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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

12 Questions to Find GReat Managers : Use frameworks like Gallup’s 12 questions to assess your effectiveness as a manager. Document thoroughly : Use video, Loom, or detailed documentation to transfer knowledge effectively. Decision Making Audit decisions : Focus on how decisions are made rather than just the conclusions.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. Features are nice, but this post is about the bigger vision. This is how software used to get developed.

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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.”. We’re grateful to GSEA for providing this wonderful platform and letting us document it.”. Costantini: “As adults, it’s our job to encourage self-starters and creative thinking in education.

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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. 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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Upfront’s Kobie Fuller has designed an investment framework for modern enterprise software

TechCrunch

But Fuller decided to sit down and figure out what those elements were, and he has created a framework that he released today. It comes down to documenting something Fuller has learned over the years as he’s built a company and been an investor.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. Document management? In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. They are your sparring partners. They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley.

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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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