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14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams

Startup Blogpost

They have an opportunity to set realistic expectations for achievable goals. If they don’t achieve their goals, you have an opportunity to work with them to reset expectations based on what they learned. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Here, we’re sharing an actionable guide for biotech leadership teams as they start the process of building or renovating their own data room. Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company.

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Why Startups Really Fail, and How To Fix It

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Mistake 3: Lack Of Leadership I have often observed that product inventors are not necessarily good communicators or leaders. Good leadership is the secret sauce of a successful startup. And always remember: Leadership is not everybody’s piece of cake. Opportunities are simply opportunities and not long-term plans.

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Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring

Y Combinator

This is an opportunity to evaluate the company and come to a mutual decision at the end of 2, 4, or 6 weeks together – no pressure. We encourage the candidate to comment and add their thoughts to the document, including feedback for me and their thoughts on the interview process. Tell me about this process.

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Less Noise, More Signal: Web3 Marketing In A Bear Market

Entrepreneur's Handbook

For airdrops to be effective in the bear market, projects launching tokens will need to confirm users’ on-chain reputation and focus on users with proven track records of contributing to protocols, rather than airdropping to misaligned users that dump tokens at first opportunity. In my experience, this is a mistake.

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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale

Y Combinator

Your job is to build a case for why your company is the opportunity for them. We were intentional about this from day one and documented it in our engineering handbook. Train your team to use experimentation frameworks. They should be used to enforce, validate, and document requirements.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

In 2019, the Malaysian government also issued its Shared Prosperity Vision 2030, a 10-year framework for restructuring its economy that includes building an Islamic fintech hub as a key part of its strategy. Islamic banks are extraordinarily conservative, not only with how they operate, but the cost of financing, who they can lend to, etc.,”