How to Manage

Lecture 15: How to Manage Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.)    Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) When you are making a critical decision you have to understand how it will be interpreted from all points of view. You have to be able to see the decision through… Continue reading How to Manage

How to Operate

Lecture 14: How to Operate Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.)    Keith Rabois (@rabois) People are irrational. Building a company is taking all of the irrational people you know and putting them in one building and living with them for twelve hours a day at… Continue reading How to Operate

Company Culture and Building a Team, Part II

Lecture 11: Company Culture and Building a Team, Part II Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.)   Patrick Collison (@patrickc) John Collison (@collision) Ben Silbermann (@8en) Run a company based on what you celebrate. (Ben Silbermann) The amount of things you can personally be involved in diminishes… Continue reading Company Culture and Building a Team, Part II

Company Culture and Building a Team, Part I

Lecture 10: Company Culture and Building a Team, Part I Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.)   Alfred Lin (@Alfred_Lin) If you don’t have a good culture in the company you can’t pursue your destiny. Why does it matter? First Principles Alignment Stability Trust Exclusion Retention If… Continue reading Company Culture and Building a Team, Part I