If there’s one thing that’s more available than ever for founders in 2018, it’s advice. Not a day goes by without someone recommending a book, blog, podcast or conference that I can’t miss, or someone I ‘have to meet’. We shared our advice on why startups need to look inside first, with Startups.co.
All-hands meetings are part and parcel of Silicon Valley. You would be hard-pressed to find a tech company where this regular meeting isn’t ingrained in process. We recently shared our views with the RecruitLoop team on alternatives to the All-Hands to increase the value and reduce the cost!
As a startup guy, my world is full of buzzwords. We’re disrupting a space, have pivoted, got our minimum valuable product (MVP) out to our total addressable market (TAM) and even had a ‘.ai’ domain name. Undoubtedly, one of my ‘favorites’ is ‘team alignment’.
Product Managers are like the "CEO of the product" as Ben Horowitz put it. While the web is out fighting about the validity of this analogy, we're here to help you deal with two issues that CEOs and PMs alike struggle with.
Get to better decisions, faster, with everyone holding up a hand with fingers numbering 0 (fist) to 5.
The right rapport-building questions give others permission to take the emotional space needed for trust to deepen.