The 1:1 meeting
Ben Horowitz on the value of 1:1 meetings: The key to a good one-on-one meeting is the understanding that it is the employee’s meeting rather than the manager’s meeting. This is the free-form meeting...
View ArticleSidestepping regulatory risk
Chris Dixon dives into government regulation, a topic that receives occasional attention from tech media and the like. With Uber fighting the DC city council and New York laws affecting Airbnb, the...
View ArticleSlow down to speed up
Title stolen from Brad Feld who covers the idea of product cadence in an older blog post: It reminded me of something I often tell TechStars teams – “slow down to speed up.” I see so many startups...
View ArticleIn God we trust; all others, bring data
Several months back, Wired posted an essay on the rise of A/B testing within tech companies. Nothing groundbreaking for analytics practitioners, but hearing war stories—both successes and...
View ArticleFred Wilson on revenue models
Fred Wilson starts a new series of posts on revenue models: I will kick off this series by making an important point about focus. I strongly believe that entrepreneurs should pick one revenue model to...
View ArticleTable stakes in product development
Cap Watson is Etsy’s design lead. His perspective on the idea of product table stakes is something that should be familiar to people in the web/mobile space. In the context of Twitter, etc. copying...
View ArticleExperimenting your way to growth
Through the WSJ Accelerators discussion, Brad Feld identifies a culture of experimentation as core to growth: A long time ago, I realized that every successful business was a continuous process of...
View ArticleA structured approach to traction
Over the last couple months, Gabriel Weinberg has been churning out post after thoughtful post related to startup marketing. Earlier this week he presented the Bullseye Framework for startups to...
View ArticleMixpanel and the market for startup analytics
Mixpanel launched Revenue Analytics today. For a long time, Mixpanel provided a very generic event-tracking system, allowing customers to centralize tracking across systems and channels. But over the...
View ArticleStartup stages and growth through unit economics
Startups go through phases just like people—you have to crawl before you walk before you run. Fred Wilson divides the startup lifecycle into three stages: While building product your team is singularly...
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