451 Posts found for Source: First Round Review

When you are guided by consensus, it often means you are reaching the most vanilla or neutral outcomes.

Content: Quotation | Author: Noah Desai Weiss | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Management, Organizational Behavior

Alignment is the fundamental challenge with almost every large company. Communication is hard, and people are just busy. But if you can crack the code and keep your organization aligned and focused, it’s like a superpower for velocity.

Content: Quotation | Author: Noah Desai Weiss | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Data can help solve easy problems, but it doesn’t actually solve the hard problems. A hard problem can’t be solved by experimenting your way out of it. You have to figure out if it’s a big swing you want to take. You do that by using intuition.

Content: Quotation | Author: Noah Desai Weiss | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior

Expert advice from Dropbox, Figma and Stripe on timing your first sales hire, finding the right candidate profile and creating effective onboarding to successfully transition from founder-led sales to a scalable revenue team.

Content: Article | Author: Meka Asonye | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Human Resources, Marketing / Sales

As managers, our jobs are simple: Get people to say what they’re going to do, get them to do what they said, and make sure they understand how what they’re doing maps up to making the company win.

Content: Quotation | Author: James Everingham | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Management

The great myth of entrepreneurship is that the founder’s path will get you all the autonomy, validation and recognition that you’re craving. It won’t — definitely not right away, and often not at all.

Content: Quotation | Author: Emily Anhalt | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Entrepreneurship

As a founder, instead of thinking, “Can I do this by myself?” you should be thinking “Do I have to do this by myself? Or would someone else benefit by taking this on?”

Content: Quotation | Author: Emily Anhalt | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Founders work for 10 years like no one else will so they can live a life no one else can. They take smaller salaries and sacrifice relationships for the 1% chance that their company will exit.

Content: Quotation | Author: Emily Anhalt | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Successful leaders keep an eye on the personality traits that have helped them achieve their success. Strengths without self-awareness become weaknesses. Strengths examined regularly become superpowers.

Content: Quotation | Author: Emily Anhalt | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Personal Development

First Round partner Meka Asonye sits down with founders and first sales hires to unpack 6 specific tactics for learning to embrace founder-led sales instead of avoiding it.

Content: Article | Author: Meka Asonye | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are sharing a huge amount of qualitative data, too — and a lot of companies either don’t know how or forget to act on it. Every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. If you go above and beyond on the customer service side, people … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Stewart Butterfield | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Customer Related

If there’s one pitfall that companies fall into, it’s that they focus on the why for the business instead of the why for the users.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jiaona Zhang | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Customer Related, Management

Line up 30 meetings with potential customers before you write a single line of code. You get much better at your pitch after the first five meetings. After the first 10, you start to see patterns. After 20, you really understand segmentation of the market. After 30, you have a really good understanding of what it is that you actually need to go build.

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael Sippey | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Customer Related, Innovation, Market Research, Marketing / Sales

When you can understand and articulate your customers’ goals and struggles and anxieties in simple, precise language, your developers and product teams will not have to guess at what to build.

Content: Quotation | Author: Matt Lerner | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Customer Related, Innovation

Trust = (Credibility + Reliability + Authenticity) / Perception of Self Interest

Content: Quotation | Author: Anne Raimondi | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trust

Can you say with confidence that each report would want to be on your team again? If you aren’t sure that the answer is yes, it’s probably no.

Content: Quotation | Author: Julie Zhuo | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

“I trust you, make the call” might be the six most powerful words you can hear from a manager.

Content: Quotation | Author: Sean Twersky | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Management

Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.

Content: Article | Author: Krista Moroder | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

For the 12th year in a row, First Round Review rounded up 30 timeless company-building insights they published from the year before.

Content: Article | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Four top execs reveal their annual planning secrets from Notion, Stripe, Vanta, Linear, Linktree and more. From addressing AI to adjusting org charts, this COO, CFO, CPO & CRO share insights so startups at any stage can build effective, realistic plans.

Content: Article | Authors: Cristina Cordova, Jiaona Zhang, Rama Katkar, Stevie Case | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Planning, Strategy