Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. I also set personal learning goals, such as reading at least four business books each quarter. By hiring (and firing) for culture, entrepreneurs can ensure that their team is aligned and working towards the same goal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Glazer has established himself as a leader who invests in his team and in the culture of his organization. . A big part of this is showing my team my commitment to improving, inspiring them to grow and giving them both the framework and the support to improve. For a deeper dive into how to invest in your team, check out EO 24/7. .

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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’d been speaker-coaching for nearly 20 years, but I loved being behind the scenes more than on the stage.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2018

Company culture is a feeling, an emotional component. Simply put: The product or service that the company delivers is its function , but the feeling people have working on that product or service and the feeling that clients have buying that product or service is the culture. Where does an organization’s culture come from?

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 29, 2020

This article originally published on the Center for American Entrepreneurship Ideas Blog My new book with CAE Advisory Board member Brad Feld published yesterday. As the economy evolves from an industrial-era hierarchy to an information-age network, intangibles—knowledge, cultural norms, relationships, etc.—are

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. If you publish a book, how do you get on the NY Times best seller list? Simply write a great book?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Rocket often followed the Blitzscaling model popularized by Reid Hoffman — earning them an appearance in his book of the same name. Our team at Heartcore Capital use the following framework and learnings to guide internationalization strategies for our portfolio companies. billion market cap), Zalando ($21.2

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There were just very few people who had the practical experience and framework-driven thinking she could bring. So instead she wrote a book , coming out March 7th, and available for pre-order now. Probably the best preview can be found in an interview she did with Elad Gil for his own book the High Growth Handbook (also a must have).

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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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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. It is currently raising a seed round led by Framework Ventures. Here’s the breakdown behind the 16 startups: Company name: Lulo.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In addition to our love for software development, we also had strong ideas on the kind of culture that would likely inspire smart people to do their best in a technology-focused organization. In shaping our team structures, we have borrowed many ideas from the book. Arbisoft is a manifestation of many of those ideas.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll provide a simple framework to calculate the expected value of the information gained from the experiment. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. Much of this paralysis is due to a lack of framework for determining the value of a test.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

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. ” Those questions and then having them written into narratives, fundamentally started to change the culture. Because engineers they tend to start from the how.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 24, 2021

A good place to start is the competing values framework (CVF). Quinn and John Rohrbaugh, it models organizational culture and strategy. The purpose of talent optimization is twofold: first, to figure out the ideal blend of talent for the company’s mission; and second, to map the talent currently in place. Developed in 1983 by Robert E.

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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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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. Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Specifically, I hoped to join a company with a very strong engineering and product management culture that needed a CEO with strategy, vision, business development, fundraising and team-building expertise. No choice we make will be perfect, and all the frameworks in the world won’t eliminate risk entirely. All rights reserved.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Her team loved working for her. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Manager guides worked particularly well across regions and across cultures as a way of building rapport quickly during high growth. Goal frameworks ensure that the priorities of the leadership team coalesce the priorities of the rest of the organization. The particular framework isn’t important.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Most every marketer is familiar with A/B testing, but few have a consistent framework for prioritizing what to test. He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics. How the Right Creative Attracts The Right Customers As Steve Jobs famously said : “People DO judge a book by its cover.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so, I joined this program, and we and a bunch of my colleagues in the program took his work and thought, “Can we put this work, this expert system inference, in a formal Bayesian probabilistic framework?” Well this is where we’re gonna start to get into the pop culture, right? Marty: Yes.

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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. Tyler: But are the roots of this stasis quite general and quite cultural? I believe that it will.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? Let me play open book so you can understand the situation better. Are Your Existing Investors Over Their Skis? Only you know.

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EntreWorks Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

These include the Eight Capitals : Intellectual, Financial, Natural, Cultural, Built, Political, Individual, and Social. You can now tap into a new book on WealthWorks: Wealth Creation: A New Framework for Rural Economic and Community Development. WealthWorks at Work. EntreWorks Blog.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Back in November 1988, a few months after we went public, I wrote a statement of values for our new corporation, an attempt to codify our culture. Our one-on-one relationship with our customers is key to our success because it provides the framework under which we respond to the ever-changing needs of the customer.

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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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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. What’s a must read book everyone should read, and why?

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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.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

And building a culture tethered to a test and learn mentality. In my next book, Gen Z Graduates To Adulthood, the oldest members of Gen Z tell me they are looking for something different in the brands they support than previous generations. Underlying sales growth is now at 4.4% The first-mover advantage is real.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 28, 2014

The book describes three different types of Tours of Duty: Rotational Tours : rotational tours cycle an employee through a few different departments over the course of several years. In order to attract and retain the best talent, startups have to create a culture of trust, respect, learning, accomplishment and shared values/mission.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It’s going to take intense collaboration, multiple inventions and products, as well as legal and cultural changes, to realize these next improvements. Outschool itself has surged over 2,000% in new bookings, and recently turned its first profit. Is there a threshold of value associated with this metric?

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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. He runs the Game Show Network.

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