YoungUpstarts
JULY 21, 2015
In today’s competitive global market, managers know that employees (including really valuable ones) are likely to change jobs every few years or so. Like it or not, employee mobility has just become a fact of life. ” The fear of an ex-employee sharing your vital secrets with her new employer is, indeed, a well-founded one.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 11, 2021
Authors Adrian Gostick and Chestor Elton, with their deep backgrounds as executive coaches and organizational consultants, recommend some simple methods, consistent with my own beliefs, to reduce the pain of uncertainty, and increase productivity, in your teams and employees: Make it okay for them to not have all the answers.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 10, 2022
But if you can do a clean financing at a lower price, I always think that’s a better option for everyone (founders, employees, and existing investors.). and a bunch of other things. Sometimes, given your syndicate configuration, you have no choice but to take structure in a new round.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Me: I know.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Whether it’s planning a New Year’s Eve soiree or buying gifts for family members, employees may experience productivity dips when the holiday season is in full swing. If you can offer employees the opportunity to switch up their work hours to meet their social demands, you’ll ease their psychological burden—which can be heavy at the holidays.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. Our online media company is small, we have 6 employees, great proven leaders, great talent, great cashflow.
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