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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

A Contrasting Example: When Task-Focus Fails Another startup I worked with initially resisted this framework. Our Management Dashboard leveraged startup development frameworks to identify important milestones, which became quarterly objectives, which then generated monthly tasks. What changed in your work or leadership?

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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

Evolve your leadership : Great leaders consistently manage themselves out of the job. One-on-Ones and Feedback Structure your 1:1s : Use a four-part format covering performance, relationships, leadership, and innovation. Document thoroughly : Use video, Loom, or detailed documentation to transfer knowledge effectively.

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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. But in leadership and entrepreneurism the top-down approach will be the right solution more often than not. And if data is required then I apply actual data to my conclusions.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Here, we’re sharing an actionable guide for biotech leadership teams as they start the process of building or renovating their own data room. Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company.

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14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams

Startup Blogpost

Dennis Consorte , Digital Marketing and Leadership Consultant for Startups, Snackable Solutions Link Incentives to Goals Accountability is the cornerstone of high-performing startup teams. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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How to conduct a reduction in force: Planning, execution and follow-up

TechCrunch

Many CEOs can’t afford to simply exist within the status quo frameworks they enjoyed as part of a rosy 2021. Earlier this summer, we began sharing a five-page document that outlined our guidance with some of our portfolio company CEOs that was based on our personal experience and observation. What is driving the need for a RIF?

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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale

Y Combinator

We were intentional about this from day one and documented it in our engineering handbook. Train your team to use experimentation frameworks. In the early days, we were building two to three features per week and it took us a couple of weeks to build the framework we needed around MySQL.