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How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows

Steve Blank

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. Manager of people and process? Special projects?

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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

Manage cash flow. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. But take it from what a good friend and advisor once said to me: “Ego is dilutive to net worth.”. Clarify and document expectations through a simple letter of understanding.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Responses to Negative Data: Four Senior Leadership Archetypes.

Occam's Razor

During 2019, our Net Promotion Score has dropped 15 points. They dilute the analysis with non-facts. Invest in self-learning every week – even couple hours a week – to ensure you can keep pace with the demands for sophisticated analysis which will be expected at an agile pace. Sometimes this is your direct manager.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. This is also known as the Net Promoter Score (NPS) question. Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Management. Managers and editors benefit from a solid style guide, too.

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