Saturday Afternoon Reads - 26
Best Seed Pitch Ever
From Jeff Lawson, founder and CEO of Twilio
The Management Framework that Propelled LinkedIn to a $20 Billion Company
To make it work, a company needs to give its leader clear and singular decision-making power over the day-to-day
Lessons Learned from Bill Gross' 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures
From giving credit and sharing equity, to seeking out opposite skills and recruiting A+ talent, Gross, the founder of Idealab, shares the patterns to success for startups
Paul Graham’s Startup Advice for the Lazy
The most important pieces from Paul Graham's essays
Startups are Risk Bundles
In order to understand if a startup is making meaningful progress, it's useful to analyze it as a bundle of risks that must eventually be addressed
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
A pitch presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points
Fighting Factions
How Startups Can Scale Without Mutiny
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