Team and running the company
The largest group here. Co-founders, hiring, early hires, culture, leadership, governance, operations, and finding advisors and mentors.
132 resources, each credited to whoever published it. Sub-headings are the topic each was filed under in its source collection.
Advisors & mentors
- 3 Tips for Working With a Mentor
- Advice for Finding a Mentor (part of an AMA)
- Bad Advice (from investors) · Elad Gil
- Can’t Find a Mentor? Try My ‘Rule of 10’ Instead
- Find a Tough Mentor, You’ll Thank Them One Day
- How to Approach Someone to Be Your Mentor
- How to Get the Most Out of a Mentor
- Startup Advisor Equity
- Top Ways Startups Waste Money
- Want the Best Mentor? One Thing to Know…
- You’re Mentoring the Wrong Way · Hiten Shah
Co-founders
- A Few Good Minutes With Hubspot Cofounder and CTO
- Co-founder Conflict
- Co-founder Mistakes That Kill Companies & How to Avoid Them
- Do Technical Founders Need a Business Co-founder? · Y Combinator
- Does Your Tech Startup Really Need a Technical Co-founder? Yes. · Y Combinator
- Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur
- Founders’ Agreement Template · pandadoc.com
- Founders’ Agreement template and conversation guide · University of Pennsylvania Law School
- How to Choose a Co-founder · Elad Gil
- How to Fire a Co-founder · Elad Gil
- Lessons From a Large Founding Team · Stanford eCorner
- Selecting Co-founders
- Shareholders’ Agreement template · Startup Commons
- Should You Be the CEO?
- Team and Execution With Sam Altman
Culture
- 128 slide presentation · hubspot.com
- 5 People Who Destroy Your Culture · Elad Gil
- 50 Lessons From HP’s Company Culture
- A Controversial Take on Culture · Stanford eCorner
- A Conversation With Werner Vogels
- Building Company Culture · Greylock
- Core Values of Culture
- Culture at Coinbase
- Culture Isn’t a Chore · Hiten Shah
- Employee Selection Affects Culture · Stanford eCorner
- How Netflix Builds a Culture of Excellence
- Jeff Bezos on the Importance of a Truth-Telling Culture
- Netflix’s Freedom and Responsibility Culture Deck · peterfisk.com
- On Creating Business Culture
- Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- The Hubspot Culture Code · HubSpot
- What Startups Get Wrong About Culture
- Why Some Investors Care About Culture
Early hires
- 7 Early-Stage Recruiting Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again
- Hire a Gap Filler · Elad Gil
- Hiring Executives & Bad Advice · Elad Gil
- Hiring Techniques for Early Stage Startups: How to Get Your First 3 Employees · Elad Gil
- Hiring the First 5 Engineers: What Sort of People Do You Want on Your Team? · Elad Gil
- Hiring the Right People
- Hiring Your Early Team · Lenny’s Newsletter
- Hiring Your First Employee as an Entrepreneur
- How Do You Convince Someone to Join Your Startup?
- How Much Equity Should I Give My First Employees?
- MasterClass Live with Sara Blakely
- The Founders of Stripe and Pinterest on What Should You Look for in the First 10 Hires of a Company
- Top Lessons in Building Great Teams
Governance
- A Simple Tool to Create Effective Board Meetings · brianbalfour.com
- Board Basics · Mintz Edge
- Board Seat for Sale · Brad Feld
- Building a Great Startup Board: Part 1 · Greylock
- Building a Great Startup Board: Part 2 · Greylock
- Create Structure Out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later · Brad Feld
- High Functioning vs Low Functioning Startup Boards · Both Sides of the Table
- How to Choose a Board Member · Elad Gil
- How to Lead a Strategic Board Discussion · kellblog.com
- How to Prepare for a Board Meeting to Make Sure You Crush It · Both Sides of the Table
- How to Run an Effective Board Meeting and Make an Effective Board Deck · delian.io
- How to Stop Your Board Meeting From Going down a Rat Hole · Both Sides of the Table
- Managing Your Startup Board — A Short Presentation · Both Sides of the Table
- Running an Effective Board Meeting · Mintz Edge
- Startup Boards · Both Sides of the Table
- The Board Boss Delusion · kellblog.com
- The Ideal Financial Reporting Tempo for a VC-Backed Company · Brad Feld
- Who Should Be on Your Startup Board? · Both Sides of the Table
Leadership & management
- CEOs Who Are Pleasers Should Spend More Time With Customers · Brad Feld
- Conveying Vision to Employees · Stanford eCorner
- Decisions, Decisions. It Gets Harder as a Company Grows.
