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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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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders. Internally, we’ve begun using the term “founder-market-geography fit” to describe this idea. What is Founder-Market-Geography Fit? Let’s get into it.

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3 key ingredients for successful remote work

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Richard Walton and Heléne Smuts say yes—provided you have the right framework in place. Walton is an member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and founder of Avirtual , a company that supplies virtual employees. Smuts is currently enrolled in EO’s Accelerator program and the founder of Credo Growth. CULTURE AND VISION.

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The Four Tenets of Conscious Capitalism

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Kent Gregoire is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member and founder of Symphony Advantage, which helps CEOs achieve ongoing success through strategic thinking, advice and planning. To this end, the conscious capitalism movement provides a framework that includes four interconnected disciplines. Caring culture.

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Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast

Both Sides of the Table

They don’t create a culture of punishment for mistakes. You’re never really going to know how somebody is going to perform in the role, how good of a cultural fit he or she is going to be and how motivated they’re going to become until they’re on the inside. They over think the decision framework. But here’s the thing.

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“I will say that a lot of tension arose from Googler’s expectations that the company’s culture had to be exactly the same as what it was when the company was one fifth the size” Former GOOG & MSFT executive (and multiple time founder) Javier Soltero on Career Advice, Big Company Culture, and Startup Hiring Tips

Hunter Walk

By that framework I started out as a ‘fan’ of Javier Soltero way before we became friends. Are there things you tell people to consider, or frameworks you recommend, which apply almost regardless of the circumstances? HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 36:00 Nate: The culture in LA is by far the most entrepreneurial culture in the country. But Nate actually worked directly for Clay for a year-and-a-half! I agree with him.

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