CEO Coach

Gillian and Anne discuss two important tasks every start up must get done in March before Q1 ends. Your books for 2015 are closed, your taxes are done, or shipped of to your tax prep pro, you’ve reviewed progress from last year, and reset your goals, and assessed their early performance, “What’s next?” you ask? […]

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Gillian & Anne discuss why: because taxes do not move your company forward. Things that move your company forward include product design, IT work, marketing, sales, customer service, consumer outreach, etc. Things that don’t, include paying the rent, the taxes, and the phone bill. But they must be done. Since these support tasks take up mindshare – and the bigger the downside risk of NOT tending to the issue, the larger and more insidious the mind share it takes, doing your taxes now will save you tons of time. Plus two more things you absolutely must do right now: tidying up and checking in with your 2016 goals.

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Katherine Hague, founder of Female Funders talks with Gillian and Anne about her mission to find 1000 new women angels investors this year. To that end she hosted a breakfast series in a whirlwind eight-city tour and launched “Angel School” in two versions: one for investors and one for entrepreneurs  to help both get started with angel funding.

She talks about how the gender gap in funding start-ups led her to get involved after her own successful exit from Shoplocket, and her purpose in educating the next generation of women angel investors. Her new book “Funded, the Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Your First Round’ from O’Reilly draws from her experience.

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Josh Maher, president of Seattle Angels talks with Anne about his new book StartUp Wealth - How the Bes Angel Investors Make Money in StartUps. The book reveals how 23 successful investors seek and evaluate opportunities, and most importantly how they think -- certainly of keen interest to any startup CEO. Josh talks about how critical it is to find the right match in an investor, whether data driven or looking for momentum toward the next big thing. His book is available at www.startupwealth.com and on Amazon and other online book sellers.

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Gillian and Anne interview global educator Gail Romero, founder of GLEAN Educational Skills, a 21st century educational platform for businesses and governments around the world, and she also explains how collecting and using data assists companies in expanding. Gail is also one of a handful of gender economists in the world, and discusses the five main reasons women fail in business. Read all about Gail at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gailromero and find her TED talk on women and leadership at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVTKtQJKQGo

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Inspired by a recent keynote by Ken Norton, partner at GoogleVentures at London’s “Mind the Product” conference in Q4 2015, Gillian and Anne discuss thinking big versus incrementally in your start-up. Exploring many historical big misses, such as Kodak and digital photography, they look for reasons and drivers. What are key elements of ‘10X’ leadership? How does ‘10%’ thinking limit your opportunities? Which companies are better suited to shooting the moon?

What’s right for your company?

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You’re a founder. Can you do it all? Well, no, not unless you want to run a really small company. The secret to scaling big is to know when to let go . . . of control, of your job, of your comfort zone. Anne & Gillian discuss issues raised by Molly Graham, who guided both Facebook and Google through rapid expansion, in a First Round Review article “Give Away Your Legos."

The article reads
Being inside a company that’s a rocket ship is really cool. There are so many Legos! You could build anything. At the beginning, as you start to scale, everyone has so many Legos to choose from — they’re doing 10 jobs — and they’re all part of building something important.”
Succeed by letting go and sharing your burdens; a rapidly scaling company is impossible for one person to hold on to. “The only way to move on to move on to building bigger and better things,” says Graham, “you have to give away you job every couple of months.” Gillian and Anne guide you through Molly’s steps to do this as your company grows.

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Gillian and Anne review and detail three essential tasks you must do for your Start-ups business, duties you simply cannot put off if you are to succeed. How have you performed against your goals of last year. What course corrections do you need to make this year? In this episode you will hear how and why to tackle these now. Plus a bonus start-up task that often slips until later in the year, and why this is extremely detrimental to your progress. Spoiler-alert: it’s tedious but necessary.

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Polishing up your crystal ball? Gillian Muessig and Anne Kennedy discuss 2016 predictions for the future of business with help from from 10 notable execs, including Sallie Krawcheck, founder and CEO of Ellevest, and others from such diverse companies as Next Desk, Gild, Sbarro and Naturalicious. The predictions werepresented in a Fast Company article, where 10 leaders tell us what they think the next year has in storefor2016, from more transparency to more streaming video and honesty in marketing.

 

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Gillian Muessig and Anne Kennedy welcome back Kristin Luck, who earlier this year sold Decipher, a market research software firm to Focus Vision Worldwide. Kristin offers some best advice for navigating a successful curse as a woman dealing with VC/PE.

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