Tue.Feb 17, 2015

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Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It

First Round Review

Arielle Jackson has experience crafting marketing campaigns at Google, Facebook and Square. This is her messaging toolbox.

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A Roadmap to Product Peace

Product Culture

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in April 1975 (Source: Ford Library) At 6:15 am on October 6, 1973, Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to US President Nixon, was abruptly awoken by Joseph Sisco, his Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. According to Kissinger’s new book, Crisis, The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises , “As I forced myself awake, I heard Sisco’s gravelly voice insisting that Israel and two Arab co

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Here's the Advice I Give All of Our First Time Founders

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According to First Round Partner Rob Hayes, there are only three things new founders need to focus on to succeed.

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Power Up Your Team with Nonviolent Communication Principles

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Ann Mehl and Jerry Colonna coach startups to communicate more clearly. These are the quick tips they've seen make a huge impact.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places - How to Find a Co-founder

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Steve Blank explains how entrepreneurs can use a tool called the Business Model Canvas to find the ideal co-founder for their startup.

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Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid

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If you take what you're doing too seriously, you're likely to squeeze the life out of it. Here's a guide to letting your projects stay stupid and fun.

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I’ve Worked with Hundreds of Recruiters - Here's What I Learned

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TalentBin Founder Peter Kazanjy knows the qualities that make a good recruiter, and has a rubric for building out your hiring strategy.

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Execute Like a Rookie, Lead Like a Multiplier

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Knowing too much can be dangerous and narrow your view. Leadership advisor Liz Wiseman offers tips for avoiding this trap.

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How Designers Can Earn a Seat at the Table

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Phil King rose through the ranks to lead design at Flickr. His mission: To help more designers become leaders and advocate for their craft.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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An Inside Look at a Flat Organization That Serves Millions

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Gumroad adopted a flat management structure by accident, but it's still working great. Founder Sahil Lavingia explains why flat is better.

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The 39 Best Pieces of Sales Advice You’ll Hear This Year

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Wiley Cerilli has built huge sales teams from scratch, emerging with an arsenal of lessons for founders looking to do the same thing.

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This Culture Deck Powers the World’s Toughest Work

First Round Review

Possible Health endeavors to bring high-quality health care to the world's harshest environments. It's powered by incredible culture.

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Looking to Scale Your Sales? Seven Bullets to Dodge

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Upshift Partners Founder Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski lists the 7 deadly sins of sales that can tank your company before you even have traction.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Letting Go of Efficiency Can Accelerate Your Company — Here's How

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Yammer Co-founder and CTO Adam Pisoni wants more companies to move away from tradition and become more responsive. Here's why.

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How to Make Engineering Interns Effective for Your Startup

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Startup Sift Science relies on its interns to hit its goals. Here's how it designed its program to produce incredible and effective engineers.

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What to Learn from the Man Who Managed Reddit's Community of Millions

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Erik Martin was the first community manager wrangling the internet's noisiest forum: Reddit. Along the way, he picked up these lessons.

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Mechanize Your Hiring Process to Make Better Decisions

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Hiring the best is hard because there's so much human variation. Amazon's Anurag Gupta shares a system that always raises the bar.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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The Case for Why Marketing Should Have Its Own Engineers

First Round Review

Robbie Mitchell runs marketing at Knewton like an independent agency within the company and it's working like a charm.