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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

Use Situational Judgement : tailor support for employees ranging from micromanagement for new hires to hands-off for high performers. 12 Questions to Find GReat Managers : Use frameworks like Gallup’s 12 questions to assess your effectiveness as a manager. Verify understanding : Have delegatees summarize tasks to ensure clarity.

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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.”. 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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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. The process is bankrupt if you simple tweak the data to support your hypotheses. I then try out my solutions by interviewing people to “prove or disprove&# my conclusions.

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Liveblocks grabs $5 million for its real-time collaboration API

TechCrunch

Over the past few years, building a web app has become easier thanks to frameworks and APIs. But letting multiple people interact with the same document, form, whiteboard or piece of content is still incredibly hard. When you open a document in Google Docs, you can see several profile pictures in the top right corner.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

VDRs don’t just support external financing campaigns, but can also serve as valuable tools for pharma-facing business development deals in growing biotech companies. 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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The New Business Preservation Act and the Tradition of U.S. Federal Government Support for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Ian Hathaway

The clearest mechanism for this support was wartime expenditures on research and development by the U.S. The SBIC program continues to this day, supporting more than 300 investment firms each year. But that doesn’t change the fact the U.S. Department of Defense during World War II and the Cold War that followed.