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10 Ways You Need to Change How You Think and Talk to Succeed at Sales
Sales

10 Ways You Need to Change How You Think and Talk to Succeed at Sales

To be awesome at sales, you have to break certain social rules. Sales aficionado Peter Kazanjy shares how to create new habits that will help you win.

Influencers Aren't Born, They're Built — Here's How
People & Culture

Influencers Aren't Born, They're Built — Here's How

Serial entrepreneur and networking maven Angie Chang deconstructs the art of influence in three steps.

The Most Dangerous Leadership Traps — and the 15-Minute Daily Practice That Will Save You
Management

The Most Dangerous Leadership Traps — and the 15-Minute Daily Practice That Will Save You

Sought-after leadership coach Chris Holmberg on the mistakes he sees too many leaders make, and the best way to sidestep them.

The Three Tools Netflix Used to Build Its World-Class Brand
PR & Marketing

The Three Tools Netflix Used to Build Its World-Class Brand

Netflix's former branding guru shares the frameworks startups need to build enduring brands.

How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas
Product

How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas

Dropbox's product engineering leader shares how a hybrid product development approach propels its best ideas.

What Startups Can Learn from General McChrystal about Combining Strategy and Execution
Management

What Startups Can Learn from General McChrystal about Combining Strategy and Execution

Yammer Co-founder Adam Pisoni speaks with General Stanley McChrystal about the lessons technology companies might take away from his new book Team of Teams.

This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
Management

This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers

Twitter's former Director of Engineering shares the plan he uses to transform engineers into successful and happy managers.

AppNexus' First Pitch — Before It Steered Around the Cloud to Win Big in AdTech
Fundraising

AppNexus' First Pitch — Before It Steered Around the Cloud to Win Big in AdTech

AppNexus opens the vault and shares its very first seed funding pitch deck, created before its impressive pivot.

How I Structured Engineering Teams at LinkedIn and AdMob for Success
Engineering

How I Structured Engineering Teams at LinkedIn and AdMob for Success

LinkedIn’s SVP of Engineering shares the team structure and mindset that clinched its $2.5B IPO.

Speed as a Habit
Management

Speed as a Habit

All things being equal, speed will determine whether your company succeeds or not. Here's how to make it core to your culture.

What Startups Can Learn from Watsi’s Wildly Successful Email Campaign
PR & Marketing

What Startups Can Learn from Watsi’s Wildly Successful Email Campaign

Watsi became the first nonprofit backed by Y Combinator in 2013 and is still breaking new ground with brilliant marketing campaigns. Here's what startups can learn from their winning streak.

Product Leadership Rules to Live By From My Experience at Pandora
Management

Product Leadership Rules to Live By From My Experience at Pandora

Pandora's VP of Product Jack Krawczyk offers the six tactics you need to lead product managers.

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For the founder's notepad:
"If you personally want to grow as fast as your company, you have to give away your job every couple months." – Molly Graham
“Asking ‘Why can't this be done sooner?’ methodically, reliably and habitually can have a profound impact on the speed of your organization.” – Dave Girouard
“End every meeting or conversation with the feeling and optimism you’d like to have at the start of your next conversation with the person.” – Chris Fralic
“Focus is doing things with a clear intention. It doesn’t mean you charge single-minded toward a goal. It means you pay rapt and incremental attention to how you need to turn the rudder on a project.” – Fidji Simo
“It’s essential to grow with the company — rather than having the company grow around you.” – Cristina Cordova 
“You have to be impatient with shipping, but patient with your career.” – James Everingham
“‘I trust you, make the call’ might be the six most powerful words you can hear from a manager.” – Sean Twersky
“Your job as a CEO is to build fire departments, not put out fires.” – Sam Corcos 
“Can you say with confidence that each report would want to be on your team again? If you aren’t sure that the answer is yes, it’s probably no — much like how if you have to ask, ‘Am I in love?’ you’re probably not.” – Julie Zhuo 
“People can get addicted to yak shaving. An effective engineering generalist knows when to move on. Pay attention to whether they used their time wisely, not just the results.” – Mike Krieger 
“It sounds so simple to say that bosses need to tell employees when they're screwing up. But it very rarely happens.” – Kim Scott
“You’ll know you understand the customer problem enough when you can predict 75% of what a customer tells you. Keep having these conversations until three-quarters of it is stuff you already know.” – Christina Cacioppo
“I have a rule: no company swag until the business has at least $250K of revenue or 250k users. Until then, you don’t get to “feel” the benefits of having started a company.” – Gagan Biyani
“The business model ends up becoming the business. It’s equally important as the market you’re going after and the product that you build.” – Jay Simons 
“If speed is the yin, the yang is prioritization. You can’t be fast if you don’t know what’s important.” – Jaleh Rezaei
“If you treat your connections as a kind of personal ATM you use for frequent withdrawals, you’ll quickly be disappointed (and overdrawn).” – Karen Wickre 
“Delighting the customer always yields better returns than countering or copying a competitor. It’s just a lot harder to do.” – Andy Rachleff 
“When you’re a founder, every moment you’re not writing code or getting users, you need to be making a conscious choice: Is whatever you’re doing worth your time?” – Alexis Ohanian
“‘Why would a customer not want this?’ is often a far more interesting question than why they would.” – Rick Song
“When you leave the planning process wondering if you put too many resources behind a single bet, that’s the bet that ends up succeeding. Bold ideas need bold resourcing.” – Lenny Rachitsky and Nels Gilbreth
“Treat customer development as a one-on-one with a direct report — you just want to ask the hard questions.” – Ryan Glasgow
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