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| Page 1 of 9 | Previous | Next | CODE AS CRAFT FEBRUARY 4, 2011 How does Etsy manage development and operations? These teams are paired with a product manager and a designer, and there is some movement across teams as needed. All All designers at Etsy code and product managers code at various levels, too. Ops operations people philosophyFirst of all, I love the team and am proud of the work that they do. Everyone in the company uses IRC. Lots | WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM OCTOBER 23, 2010 The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business. They might accidentally hire someonebad, but its not going to kill the company. Want to start a startup? Maybe. | | | | | |
| PETER LEVINE NOVEMBER 7, 2011 Founder Re-org: Possible Outcomes There was also no question in my mind that scaling the organization was going to require hiring a VP engineering. SpiderNet (like XenSource) needs to keep its founder and hire a VP of engineering. It became one of the easiest and most effective ways of managing and reporting on our business. Hiring Leadership Management | | | BEN'S BLOG JANUARY 19, 2012 Management Debt There also exists a less well-understood parallel concept, which I will call management debt. Like technical debt, management debt is incurred when you make an expedient, short-term management decision with an expensive, long-term consequence. No performance management or employee feedback process. Management | | | | | | | |
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BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012  The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth
“Yeah, but I’m just going to execute this [channel sales deal, international license of my product, new industry, new operating system, biz dev deal] and then it will pretty much run itself.” always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth. Let me explain. Trust me. MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009  Hiring at a Startup? Know Thy Weaknesses
But whether it’s Naval’s “power of two&# or my “start things and then hire your co-founder&# approach the reality is that you’ll need to find a partner. You might be great at networking and leading but bad at planning and managing. Are you externally savvy vs. more inwardly operational? MORE >> -
STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008 Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. In other words, we committed the one cardinal sin of community management. Yikes. for H. MORE >> -
GET VENTURE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011  Hiring A Product Lead: Process Managers vs. UX Savants
We recently hired a new product lead at Kohort (which we’re very excited about). The process of hiring a Head of Product helped me better understand the types of candidates that companies will inevitably be considering when selecting a product guru. Put another way – on one side you have process and on the other you have UX. MORE >> -
 Ten Learning Steps from Entrepreneur to Manager
Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. It’s here that entrepreneurs must shift their thinking from tactical and operational, to strategic and managerial. m convinced that management is a learnable skill. Marty Zwilling. MORE >>
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- Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti VINICIUS VACANTI | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
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- When to Break the Hiring Rules FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012
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