The Blueprint for Building A+ Teams

By Nikki Blacksmith, Ph.D. & Maureen McCusker, Ph.D., Co-Founders of Blackhawke Teams make up the backbone of every startup. An “A” team can drive companies to success, but ineffective teams inevitably drive companies to failure. What drives startups to unicorn status: an A+ team. So what makes an A+ team? Based on decades of studying […]

The paradox of the female entrepreneur.

Startups with at least one female on their founding teams are more successful, yet female entrepreneurs receive only a fraction of the funding of their male counterparts. Why is this, and what can be done about it? In one study, researchers found that companies with at least one female founder perform 63% better than investments […]

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const CardDeck = () => { const [isFlipped, setIsFlipped] = React.useState(false); const [isShuffling, setIsShuffling] = React.useState(false); const [currentPrompt, setCurrentPrompt] = React.useState(''); const [usedPrompts, setUsedPrompts] = React.useState(new Set()); const prompts = [ "What obstacle have you recently overcome?", "What is your company's vision?", "What need is highest priority right now?", "What skills are your strengths? What skills do you feel you need to improve?", "How much wood, would a woodchuck, chuck?" ]; const getRandomPrompt = () => { const availablePrompts = prompts.filter(prompt => !usedPrompts.has(prompt)); if (availablePrompts.length === 0) { setUsedPrompts(new Set()); return prompts[Math.floor(Math.random() * prompts.length)]; } const randomPrompt = availablePrompts[Math.floor(Math.random() * availablePrompts.length)]; setUsedPrompts(new Set([...usedPrompts, randomPrompt])); return randomPrompt; }; const handleClick = () => { if (isFlipped || isShuffling) return; setIsShuffling(true); setTimeout(() => { setCurrentPrompt(getRandomPrompt()); setIsFlipped(true); setIsShuffling(false); }, 1000); }; const handleReset = () => { setIsFlipped(false); }; const style = document.createElement('style'); style.textContent = ` @keyframes shuffle { 0%, 100% { transform: translateY(0); } 25% { transform: translateY(-10px) rotate(-2deg); } 75% { transform: translateY(10px) rotate(2deg); } } .animate-shuffle { animation: shuffle 1s ease-in-out; } `; document.head.appendChild(style); return e('div', { className: 'flex flex-col items-center justify-center min-h-screen bg-gray-100 p-4' }, e('div', { className: 'relative w-80 h-96' }, [ // Back of deck e('div', { key: 'back', className: `absolute w-full h-full ${isShuffling ? 'animate-shuffle' : ''}`, onClick: handleClick, style: { perspective: '1000px' } }, e('div', { className: `w-full h-full ${!isFlipped ? 'cursor-pointer' : 'hidden'}` }, [ e('div', { className: 'absolute w-full h-full bg-white rounded-lg shadow-lg flex items-center justify-center p-4' }, e('div', { className: 'relative w-full h-full border-4 border-purple-600 rounded-lg flex items-center justify-center' }, [ e('div', { className: 'absolute inset-0 rounded-lg', style: { backgroundImage: 'repeating-linear-gradient(45deg, rgba(147, 51, 234, 0.1) 0px, rgba(147, 51, 234, 0.1) 10px, transparent 10px, transparent 20px)' } }), e('div', { className: 'text-purple-600 text-center font-bold z-10' }, 'Entrepreneurial Growth Prompts') ]) ), e('div', { className: 'absolute top-1 left-1 w-full h-full bg-white rounded-lg border-2 border-purple-600' }), e('div', { className: 'absolute top-2 left-2 w-full h-full bg-white rounded-lg border-2 border-purple-600' }) ]) ), // Flipped card with prompt e('div', { key: 'front', className: `absolute w-full h-full ${isFlipped ? 'block' : 'hidden'}`, onClick: handleReset, style: { transform: isFlipped ? 'rotateY(0deg)' : 'rotateY(180deg)', transition: 'transform 0.6s' } }, e('div', { className: 'w-full h-full bg-white rounded-lg shadow-lg p-6 cursor-pointer border-4 border-purple-600' }, e('div', { className: 'h-full flex items-center justify-center text-center text-gray-800 font-medium' }, currentPrompt) ) ) ]) ); }; // Render the component document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { const domContainer = document.getElementById('card-deck-root'); if (domContainer) { ReactDOM.render(e(CardDeck), domContainer); } }); Last edited 3 minutes ago