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Product

ClassPass’ Founder on How Marketplace Startups Can Achieve Product/Market Fit

It's rarely a straight line to product/market fit. Here are ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia's hard-won tips for marketplace startups that helped her guide her company from a near-bust to a $470M game-changer.

People & Culture

Cut Through The Small Talk and Connect — Lessons from 130+ Dinners, Summits and Salons

Anita Hossain has a gift for turning conversations into community. Throughout her career, she's found ways to help leaders cut through the small talk and surface what matters.

People & Culture

Here's How Women and Startups Can Accelerate Pay Equity in Tech

Over two decades, Jana Rich has seen hundreds of compensation negotiations, including patterns in who wins, who loses and why. Read on to learn how startups can begin with good comp hygiene early on, and what candidates can do to be empowered and equipped to get the comp they deserve.

People & Culture

Clean Up Corrosive Interpersonal Dynamics on Your Team with This System

Laura Gates has repaired interpersonal dynamics for orgs ranging from NASA to Shell Oil, from the military to tech giants. Here's the system she recommends to startups.

Management

Use This Equation to Determine, Diagnose, and Repair Trust

Anne Raimondi has headed up product, marketing and operations at big names throughout tech. This one lesson is at the heart of her approach to leadership.

Management

Read This Before Joining as Employee 1 to 20 at a Startup

Should I work for a startup? Before deciding, find out here the best employee tactics to survive in a starting business and thrive as an early employee.

PR & Marketing

How New Startups Can Win at PR — Advice from a 20-Year Comms Career

Terra Carmichael leverages two decades of comms experience with companies like Eventbrite, Yahoo, Mattel, Nike and more to dispense advice to young startups finding their footing with the press.

Management

A Taxonomy of Troublemakers for Those Navigating Difficult Colleagues

Disruptive technology is one thing. Disruptive co-workers are another. Here, Dr. Jody Foster classifies the types of colleagues whom others find difficult — and advises how to navigate working with them.

People & Culture

We Studied 100 Mentor-Mentee Matches — Here’s What Makes Mentorship Work

Whitnie Narcisse runs First Round's Mentorship Program and has learned exactly what it takes to make mentor-mentee relationships truly transformative.

People & Culture

Here’s How to Wield Empathy and Data to Build an Inclusive Team

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, D&I leader Ciara Trinidad lets the data speak. When she left her last startup, the 125-person company was 59% women, its sales team had gender parity, and underrepresented minorities constituted the majority of its product team. Here she shares why a culture

People & Culture

The Three Secrets to Executive Recruiting I Learned at Apple, Yahoo and More

Jennifer Rettig brings her recruiting expertise from Target, Apple, Yahoo, and — most recently — Looker, to share the tactics that will find your company the best executives.

Management

Humans Hate Being Spun: How to Practice Radical Honesty — from the Woman Who Defined Netflix’s Culture

Patty McCord created the famed 'Culture Doc' that became Netflix's foundation. Here, she talks about how to make honesty everyone's default.