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Today’s guest is Adam Lawrence, a serial founder and currently the COO @Bolt. Adam is a growth-oriented startup leader with unique insights about manufacturing luck, hiring and unlocking talent, and being uncompromising about excellence. Adam is low-key, humble, and a builder by nature. His insights are based on first-hand experiences in the startup world. Enjoy!
Founder talent finds its way from all across the globe. However, not all of them have the right networks and resources to go from great idea to effective implementation. That’s where Unshackled VC comes in. Manan and the Unshackled VC team bring a high-performing approach to investing. They take the best, timeless practices of VC and make them even better!
There is a distinction between the habit of being productive and being busy —
Being busy is activity-based execution with no direction.
Being productive means executing the activities that bring you closer to the experience of personal and professional fulfillment.
So, review your activities and ask yourself:
What will completing those activities do for me?
What end result or goal do they lead me to?
By nature, life is about prioritizing activities that bring us the most fulfillment and de-prioritizing activities that bring us least fulfillment. However, there are often more things to be done than we can possibly do within a given frame of time. But time is just one aspect of the equation…
In the context of business, Talent Chemistry is the art of aligning diverse individual strengths, talents, and contributions, so that the output is greater than the sum of its parts (Talent Synergy). However, without undertaking a detailed, long-winded psychometric analysis, how can you quickly determine someone's natural talents even if you haven't worked with them before? In this post, we share exactly that.
A quick 2-question process to determine the zone of someone's natural talent.
What behaviors to look for to identify their natural talent footprint.
There are no short-cuts for emerging fund managers to solidify their position in the venture ecosystem— managers must:
Build relationships at scale.
Source investment opportunities.
Support the founder ecosystem.
Raise capital from LPs.
Emerging fund managers are prone to burn-out and must be thoughtful about their well-being. In this post, we share 3 things emerging managers can do to rejuvenate and recover without investing significant amounts of their time.
