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From the Operators

Operators from Netflix, Credit Karma, ZenPayroll, Eero, and more share their top suggestions, tips, and tactics for creating a great brand in "Our 6 Must Reads to Build a Brand That Breaks Through the Noise"

Paul Breloff of Shortlist suggests that competency tests and structured interviews are key when interviewing candidates and aiming to hire the best talent in "Two tried and tested ways to recruit all-star teams"

Sulagna Misra of Lattice uses four quadrants to explain the value of emotional intelligence, covering control and awareness for both oneself and others in "Managers, you can raise your EQ"

Brian Donohue of Intercom argues that the best product teams have no single leader, although this is qualified with several considerations that make facilitation easier, in "Why product teams work best without a single leader"

Jason Fried of Basecamp shares how Meetup.com initially explained their product using an incredibly simple table, and wonders if other companies could do the same thing in "The best visual description of a company I’ve ever seen"

From the Investors

Jackie Vouthouris of Corigin Ventures calls workaholism an epidemic, and provides three goals their team is implementing to help founders be healthier in all respects in "Why I’m Putting Founder Wellness and Development at the Center of our Platform"

Morgan Housel of Collaborative Fund acknowledges that the current funding market may have lost sight of the fact that a great business is the way to make something last a generation in "Great Products vs. Great Businesses"

Parul Singh of Founder Collective argues that pattern recognition is a fundamental flaw in the current VC model (and has coined the phrase "hoodie check" which we're totally going to use) in "The Case Against Pattern Recognition"

Jason Lemkin of SaaStr has seven (we even count eight) truths about partner programs that companies should know before planning on partners being their next giant revenue stream in "7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program"

Craig Shapiro of Collaborative Fund uses Meetup's recent acquisition by WeWork as an example of why New York has such opportunity to be a true competitor to Silicon Valley in "New York’s Venture Ecosystem Just Leveled Up"

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