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  • CEO Essentials,  Management

    The Cost of Context Switching

    Jen Baird / March 27, 2021

    Leading a startup that depends on inventing new technology requires mastering the balance of context switching. Too much kills innovation. Too little means losing touch with what is essential

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    Essential Entrepreneurial Enabler: Herding Cats

    October 30, 2021

    Discerning Signals in the Noise

    April 6, 2024

    Striving for Highest Best Use

    June 25, 2022
  • Leadership,  Team Building

    Intentionally Empowering Each Other

    Jen Baird / March 20, 2021

    One of the great aspects of being part of a high-performing team is how each member of the team intentionally contributes to empowering each other, which elevates both our collective process and our combined results.

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    Balancing Macro and Micro Elements

    November 9, 2024

    Opportunity Costs

    July 29, 2023

    Focus. Execute. Panic is Unhelpful.

    January 2, 2021
  • CEO Essentials,  Leadership

    Driving for Speed with Finesse

    Jen Baird / March 13, 2021

    Speed is one of the great advantages of small, talented, focused startup teams – and the driver of the racing startup vehicle is the CEO. Yet like racing, it is essential to drive with finesse to maximize speed while not spinning out of control.

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    Funding Foundations

    September 2, 2023

    Keeping Eyes on Your North Star

    February 5, 2022

    Making Bets

    September 9, 2023
  • Product Development,  Regulatory,  Relationships

    The FDA Are People, Too.

    Jen Baird / March 6, 2021

    Government agencies seem like monolithic entities governed by complex rules that are hard to relate to. Still, under that seemingly impenetrable exterior, it helps to remember that, just like your startup, the agency is made up of people, too.

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    IP Licensing for a Spinout Startup

    March 11, 2023

    Keys to Customer Discovery

    June 3, 2023

    The Preeminence of the Customers’ Problem

    December 10, 2022

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