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What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup?

TechCrunch

Here’s a framework for how it can help drive success at your company: Strategy, People, Image, Finance and Systems for compliance, or “SPIFS.”. By generic definition, the board of directors consists of elected individuals that represent shareholders. What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup?

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MagicBell raises $1.9M to build a plug-and-play notification platform for product teams

TechCrunch

“She has built a consumer product, and she has invested in a lot of startups […] we followed YC’s advice in this batch, which was to definitely leave some room in the round for strategic angels.” ” An example of MagicBell’s Notification inbox.

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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

Both Sides of the Table

That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking. McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper. The title IS the post.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: TAM takedown, green card layoffs, when to ignore investor advice

TechCrunch

As Rebecca Szkutak reported this week, SaaS startups that ignored this advice outperformed the ones that followed it. If someone offers you free business advice, it’s probably for their own benefit. In business, if someone’s offering you advice, it’s probably for their own benefit.

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Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars: Understanding Salespeople at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. Almost by definition. Mavericks are by definition bad at following rules and bad at process.

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In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs

Andreessen Horowitz

So, if you get a bunch of engineers in a room for example, if they need to do a web project, you can count the seconds before the discussion on frameworks come up. Marco: Yeah, and that was definitely new. And so all that, I think, this shift towards more of a real-time business is something that AI definitely will accelerate.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

Below, I’ve tried sharing our advice for managing your board – from how often to meet, to the materials you need – in order to ensure a useful and productive group discussion. Decision framework. ? I’ll share our collective advice on navigating these below. Managing Your Board. Meeting Schedule. Mixed messages.

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