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Stop Sending Pitch Decks as Attachments - Here's Why and What to Do Instead
22 Dec 2025Stop Sending Pitch Decks as Attachments - Here's Why and What to Do Instead

Stop sending pitch decks as attachments. Send a hosted, shareable briefing instead and invite investors to a quick call with them. Open a page that explains the opportunity in plain terms and lets them see the core metri…

Zero to IPO - Frederic Kerrest's New Book Coming in April 2022
22 Dec 2025Zero to IPO - Frederic Kerrest's New Book Coming in April 2022

Recommendation: Read this book to map your path from zero to IPO with a milestone-driven plan you can apply this quarter. It uses an episode-by-episode structure that keeps founders focused on concrete steps and measurab…

How to Leverage Intuition, Customer Support, and Raw Effort with Colin Zima and Omni Looker
22 Dec 2025How to Leverage Intuition, Customer Support, and Raw Effort with Colin Zima and Omni Looker

Recommendation: Start each week with a 60-minute intuition audit tied to a concrete measurement and documented in your omni workflow to track change and drive actionable steps with Colin Zima and Omni Looker. Frame your…

9 Process Improvement Methodologies - How to Choose the Right One
22 Dec 20259 Process Improvement Methodologies - How to Choose the Right One

Start with a focused pilot to implement one methodology that directly targets the main bottleneck. Define the goal you want reached, and ensure teammates are able to contribute from day one. Plan the implementation in a…

Fighting Factions - How Startups Can Scale Without Mutiny
22 Dec 2025Fighting Factions - How Startups Can Scale Without Mutiny

agreed charter should be your first action: bind founders and senior leads with clear decision rights, veto thresholds, and escalation paths. For a rostov-based team, tie these rules to concrete milestones so people see…

Find, Vet, and Hire the Best Product Managers - A Practical Guide to Superior Product Leadership
22 Dec 2025Find, Vet, and Hire the Best Product Managers - A Practical Guide to Superior Product Leadership

Start with a concrete 90-day plan that delivers early value. When you interview candidates, look for ones who can spell out how theyll move a productmarket strategy from insight to action using customer signals, in weeks…

Key Areas of Improvement for Managers - Essential Leadership Skills to Master
22 Dec 2025Key Areas of Improvement for Managers - Essential Leadership Skills to Master

Map your goals this week and pick one competency to practice. In a one-week sprint, document a concrete plan in a compact planner and track daily results for coaching one direct report. This approach keeps ones attention…

How to Build and Grow the Human Side of Your Engineering Org
22 Dec 2025How to Build and Grow the Human Side of Your Engineering Org

Start a 90-day mentoring sprint that pairs each engineer with a dedicated mentor, and visualize progress in a shared dashboard with measurable outcomes. Make the process efficient by tying sessions to concrete skills, re…

How Etsy Grew Female Engineers by Nearly 500 in One Year
22 Dec 2025How Etsy Grew Female Engineers by Nearly 500 in One Year

Target outreach , a structured internship-to-full-time pathway, and measurable targets drive results. In Etsy’s case, female engineers grew by nearly 500 in one year, rising from about 120 to roughly 600. weve seen that…

Good Taste in Software Engineering - Principles & Practices
22 Dec 2025Good Taste in Software Engineering - Principles & Practices

Adopt a compact, public API surface with trustworthy contracts and automated builds. As kellan once talked, such a setup yields reliable systems. The public nature of decisions invites reviews, while technically grounded…

Good Leaders Are Great Storytellers - 6 Tips for Telling Stories That Resonate
22 Dec 2025Good Leaders Are Great Storytellers - 6 Tips for Telling Stories That Resonate

Start with a concrete moment that reveals the core challenge a team faced, then show the action taken and the result in plain, memorable terms, so the audience feels the stakes from the beginning. Leaders gain trust when…

Startup Marketing Hiring Playbook - When to Hire the Right Marketer
22 Dec 2025Startup Marketing Hiring Playbook - When to Hire the Right Marketer

Hire after you can prove impact with a scoped pilot. Run a 6–8 week paid marketing test focused on one objective, such as demos or qualified trials, with a budget of $4,000–$8,000 and a target lift of 20–40% in that funn…