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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

Create psychological safety : Encourage calculated risks and constructive dissent. Document thoroughly : Use video, Loom, or detailed documentation to transfer knowledge effectively. Balance autonomy and alignment : Give teams freedom within clear strategic boundaries.

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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

AI CAD, construction, permitting Accountants & Auditors 1.38 Automated book closing & reconciliation ; document ingestion Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupations 1.22 Automated document ingestion & reconciliation for closing books is changing accounting. Powerpoint creation, data analysis Lawyers 0.8

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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walk

The push back usually boiled down to some version of: “We have this great plan that we spent a number of weeks documenting, socializing, and cascading through the organization. Board construction is really challenging, especially in a startup. I am going to look stupid.

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The Constitution for Your New Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data

David Teten VC

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. These agreements may be inappropriate, unfeasible, or unwise to put in your signed legal documents.

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What is AI automation? And how your business can use it

The Zapier Blog

Thanks to NLP, AI automation systems can engage in (mostly) sensible chatbot conversations with customers, automatically analyze thousands of reviews to gauge overall sentiment, instantly translate documents, or transcribe meeting notes into text, making sense of our primary mode of communication.

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The best pipeline management software in 2025

The Zapier Blog

These apps offer the AI, automation, documentation, and reporting features that you need to keep the lead pipes (the ones pronounced leed , not led ) flowing smoothly. The best pipeline management software at a glance Best for Standout feature Pricing Zapier AI orchestration Integrates thousands of apps with built-in AI From $29.99/month;

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What is a project management framework? A guide with 7 examples

The Zapier Blog

Collaboration: This defines not only how your team meets and communicates, but also how they document processes and decisions to keep stakeholders in the loop and transfer knowledge between team members.