Commission and Bonus Plans for Early Startup Teams
Your first commission or bonus plan sends a louder message than any value statement on the wall. Pay people for the wrong thing and they will deliver it …
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From idea validation to product-market fit: practical playbooks for early-stage founders.
How to Write a Startup Postmortem
Every startup has things that do not work: a launch that falls flat, a product line you shut down, a pivot, or sometimes the whole company. A good postmortem …
How to Set Startup OKRs for the First Time
OKRs can help a small team pull in the same direction, or they can turn into a spreadsheet nobody opens after week two. The difference is usually how you set …
Startup Hiring for Culture Add, Not Culture Fit
"Culture fit" sounds harmless, but in a small startup it often turns into hiring people who think, talk and look like the founders. Hiring for culture add flips …
Running a Startup on a Four-Day Week
A four-day week sounds like a perk only big, profitable companies can afford. In practice, small startups are often better placed to try it, because they can …
Startup Insurance: D&O, Cyber and Key Person Cover
Once you raise money, sign bigger customers or start holding sensitive data, a basic small business policy is no longer the whole story. Three covers come up …
Writing a Startup Elevator Pitch That Sticks
You will introduce your startup hundreds of times this year: at meetups, on calls, in emails and in the queue for coffee at a conference. A startup elevator …