustaining and disruptive.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Ive been grateful to see that support firsthand throughout my careerwhether through the passage of the JOBS Act , the creation of Opportunity Zones , or, most recently, the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) initiative. were on the platform. Based in Washington, D.C., Take Detroit, for example.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

Innovating AI research and advancing entrepreneurship skills in Colombia By Jewelle Saunders “What motivates me in everything that I do is the movement that comes with curiosity,” says Jonathan Puerta Pereira , a 2021 YLAI Fellow. on Innovation & Technology Policy with a focus on artificial intelligence.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The post Summiting Mount Kilimanjaro: A Lesson in Self-Leadership appeared first on THE BLOG. Miranda Naiman is founder and managing partner of Empower , a Tanzanian consulting firm that passionately provides talent, advisory and insight services to clients across Africa.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 19, 2022

Julie and her team have done a tremendous job of taking an idea and making it a reality and I am incredibly grateful for her leadership. It is quickly becoming the largest employer in NYC and is bringing much-needed innovation to the city, state, and world. The tech sector finds itself at an interesting moment in NYC.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

What changed in your work or leadership? Are you assigning tasks or clarifying responsibilities? Collins provides specific examples of how Southwest Airlines and other top-performing companies use responsibility-based cultures to achieve extraordinary results. Have you experienced the shift from task-orientation to responsibility-orientation?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Next NJ Program and AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will increase AI investment and catalyze groundbreaking research TRENTON, N.J. The AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will provide $3.8 For more information, including additional eligibility requirements, click here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2020

In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. Here, he explains what an Innovation Stack is, plus what makes a real entrepreneur. . What is an Innovation Stack? If you succeed, you have an Innovation Stack.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

.” I don’t entirely agree with that and my experience with it has been different, but it brings up an incredibly important topic about leadership. I like to keep things simple and in my simple mind, leadership comes in two flavors, visionary leadership and operational leadership. It will be an incredible trip.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

One person can’t shoulder all of these tasks and responsibilities successfully, which is why startup CEOs need to assemble strong leadership team that they can lean on during difficult times. Traits to Look for When Hiring Your Leadership Team. I cannot imagine confronting the coronavirus crisis without my leadership team by my side.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

Building Your Self-Correction Toolkit Based on Collins’s principles and my experience, here are tools to build self-correction into your leadership: 1. Learn More For more on building self-correction into your leadership, see Chapter 9 in BE 2.0, particularly pages 140-147 where Collins discusses the power of facing reality.

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Innovation gears icon with network connection on metal texture background. Innovative technology in science and industrial concept. Lots of people think the answer is: lock the senior leadership in conference rooms for months of meetings, creating vast piles of scenarios and slide decks. Hand holding light bulb and cog inside.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us. If a society shuns people for TRYING you discourage people from creating truly breakthrough innovation out of fear of failure. Now they are partners.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

His e-commerce coffee company is unlike many others in its innovations and in its respect of diversity in the world of specialty coffee. The post Honoring a family coffee trade with new innovations appeared first on Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

Evolve your leadership : Great leaders consistently manage themselves out of the job. One-on-Ones and Feedback Structure your 1:1s : Use a four-part format covering performance, relationships, leadership, and innovation. Design intentionally : Make sure you’re designing your organization with a span of control in mind.

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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. This lesson has influenced my leadership style profoundly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The progress women in leadership have made over the past decade is energizing and generates hope and excitement for the future of female entrepreneurs. Working in wine during the financial crisis of 2008, I quickly noticed the opportunity to innovate within the alcohol logistics industry alongside my business colleague, Tim Elenteny.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 5, 2019

