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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. 12 Questions to Find GReat Managers : Use frameworks like Gallup’s 12 questions to assess your effectiveness as a manager.

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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We thought GSEA would be an excellent framework for exploring another generation of students whose brilliant ideas could become big business.”. Instead, we saw competitors supporting each other by giving advice and feedback. We’re grateful to GSEA for providing this wonderful platform and letting us document it.”.

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You Can’t Rely on a VC for Your Hardest Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. ” Such simple yet poignant advice.

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The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. Tags: Startup Advice. I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies.

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Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast

Both Sides of the Table

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. They over think the decision framework. Check your legal framework. Good enough isn’t.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. “Here’s how you upload a document. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method. Act I – The Discussion: I think the negative reaction to Powerpoint from some VCs is that it usually becomes a crutch. DO NOT make it a features & functions presentation.

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Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring

Y Combinator

But I found that early advice to be accurate: The first 10 employees are the most important aspect in the company’s life cycle – other than finding product-market fit – and recruiting has to be the founder’s priority. Most candidates will ask questions in the document, as it can be more approachable.