TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Co-founded in 2007 by Yasser Bashir, Arbisoft falls on the larger end of the spectrum of software development partners that our readers have recommended in our ongoing survey. If we wanted to add a developer, we could have an incredible one join our team in under one week,” said Traub. ” Image Credits: Yasser Bashir.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

What it does: Decentralized order book for loans. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. In July 2021 it raised $235 million from General Atlantic and is using the funds to hire developers. Stage: Seed round.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 24, 2021

A good place to start is the competing values framework (CVF). Developed in 1983 by Robert E. Quinn and John Rohrbaugh, it models organizational culture and strategy. This requires design thinking. It divides the workforce into behavioral quadrants.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 30, 2014

After @pmarca tweeted about the concept, I read one of the books on the topic called Certain to Win. According to Boyd’s philosophy, the way to enable teams to become agile is by using two frameworks each with four ideas, the Organizational Climate and OODA. For teams to act swiftly, Boyd reasons, they must share four cultural values.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

I wanted to work with great investors, too, and fortunately I had the ability either to work with Accel-funded companies, start my own or leverage other investor relationships I’d developed. No choice we make will be perfect, and all the frameworks in the world won’t eliminate risk entirely. We just need to take the next step.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I installed Windows 3.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

You need to get straight to the beating heart of the business, understand the culture, involve the right people — and be comfortable telling founders and exec teams things they don’t always want to hear. For example, for Airbnb that may be the number of nights booked; for Spotify, minutes listened to. What value do they add?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 1, 2020

His new book is Don’t Take Yes For an Answer: Using Authority, Warmth, and Energy to Get Exceptional Results was released in June 2020 (Harper Business). Why did you write this book? At a speech on 8 March 2017, someone in the audience on International Women’s Day at Bank Leumi, asked me if she could buy two copies of my book.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 3, 2023

A chapter wasn’t just over, a book was being closed. Now, we were adapting to an organization with its own culture, operating procedures, tech stack, and vocabulary. Our client contracts would be sunset, and the entire team would be let go…I would be let go. 18 months to find our perfect buyers. Six months to close the deal.

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EntreWorks Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In recent years, we’ve seen a number of interesting new community development models being used out in the field. To briefly summarize, WealthWorks is an asset-based community development strategy that helps region to understand their assets (forms of community wealth) and to help grow and retain assets that remain anchored in the community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michèle Hecken : I had sold my business and was writing a book, which made me curious about public speaking. I wanted GSA to give me a framework for a signature talk and help me understand what topic and how best to present on it. I have also developed a women’s leadership retreat in Tuscany, Italy. It did exactly that!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Instead of giving shoes One for One, TOMS is committing 1/3 of profits to grassroots goods, developing deep partnerships with local organizations, and providing them with cash grants. And building a culture tethered to a test and learn mentality. Develop contingency plans and processes. Key Takeaways ?? Future proof.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. 22:00 Mark’s book recommendation: American Pastoral by Philip Roth. I agree with him. Everyone follow him @scottedwalker.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 1, 2016

Let’s create a framework to compare the bookings capacity, the ramp period and the cost for three levels of sales hires. Quota span from $500k in bookings to $1.2M. Level Salary Bookings Opportunity Cost Total Cost Quota Normalization Cost of Failed Hire(s) FTE Equiv. Which is better? Entry Level Mid Level Senior.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

47:40 – What’s a must read book and why? I think as a whole company, it’s not just me, as a whole company, we have built a culture which is very, very user-focused. A lot of those books are written outside India. So I think this is a very big positive development for India.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ewen Finser , Founder, The Digital Merchant Utilize a Hypothesis-Driven Framework One essential strategy that we’ve utilized to manage risks in our startup journey is the adoption of a hypothesis-driven framework. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. You know, this AI is a use case for developing and deploying that kind of power. I believe that it will.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. I got very lucky early on because someone introduced me to a book by David Goldhill called “Catastrophic Care.” healthcare system is confusing and complex.

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