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Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
let’s be real: phone calls are terrifying). This approach has been historically uncommon
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Andrew McCluskey added 6mo ago
Clarity and shared understanding of goals (i.e., everyone gives the same answer to the question “Why are we building this and what do we hope to achieve with it?”). Unity around the specific work required and how each person will contribute to it (i.e., everyone can give an answer to the question “What am I supposed to be doing and how does that fi
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Andrew McCluskey added 6mo ago
do not attempt to raise money or talk to potential investors without reading Brad Feld’s superb, transparent, and surprisingly fun-to-read guide Venture Deals.
from Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin
Benyamin Elias added 8mo ago
One final, unorthodox tip: if possible, build your expertise before you build your network, and build your network before you build your company. Each one leads elegantly into the next.
from Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin
Benyamin Elias added 8mo ago
Finally, and perhaps most broadly, in a design review of the first version of Moz Analytics, one of our software tools,
from Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin
Benyamin Elias added 8mo ago
The best entrepreneurs . . . know how to tell an amazing story that will convince talent and investors to join in on the journey. —Alejandro Cremades, 2016
from Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin
Andrew McCluskey added 6mo ago
The classic funnel optimization promoted by many marketers has this peculiar idea that we must race to turn as many visitors as we can into paid customers and that any missed opportunity represents a flaw in our marketing process.
from Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin
Andrew McCluskey added 6mo ago
path for ICs to progress means you get the best people in the right roles with the ability to advance their careers and their pay. Forcing management to be the only way up will cost you talent in places you need it, and worse, install the wrong people in those roles, harming everyone on the team. CHAPTER 15 VULNERABILITY ≠ WEAKNESS In Silicon Valle
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Andrew McCluskey added 6mo ago
Project Aristotle, an internal Google research project, looked at thousands of teams at the company with years of empirical data on performance and concluded that empathy between team members and a group norm of emotional support was the best, most consistent predictor of a team’s success.
from Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin
Benyamin Elias added 8mo ago