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

YoungUpstarts

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. Despite the peaks and valleys in the economy, and the institution of more technologies, this figure has been pretty consistent for years. Manage cash flow. At my company, our cash position is reviewed every week, come rain or shine.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here]. The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. Every now and then, investors are told things are going great and the founders are really excited about what they are doing. It’s too early for that s**t.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

In the fallout from the pandemic, most founders and CEOs are in the process of completely revamping their growth models from the bottom up amid new and unpredictable consumer behavior. At some point, some percentage of those users end up actually then leaving reviews. These, of course, are not normal times. I’m Lauren Murrow.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Our official titles will be: (8) Technical Intern (9-12) Member of Technical Staff (13-15) Fog Creek Fellow "Member of Technical Staff", a.k.a. After that, every six months, Fog Creek management will review the performance of everyone in the company with the goal of making sure that people are at the right level.

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9 Things That Tell You To Pivot

YoungUpstarts

by Jon Leighton, Director of digital agency iResources and founder of neatly.io. Pivoting’ is spoken about a lot in the tech world. I spoke to a founder recently about a pivot; they offered an ad tech solution to enterprise clients and had just spent six months on a new feature. Technology pivot. Is it clear?