Different brains communicate at different altitudes by default. A well-choreographed team implicitly understands this and works together to ensure important communications happen at the same level, and more importantly, are enriched by many levels of detail.
5 Ways First-Time Founders Can Maximize Their Productivity
As first-time founders know too well, there are only so many hours in the day. Taking their startups to the next level requires them to work productively — and not just be busy for the sake of being busy. To this end, we’ve developed a five-step productivity cycle that founders can use to supercharge productivity and make sure the right things are getting done.
The Journey Into Venture and Back Again: Gautam Gupta of M13 Ventures
Today’s guest is Gautam Gupta, Partner at M13 Ventures and founder (former CEO) of NatureBox, a digitally native brand of snacks. In this interview, Gautam talks about his unique learnings and journey from starting in venture, venturing out as a founder, and returning to venture!
7 Tips to Codify Your Startup Culture
Culture plays a pivotal role in the story of any startup. Create and cultivate a culture conducive to high-performing behavior and values-aligned talent, and great things can happen. Here are seven tips that can help you codify your startup's culture and bake it into the foundation of everything you do.
Accountability Frame for Early-Stage Founders: Transmuting Actions to Outcomes
In this post, we share the 5-Questions (Our Accountability Frame) that can inspire and encourage accountability— one that works with human nature rather than against it. The Accountability Frame can be used when addressing someone 1:1, addressing a group (1:many), and working with ourselves more importantly.
Rounding the Founding Team: The Balance of Natural Talent
How exactly can you quickly tell whether someone’s natural capabilities are complementary to yours without conducting a long-winded psychometric analysis? How do you determine the likely natural talent gaps in your initial founding duo or founding team? There are many ways to do this. But over the years, we have observed a pattern across multiple psychometric models and frameworks—one that can be distilled into four distinct talent footprints.
The Ascent from ‘Angel’ to ‘Institutional’: Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures
Today’s guest is Sheel Mohnot, Co-founder and GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). In this interview, Sheel talks about the journey from operator to angel, and now, institutional investor. If you are serious about getting into venture capital for life— you’ll enjoy Sheel’s sharing!