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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. This applies to both founders and to VC’s that work with them. An obvious example would be in sales.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Your goal should be to turn your VCs into extended members of your team to get real value from them. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Ask your VC to send a critical email to a contact. Rob does it.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. He looked stunned.