YLAI Network members Juliana Nieva de Castillo from Tucumán, Argentina and Julio César Bueno Cruz from Cali, Colombia illustrate two forms of social innovation and community support through unique business concepts. Coffee with a Pinch of Social Innovation. Recycling and Design. Este artículo está disponible en español.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Leadership: Enable transformational leadership that can drive sustainable change in the world. We will seize new opportunities to address operational and structural challenges and to gain a leadership position in the market by integrating sustainability into our organizational processes.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Companies can’t sustain their innovation after a founder leaves.” I have seen leadership teams take over great businesses from founders and get them to the next level. I’ve heard it called “moral leadership.” Etsy, where I am Chair of the Board and a large shareholder, is a great example of that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Travel to EO’s annual Global Leadership Conference (GLC), held in Singapore in 2024, featuring full immersion of Learn Arounds , and guest speakers Mo Gawdat and Chatri Sityodtong. Fast-track your leadership journey on the EO Path of Leadership. One of my first EO events was the Global Leadership Conference in Singapore.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2024

I was inspired by the competitors, their presentations, and how much they want to change the world.” — Kate Hancock, EO APAC Bridge “I was most surprised by the sheer determination and innovative spirit of the young entrepreneurs. The depth of learning I gained from the students! It is a competition and a show.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2024

Thousands of member leaders give generously of their time and expertise to help EO connect, inspire, and propel entrepreneurs in their leadership journeys and help move the world forward. Winnie truly exemplifies the true spirit of servant leadership to which all members aspire. ” 3.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2020

Currently, the MillionLives.org leadership team includes about 120 people from 33 countries. The fact that many on the leadership team are entrepreneurs is no surprise. Most entrepreneurs are by their very nature, creative, innovative thinkers,” explains Andy. Although it began with a cohort of HBS students, it quickly expanded.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our mission is to help our customers solve their challenges by making our platform more innovative, transparent, and secure. Now it is Nigeria’s leading business banking provider, processing over 800 million transactions monthly with a total value of over US$17 billion.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2022

It speaks to an illusion of control that will undermine employee productivity, engagement, innovation, retention, and recruitment at Tesla. Such a focus on visibility in the office speaks to a highly traditionalist leadership mindset underpinned by the illusion of control. False assumptions drive mandates.

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Source Link

AUGUST 9, 2021

Both communities recently participated in NLC’s City Innovation Ecosystems (CIE) program, offered in partnership with and support from the Kauffman Foundation. The leadership and commitment in communities is integral to the success of these initiatives,” said Dara Macan, SourceLink® national director of partnerships & engagement.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

January 3, 2025) The New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) awarded over $500,000 in funding to seven New Jersey startups under the Food and Agriculture Research & Development Pilot Seed Grant Program. TRENTON, N.J.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2021

It includes people from across the country and even from overseas (such as myself), it includes people with different levels of tenure, and it includes members with varying levels of leadership experience. She wants to reconnect with members that she served with in volunteer leadership positions in past years.

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HPA

MARCH 12, 2024

Their investment expertise and strong leadership have propelled the model’s exceptional value, consistently outperforming the market and fostering entrepreneurial successes. The post HPA Announces Key Leadership Promotions in Investment Team first appeared on HPA.

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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.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

The Series A funding round was led by Healthworx , the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst , further solidifying Culina Healths unique approach to addressing one of the countrys most pressing public health issues.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2024

Under the leadership of Governor Wes Moore, Maryland’s Build Our Future Innovation Infrastructure Pilot Program made its first grant to CraniUS , an R&D company focused on groundbreaking diagnostics and treatments for patients with chronic brain disease. The company has raised over $24M to date and a Series B raise is underway.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Nimble leadership, a strategic push, and solid communications. The combination of account growth in key verticals, as well as specialized crisis communications services, was complemented by a nimble leadership mentality and approach to our business operations. The company increased year-over-year revenue by 40+ percent.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It encourages innovation, creativity and a sense of belonging and purpose. These include, for example, having both men and women in leadership or management roles, hiring people from a variety of backgrounds, asking team members to contribute ideas, and respecting those ideas by turning them into action.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2024

At EO’s 2024 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in Singapore, more than 1,800 EO members from 65 countries convened for the opportunity to learn and collaborate.

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