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Building the Foundations of a Startup Team Culture

An in-depth tutorial and set of worksheets to help startup leaders establish a positive culture from day one is now available.

Is your startup culture ready to scale as you grow? Have you defined your company’s mission, core beliefs, guiding principles and values from the start? While your culture can seem less important than other areas to address, such as your go-to-market strategy, there are a set of proven practices startup leaders can deploy to optimize the workplace culture and employee performance. 

“Building the Foundations of a Startup Team Culture” is now available and features an in-depth tutorial and set of worksheets founders and founding teams can use to establish a positive culture from day one. 

This compendium of resources was developed as a collaboration between Enspira and Primary Venture Partners, an early-stage VC firm, who collectively bring years of experience working with start-up and early-stage firms.

Check out the essential resources, worksheets and tools here

You’ll find practical and essential resources that cover:

  • Why founding teams need to consider culture from the start.
  • What ‘vision & values’ entail, and how to establish it.
  • Putting a point on your mission (purpose).
  • Defining your approach to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB).
  • Leadership actions.
  • Applying your mission, vision, values and DEIB principles.

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