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The Tactical Guide to Becoming a Better Listener

When it comes to annual resolutions and personal development goals, listening usually isn’t very high up on the list. User research leader and author Ximena Vengoechea makes the case for why you should put more intention and effort into sharpening this skill, offering advice tailored to different levels and roles across the startup org chart.

The Art of Becoming a Better Listener — Tactical Advice for the Startup Setting

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How Managers Can Stop Fixing and Start Coaching

Anita Hossain Choudhry (The Grand, First Round) and Mindy Zhang (Dropbox, Oscar Health) draw on their experiences as executive coaches to unpack why managers fall into the “fixing” trap and make the case for adding coaching as a skill. They share four practical tools, sample scenarios and thoughtful questions to help managers put these concepts into practice.

The Best Managers Don’t Fix, They Coach — Four Tools to Add to Your Toolkit

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Start the new year off on the right footing with the 30 most impactful insights and ultra-tactical frameworks from every article we published in 2021. 

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2021

How to Hire, Onboard & Manage a High-Impact Design Org

From the high-level perspective of what makes for a great design leader, to the tactical suggestions around the slide that needs to be in your portfolio presentation, Twilio & Segment's Hareem Mannan shares useful advice for every stage of a designer's career.

The Design Leadership Playbook: How to Hire, Onboard & Manage a High-Impact Design Org

25 Tips for Purposeful Career Planning

Top startup leaders and operators share a tactical manual with 25 tips for direct reports to take charge of career conversations with their managers. 

The IC’s Guide to Driving Career Conversations — 25 Tips for Purposeful Career Planning

The Founder’s Guide to Building Community Like a Product

Pivots, MVPs and Community: How Joseph Quan, Founder & CEO of Knoetic, got his startup back on track by making community his wedge. He shares his hard-won wisdom and his six-step guide for building a community like a product.

A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First 1,000 Community Members

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How to Become a Feedback Magnet

Drawing from her career at PayPal, Intercom, GetYourGuide, and now as founder/CEO of Ascend (an online leadership program that empowers women) Shivani Berry shares her playbook for attracting more feedback.

The Best Leaders are Feedback Magnets — Here’s How to Become One

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The Framework for Finding Language/Market Fit

After more than a decade of running B2B growth teams at PayPal and investing at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner now spends his days helping early-stage startups with growth. He's seen firsthand how changes in a handful of words can yield jaw-dropping differences in conversion — and accelerate a startup's course to product/market fit. Here, he makes the case for starting with language/market fit first, and offers up his 4-step process for getting there.

Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds

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How Founders Can Get The Feedback They Need to Hear

After 20 years of executive coaching, Alisa Cohn shares advice for getting better at self-reflection, collecting feedback, and changing behavior.

The Feedback Founders Need to Hear — How to Grow Yourself To Grow The Company

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When it comes to turbocharging brand awareness for your startup, think podcast Interviews over ads. Tom Griffin, Head of Partnerships at Levels makes the case for why you should do a podcast tour for your startup, with a step-by-step guide for getting it right.  



The Playbook This Startup Used to Get Their Founders on 100+ Podcasts in 6 Months

How to Hire the Right Marketer for Your Startup

Should you hire a brand, product or growth marketer, and how do you know when you've found the right candidate? Maya Spivak, former marketing leader at Segment and Wealthfront, unpacks her frameworks for identifying the type of marketer your startup needs, interviewing and closing candidates. 

The Playbook for Hiring the Right Marketer at the Right Time for Your Startup

The Ultimate Guide to Running Executive Meetings

Frustrated with your Executive team meetings? We tapped 25 top leaders from the startup C-Suite to share their tested tips, from getting started with an executive team to crafting the agenda and tracking success. Whether you're a first-time CEO or seasoned startup leader, there are plenty of new ideas to try from folks at Superhuman, Lattice, Asana and more. 

The Ultimate Guide to Running Executive Meetings — 25 Tips from Top Startup Leaders

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The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different. Here’s his framework.

The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas

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Persist or Pivot? Advice for the Pre-Product/Market Fit Days

CEO Tara Viswanathan shares her biggest lessons from the early years of building Rupa Health — including how to pivot your way into the right product and build the winning team. 

Advice for the Pre-Product/Market Fit Days — This Founder’s Playbook for Pivoting with Purpose

50+ Interview Questions to Help Surface Underrated Qualities in Candidates

We've rounded up a curated set of attributes you may be overlooking in your hiring process — and the interview questions you can use to surface them.