February 2012
10 posts
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Airbnb: A $1.3 Billion-Dollar Startup's First-Ever... →
Another good example of a quality, simple pitch deck, this time from AirBnB.
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The First Pitch Deck Foursquare Ever Showed... →
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Almost Three: A Brief History Of Foursquare Time... →
“With so many approaches to product management, I found but a single common philosophy that bound all successful products together:
Identify product opportunities.
Create products to seize them.”
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Talk to Us About Your Problems →
“And Mr. Cho kind of looked at me. I could see he was puzzled. He said, ‘Jim-san. We all know you are a good manager, otherwise we would not have hired you. But please talk to us about your problems so we can all work on them together.’”
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"It is the human friction that makes the sparks." →
“I was part of a number of failed remote R&D attempts. The one time it worked was when we decided to abandon meetings, project documents, tracking tools, etc. Instead, we got a high quality speakerphone so everyone could overhear everyone else’s conversations, and we left it on all day, every day. It wasn’t the same as being together in person, but we did manage to get some of the human...
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In Startups And Life, You Need Plan A, B, And Z →
“How can you be flexibly persistent in your startup or in your career? Here’s a framework I use: ABZ Planning. In business and in life, you should have three plans: Plan A, Plan B, and Plan Z.” -Reid Hoffman
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
“Deciphering cues is hard, however. Our lives often contain too much information to figure out what is triggering a particular behavior. Do you eat breakfast at a certain time because you’re hungry? Or because the morning news is on? Or because your kids have started eating? Experiments have shown that most cues fit into one of five categories: location, time, emotional state, other people...
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An Overview of Online DIY Education →
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Employee Equity: How Much? →
“The first thing you do is you figure out how valuable your company is (we call this “best value”). This is NOT your 409a valuation (we call that “fair value”)…
The second thing you do is break up your org chart into brackets. There is no bracket for the CEO and COO…
When you have the brackets set up, you put a multiplier next to them. There are no hard...
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Complete List of Behavioral Interview Questions →
Even though I hate behavioral interview questions and think they’re abused, I think there are some gems in this list that could be useful to interviewers if used properly.