From the Operators
Scott Harper of Dialexa explains an interesting motivation for bringing in creative outside teams that start their process by actually caring about why a firm is in business, what their motivation is, and effectively becoming bought into the firm's primary mission in "Creating With Innovation Partners - A More Mature Version of Outsourcing"
Michael Akilian of Clara describes how their team decided when the time was right to define their principles as an organization, as well as a great mini-playbook on how they went from defining the motivation to a final set of documented principles in "Clara’s Identity: Why and how we chose our operating principles"
Alex Ingram and Coulton Bunney of Flatiron Health explain the three most important questions that should be asked before running an internal sprint (in this context, for product design) in "The Three Questions You Must Ask When Running a Design Sprint"
From the Investors
Semil Shah of Haystack acknowledges the blatant apparency of Coinbase being his 2017 breakout company, but goes through the exercise of breaking down *why* through several interesting aspects in "The Breakout Tech Company Of 2017"
Manuela Müller of Village Capital cites a stat claiming that employees who go through structured onboarding are 58% more likely to stay long term, and provides the two critical discussion points for managers to discuss before onboarding in "Don’t stop at “You’re hired” —why you should care about onboarding"
Joanne Wilson of Gotham Gal Ventures uses statistics, logic, and straightforward common sense to further demonstrate that diversity should be a top priority for investors in "Investors should all care about diversity"
Andreas Melzer of Senovo follows up on the B2B SaaS financial model they published in July with the next version, downloadable as a spreadsheet, making it easier to account for value-added services and more in "B2B SaaS Financial Model v2.0"
Jared Sleeper of Matrix Partners explains why calculating a total addressable market is important for founders, and outlines three different methodologies behind coming up with a feasible number that can confidently be used when raising money in "How to calculate your total addressable market and make a great TAM slide for investors"
