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DECEMBER 10, 2014

The current dialogue around the city is that, if this ecosystem is built the right way, Boston may manage to keep some of the great companies that originate here. When I was a freshman, a wise mentor told me, “Pick your major based on something for which the Stanford engineering department is creating new buildings.”

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JUNE 5, 2018

We launched the Hiring Bootcamp to equip portfolio founders and hiring managers with the best practices around building a hiring machine , so they can maximize their chances of getting the best talent into the door efficiently. Measure and manage your recruiting effort like a marketing/sales funnel. Metrics, metrics, and metrics!

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You might be able to get your engineering team to do some of the above, but you most likely can’t offload the strategic thinking around “what metrics/ways to look at the data is the best to answer X question” until you have someone focused on analytics full-time. dashboard, and implementing some sort of automated report generation.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

This B2B startup allows homeowners and small business property managers renting out their properties on sites like Airbnb to get paid early. In a similar fashion, while we’re investors in consumer subscription meal service MealPal , we’ve also backed Upserve , a front-of-the-house restaurant management platform.

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APRIL 11, 2019

For example, asking a Sales Director candidate to give a presentation may make more sense than asking an engineering candidate for that. I’d recommend having a potential teammate (as opposed to a manager) take the candidate out to lunch. Instead, a coding challenge may make more sense for that role. Observe Behavioral Clues.

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JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Automating their end-to-end eCommerce operations (from managing inventory to order fulfillment to customer service). So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube).

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Do you need highly skilled functional managers or do you need a true partner? These include: Do I need help leading or managing? What functional responsibilities do I need this person to manage? This enables the COO to decisively and proactively lead more and escape the cycle of reactive management.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the interview process during the seed stage can feel a bit more meandering to the hiring manager — who is most likely the founder(s) given the size and stage of the company. What she’s trying to learn: As a manager, it’s very important to understand what motivates people as everyone is motivated differently.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. However, managing product development correctly is incredibly important in the earliest days and can make or break your company. How should you think about impact?

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

In most advanced economies, 40-50% or more of insurance is bought and managed over the internet, but in the US, it’s 1-5% in most insurance categories. We believe that intelligent statistical engines and learning algorithms are going to make that effort significantly more straightforward and exciting.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

In most advanced economies, 40-50% or more of insurance is bought and managed over the internet, but in the US, it’s 1-5% in most insurance categories. We believe that intelligent statistical engines and learning algorithms are going to make that effort significantly more straightforward and exciting.

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MARCH 10, 2015

Tamiz Ahmed is a former product manager at Bleacher Report, where he helped build the successful app for sports fans, Team Stream , prior to the company’s nine-figure sale to Turner. Below, he shares product management lessons from his time at BR. Ahmed is a former Googler and the current founder of Nani.

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JUNE 13, 2016

After a lot of testing, David has landed on a specific model with three engineers to a team. David is a serial entrepreneur whose recent ventures prior to Drift include founding Compete, which was acquired by HubSpot, then completely overhauling the HubSpot product and engineering team and ethos as Chief Product Officer.

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