From the Operators

Ohad Samet of TrueAccord shares stories throughout a career in tech to explain the power of a community and how it far outweighs the contribution of a single individual in "About leaving - As Risky As It Gets"

Yinon Weiss of CarDash has a primer for startup founders to determine their floor and ceiling when it comes to paying oneself in "How should founders determine their own salary?"

Donya Rose of Xactly presents two principles for a sales compensation plan, emphasizing that analyzing internal metrics is far better than relying on inflated data from compensation tracking sites in "BC Startup Sales Podcast – Building Winning Sales Compensation Plans with Donya Rose (Xactly)"

Erica Joy Baker of Patreon has a post-mortem on the state of diversity in technology for 2017 that is shared publicly as an updated GitHub repo

From the Investors

Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures says "we must speak up and make sure this kind of behavior won’t be tolerated no matter how powerful somebody is and no matter how many people they threaten and try to silence" in "Why We Must Have Zero Tolerance for Sexual Misconduct in Venture Capital"

Kelly Kinnard of Battery Ventures urges companies hiring senior execs to understand how different the process is when compared to hiring middle managers, and provides five common mistakes to avoid in "Hiring A Senior Exec? Make Sure You Avoid These 5 Compensation Mistakes"

Seth Levine of Foundry Group breaks down the two ways in which a growth curve changes, and suggests stepping back from a multi-year view to understand what micro changes are truly influencing growth in "How Startups Actually Grow"

Leah Busque of Fuel Capital reflects on time at TaskRabbit to illustrate how complex a marketplace is, and how strong (or fragile) they can be as more automation is put into place and more demand is generated in "The Anatomy of a Marketplace"

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