These are some posts I recommended reading this week.
Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. And having too much money certainly raises board expectations that you will do big things quickly.
- Be a good coach
- Empower your team and don’t micromanage
- Express interest in team members’ success and personal well being
- Don’t be a sissy: be productive and results-oriented
- Be a good communicator and listen to your team
- Help your employees with career development
- Have a clear vision and strategy for the team
- Have key technical skills so you can help advise the team
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[…] lean start-up movement that seems to be gathering momentum in reality and on various campuses. h/t Tim Berry (@timberry) I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement” as espoused by Steve […]
Some good posts indeed. Thanks for sharing those on the weekned. I had some time to read them and enjoyed learning some new stuff about the web. Going to implement them soon!