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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

As startups scale, effective management becomes the difference between chaotic growth and sustainable success. After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. Evaluate the decision-making process rather than just the outcomes 5.

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Tradeoffs in Innovative Careers

This is going to be BIG.

When you work at Chase or PWC, your career trajectory is more established--you go from Assistant Trader to Trader to Trading Manager to Director of Trading to VP and so on. I'd say no--as long as that doesn't become your pattern. That's why people often take the portfolio approach when managing their career.

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How Smith.ai saves 250+ hours weekly with one Zap

The Zapier Blog

Now, feedback is routed in real-time to the correct Slack channel and manager, allowing the team to follow up immediately. "The Since replacing manual categorization with automation, the team has ensured data consistency and minimized time spent managing internal updates. " Streamlining internal updates and dashboards As Smith.ai

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Certainty on Demand: How Labor Platforms are Moving to Higher Order Work

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That only worked because you could connect everyone via technology—routing phonecalls, e-mails, design documents, etc. In all of these cases, workers are working as individual contributors—while one person might be managing multiple people, the workers are not connected to each other as a feature of the platform.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

The construction industry continues to be full of possibilities for finding better ways to work, from optimal utilization of land and urban areas driven by design solutions, to physical construction activity across the lifetime of the buildings themselves. How much time are you spending on construction robotics right now?

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. Many people are visual thinkers. Therefore to drive creativity people need to do visual brainstorming.