- Founders Can’t Scale: Fact or Fiction? · mjskok.com
- How a CEO Spends Time · Stanford eCorner
- How to be an Effective Executive · delian.io
- How to Start a Cultural Revolution
- Iconiq Insights: Seven Tips for Managing Remote Engineering Teams
- Leadership and CEO Succession · Greylock
- Managing Through a Crisis
- Money Doesn’t Solve Problems, People Solve Problems · Brad Feld
- On Micromanagement · a16z
- Silicon Valley Legend Unveils Her Best Operating Advice
- The Three Machines · Brad Feld
- What Is a Startup CEO’s Real Job?
Operations
- Choosing Your Startup’s Compass Metric · tobi.lutke.com
- How to Operate
- How to Work With a COO at a Startup · jackealtman.com
- Lessons From Scaling Stripe
- Managing Chaos: Responsibilities & Challenges of a Startup COO
- Operational Excellence Is the New Customer Intimacy
- Should You Hire a COO? · Elad Gil
- Startup CEO: Creating Your Company’s Operating System
- Startup CEO: Creating Your Personal Operating System
- Startup Operations
- The Rise of the COO Role · allisonpickens.substack.com
- Why “Ops” Is Taking Over Startup Land
- You Can’t Be CEO and COO at the Same Time
Recruiting & team building
- 7 Ways to Avoid the Biggest Hiring Mistake Most Entrepreneurs Make · mjskok.com
- A Scaling Magic Trick · Brad Feld
- Best Hiring Practices: Tactics From Duolingo Co-founder
- Build a Complementary Team (Bill Gross Idealab)
- Building a World-Class Sales Org
- Building the Initial Team for Seed Stage Startups · andrewchen.com
- Building Your Best Team · Greylock
- Don’t Make These Hiring Mistakes
- Employee Retention · blog.samaltman.com
- Engineering Funnel? 10 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Find and Hire Technical Talent · medium.datadriveninvestor.com
- Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good? · a16z
- Hiring, Managing, Promoting, and Firing Executives · pmarchive.com
- How to Become a Magnet for Talent and Assess Talent · delian.io
- How to Find and Grow Talent
- How to Hire · blog.samaltman.com
- How to Make Executive Hires at Your Startup · ThinkGrowth
- Layoffs at a Startup in This Economy Are a Reality – Here’s How to Do It Right
- Melanie Perkins on Finding a Technical Founder and Hiring Great Talent
- Reference Checks · jackealtman.com
- The Executive Recruiting Playbook · Greylock
Team
- A Practical Guide To Diversity and Inclusion in Startups · DiversityQ — Practices for diversity and inclusion within startup teams.
- Build A Diverse Workforce · Techstars — Techstars module on hiring for a diverse workforce.
- Building Culture · Y Combinator — Guidance on setting and holding company culture as headcount grows.
- Enrepeneurship and Mental Health · Techstars — Founder mental health pressures and practices for managing them.
- EQ For Entrepeneurs · Techstars — Emotional intelligence for founders: self-awareness, empathy, working with people.
- How to Build Culture of Rigorous Thinking (podcast) · Wes Kao — Podcast on building team culture around rigorous thinking.
- How To Get More Done · Techstars — Techstars module on founder productivity habits and time management.
- Navigate Cofounder Relationships · Techstars — Techstars guidance on working through co-founder dynamics and disagreements.
- Strategic Leadership · Wes Kao — Wes Kao material on leading and managing teams strategically.
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