Management Reputation Software Review Vesting 
Board Effect
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Often, this happens because someone has a vested interest such as money, status, knowledge or reputation that places them in a position where the position calls the objectivity of their decision-making into question. A conflict of interest can occur when one party stands to benefit because of their position with another party.
Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. We worked all day building market strategies for customers while we tried to embody our expertise on software that would expand the company's reach. Starting Startups. Amen.
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This is going to be BIG.
JULY 16, 2012
In February, I got contacted by a former management consultant who was now working in an operations role for a high profile startup. I wasn't hiring, but I agreed to meet him due to his generous offer. He's a smart product manager that I introduced to Joel. We met up and I was super impressed. That was actually slow.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn.
The Next Web
AUGUST 14, 2013
Always have a vesting schedule. If you have to raise on a story but don’t have the reputation, something’s wrong. Being good at engineering has nothing to do with being good at product management. If you must do something that doesn’t fit into a sprint, put as much structure and peer review around it as possible.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Our startup made software for making online stores. We knew that ifonline shopping ever took off, these sites would have to be generatedby software, so we wrote some. Slowness in Launching Companies of all sizes have a hard time getting software done. Itsintrinsic to the medium; software is always 85% done.
discuss.joelonsoftware.com
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
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