'Imposter Syndrome' Holds Back Entrepreneurial Women
Many women who want to grow their businesses get in their own way because of how they see themselves. Here's how they can stop selling themselves short.
Many women who want to grow their businesses get in their own way because of how they see themselves. Here's how they can stop selling themselves short.
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No a**hole rule by Robert Sutton
This video offers an overview of Robert Sutton's Harvard Business Review article and book titled: "The No A**hole Rule." It reminds us about the need to be civil in the workplace and not to tolerate bad behavior. From an entrepreneurship standpoint, it highlights the need for good leadership and the importance of creating an organizational environment that brings out the best in people.
Strong family relationships are good for business, but being too insular will blind the family to great ideas from the outside and actually hurt return on equity.
The enemy forced him to innovate quickly when lives depended on it. The strategy, which draws on Lean Startup principles: shorter cycle times and half-done products that could be finished and deployed quickly.
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VCs typically require that founders commit full time to their ventures before investing. Provocative research in this article on hybrid entrepreneurship by Joe Raffiee and Jie Feng report lower failure rates for firms started by founders who are employees than firms started by individuals who start firms after leaving a job.
Hypothesis driven entrepreneurship sits at the heart of the Lean Startup framework. In this sample of 116 Italian startups, when entrepreneurs rigorously articulated their hypotheses, and tested them systematically, they performed better, were more likely to pivot, and survived longer.
Supported by the Richard M Schulze Family Foundation