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Spectrum Team & Culture Slide Deck
The document outlines a series of upcoming programs focused on knowledge transfer, innovation, and team building for startups and businesses. It emphasizes the importance of team dynamics, company culture, marketing, and innovation as key functions for business success. Additionally, it includes insights from various industry experts on establishing a supportive and effective work environment.
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- 11. Knowledge Transfer SeriesUpcoming Calendar November Incubators, Accelerators and Co-work Space: What’s Right for Me? December Office Hours January Investors, Angels, Venture Capital Crowd Funding February Working with Universities Watch Your Inbox for Upcoming Program Details and Event Announcements
- 12. Paula A. Soileau,CPA CoFounder
- 13. Building A Team •Team starts with YOU • Know thyself • What’s needed (vs who) • How to evaluate others
- 14. • Partner orkey hire • Well-rounded team • Techies and non-techies • Creative compensation/vesting
- 15. Work Culture • Beyondwindow dressing • What you say, don’t say and how you behave • Authenticity – reflects us as individuals
- 16. better hiring decisions www.facebook.com/Affintus www.twitter.com/affintus#affintus www.youtube.com/user/affintus www.affintus.com/blog ©2013 Affintus, LLC
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- 18. Beware of adviceabout successful people and their methods - Scott Adams; WSJ, Saturday @seobrien
- 19. Know what's inthe box Change the World Business Owner Comfortable Living Innovator Product / Market Marketer @seobrien
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- 21. Advanced Manufacturing Clean Energy& Power Technology Corporate Headquarters Data Centers Life Sciences & Biotechnology Multimedia Technology @seobrien
- 22. It defines yourfuture Product / Market Change the World @seobrien
- 23. Product / Marketor Goal Oriented Seed MVP Monetiz Scale e Pivot @seobrien
- 24. Change the World:Philosophy Friends & Family Seed (Angel) Scale (Series A) Monetize (Series B) @seobrien
- 25. To put itbluntly, goals are for losers. That's literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goal—if you reach it at all—feeling as if you were short of your goal. In other words, goal-oriented people exist in a state of nearly continuous failure that they hope will be temporary. @seobrien
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- 27. Passion, purpose, story, branding... Marketing Culturedefines your approach to attracting and retaining: 1. Employees 2. Partners 3. Customers 4. Investors @seobrien
- 28. If you're creative,you have to keep innovating bigger! - whurley; Chaotic Moon @seobrien
- 29. Innovation is about conveyingyour imagination to someone else. - whurley; Chaotic Moon @seobrien
- 30. Because the purposeof business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business @seobrien
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- 32. Team and Culture Fromthe perspective of a venture investor
- 33. 9 quick points ✤ 3on how we pick ✤ 3 on culture formation ✤ 3 on the culture of Techstars
- 34. Selection ✤ Team, Team, Market,Product, Traction ✤ Team dysfunction is heart disease ✤ Traction
- 35. Culture Formation ✤ In the beginning,it’s all founders ✤ Scaling either dilutes or strengthens ✤ Startups are pressure cookers
- 36. Techstars DNA ✤ Give first ✤ Mentor andbe mentored ✤ The long long term
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- 38. Culture and TeamBuilding Casey Amidon
- 39. Start up phase: ◦Culture of the start up is the founders High growth/expansion phase (current): ◦ Focus on mission – make sure everything you do everyday is working toward that mission. ◦ Define your core values, get buy-in from everyone, and stick to them. ◦ Admit openly where there are setbacks or failures – this builds trust. Mature Business (future ideal): ◦ Core values are ingrained in company culture ◦ Climate of trust and openness throughout the organization
- 40. Work hard, playhard. One team Partners in success Exceptional is normal Innovating at DI Speed Explore the impossible. Open doors, open minds Change Agents Fueled by passion Do the right thing
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