Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business (Techstars)

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John Wiley & Sons, 4 ago 2020 - 480 pagine

You’re only a startup CEO once. Do it well with Startup CEO, a "master class in building a business."
—Dick Costolo, Former CEO, Twitter

Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it’s difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you’re likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don’t have any control over outcomes.

Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees.

Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's 20-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face.

You'll learn:

  • How to tell your story to new hires, investors, and customers for greater alignment
  • How to create a values-based culture for speed and engagement
  • How to create business and personal operating systems so that you can balance your life and grow your company at the same time
  • How to develop, lead, and leverage your board of directors for greater impact
  • How to ensure that your company is bought, not sold, when you exit

Startup CEO is the field guide every CEO needs throughout the growth of their company.

 

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Sommario

The Importance of Authentic Leadership
3
Dream the Possible Dream
13
Defining and Testing the Story
21
Telling the Story to Your Investors
31
Telling the Story to Your Team
39
Revising the Story
49
Bringing the Story to Life
59
Fielding a Great Team
71
Competition
265
Failure
269
Building and Leading a Board of Directors
277
The Value of a Good Board
279
Building Your Board
283
Board Meeting Materials
293
Running Effective Board Meetings
297
NonBoard Meeting Time
305

The CEO as Functional Supervisor
83
Crafting Your Companys Culture
89
The Hiring Challenge
99
Promoting
133
Firing When Its Not Working
153
Creating a Company Operating System
163
The Good the Bad and the Ugly of Financing
185
When and How to Raise Money
195
Forecasting and Budgeting
201
Collecting Data
209
Managing in Tough Times
215
Meeting Routines
223
Driving Alignment
233
Have You Learned Your Lesson?
239
Going Global
247
The Role of MA
255
Decision Making and the Board
309
Working with the Board on Your Compensation and Review
315
Serving on Other Boards
321
Managing Yourself So You Can Manage Others
329
Creating a Personal Operating System
331
Working with an Executive Assistant
339
Working with a Coach
345
The Importance of Peer Groups
351
Staying Fresh
355
Your Family
367
Traveling
375
A Note on Exits
387
Preparing Your Company for an Exit
397
The Sale Process
403
Transition and Integration
415

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Informazioni sull'autore (2020)

Matt Blumberg founded Return Path in 1999, grew it to 500 employees and $100 million in revenues, and sold it to Validity in 2019. Matt is chair of Path Forward, a nonprofit that helps mothers and caregivers reenter the workforce. He is creating his next startup and writing a companion volume to Startup CEO.

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloStartup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business (Techstars)
AutoreMatt Blumberg
Edizione2
EditoreJohn Wiley & Sons, 2020
ISBN1119723663, 9781119723660
Lunghezza480 pagine
  
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