Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Critical Functions and Teams (Techstars) - Hardcover

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MATT BLUMBERG is founder and CEO of Bolster, an on-demand executive talent marketplace to help startup CEOs scale their leadership team, themselves, and their board. He was the founder and CEO of Return Path and is the author of Startup CEO, and the blog, StartupCEO.com. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.

PETER M. BIRKELAND is a sociologist, author, and writer who helps people turn ideas into books. www.peterbirkeland.com

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One of the greatest challenges faced by startups is scaling up their teams, themselves, and their boards as their businesses scale, because there isn’t a clear blueprint to follow. Many startup leaders are in leadership roles for the first time, and most startup CEOs don’t know what they don’t know about how to manage and coach each functional executive on the team. There can be lots of trial and error, lots of missteps, and lots of valuable time and money squandered as companies scale.

Matt Blumberg and his team understand the scaling challenges faced by startup executives—they’ve been there and done that multiple times over multiple decades. Along the way they learned what worked and what didn’t work, and they share their lessons learned in Startup CXO.

Startup CXO will help CEOs and each primary functional leader in a company (heads of sales, marketing, HR, technology, product, finance, business development, and privacy) understand:

• How their function scales
• What to anticipate as they scale
• What obstacles prevent scaling
• How to collaborate effectively with other functions

With the help of Startup CXO, functional leaders, CEOs, Board members, and investors can pinpoint areas of weakness and turn those into strengths. Each functional section is written by a long-time practitioner of that function and also has a “CEO to CEO Advice” summary from Blumberg on what great looks like for that CXO, signs your CXO isn’t scaling, and how to engage with your CXO.

As an added bonus, Startup CXO explores fractional roles—the future of executive work. Written by leading practitioners, each function is covered with useful tips on how to be a successful fractional executive and from a startup’s perspective, what to look for in hiring and managing fractional executives.

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One of the greatest challenges faced by startups is scaling up their teams, themselves, and their boards as their businesses scale, because there isn't a clear blueprint to follow. Many startup leaders are in leadership roles for the first time, and most startup CEOs don't know what they don't know about how to manage and coach each functional executive on the team. There can be lots of trial and error, lots of missteps, and lots of valuable time and money squandered as companies scale.

Matt Blumberg and his team understand the scaling challenges faced by startup executives--they've been there and done that multiple times over multiple decades. Along the way they learned what worked and what didn't work, and they share their lessons learned in Startup CXO.

Startup CXO will help CEOs and each primary functional leader in a company (heads of sales, marketing, HR, technology, product, finance, business development, and privacy) understand:

• How their function scales
• What to anticipate as they scale
• What obstacles prevent scaling
• How to collaborate effectively with other functions

With the help of Startup CXO, functional leaders, CEOs, Board members, and investors can pinpoint areas of weakness and turn those into strengths. Each functional section is written by a long-time practitioner of that function and also has a "CEO to CEO Advice" summary from Blumberg on what great looks like for that CXO, signs your CXO isn't scaling, and how to engage with your CXO.

As an added bonus, Startup CXO explores fractional roles--the future of executive work. Written by leading practitioners, each function is covered with useful tips on how to be a successful fractional executive and from a startup's perspective, what to look for in hiring and managing fractional executives.