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MAY 21, 2019
Managing Your Startup Board?—?A My talk was about “ managing your startup board ” and the full deck is on that SlideShare link and embedded below. For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product.
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MAY 26, 2011
The management team has to have a bias toward making decisions. There is an old management adage that says, “Hire slowly, fire fast.” Hire Slowly? I also subscribe to the views that you should always be recruiting (ABR) and when great people pop up you hire them and then find a way to make the role fit.
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OCTOBER 12, 2010
Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. One of the biggest mistakes I see early-stage startups making is hiring “seasoned&# sales professionals or hiring people too senior, too early.
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MARCH 17, 2011
If you develop something novel that catches a spark you’ll have the world gunning for you over night. This will be the team who hires the most talented people, channels them in the most productive configuration and gets the most output from their unique capabilities. Only hire A players. They hired him when he was an MBA.
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JULY 1, 2010
As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. Senior management feels undermined.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2014
You hire great people. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. You have this tension between on the one side being a micro-manager (by which great people won’t want to work with you) or being hands off (and having quality lapses or team alignment issues). More developers?
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NOVEMBER 14, 2017
As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. I always push companies to hire “an operationally focused CFO” during this phase because in order to systematize you need somebody who brings economic rigor to decision making. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.
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