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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

From the Operators

Alex Carabi of Kodawari Coaching encourages you to align what you do with what you say and believe, even when it isn't easy in "Personal Branding: Gandhi Style"

Bebe Chueh of Atrium learned that confidence inspires emotional investment among other things while accompanying a VC to pitches in "How Justin Kan fundraises"

Brian Crofts of Pendo.io provides product managers with instructions on how to be leaders in their space in "The Rise of Product Leadership"

Ryan Himmel of BIDaWIZ has a few pointers for the right approach to make the road to investments less arduous in "What Every Startup Must Do to Get Investor Ready"

Wailin Wong of Basecamp has a 24 minute podcast for people who dislike meetings with listener-submitted stories including the dreaded meeting about a meeting in "Meetings are Toxic" [Podcast]

Nicolas Cole of DigitalPress recounts the advice he got from his mentor when deciding to pursue entrepreneurship full time in "The Single Best Advice I Was Ever Given As A Founder"

From the Investors

Hunter Walk of Homebrew believes starting, learning and iterating within your business doesnt happen in a single round in "For Fundraising, Seed is No Longer a Round, It's a Phase"

Harry Alford of Humble Ventures shares his perspective on what companies can expect to be judged on during the investment stage in "3 Ways Angel Investors Value Pre-Revenue Startups" 

First Round Review wants you to give helpful, specific, and transformative feedback to employees in "Our 6 Must Reads for Managers to Give Feedback That Helps People Grow"

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