The Principles of Quantum Team Management
Instagram Head of Engineering James Everingham walks us through a different approach to management, drawing on science and machine-building.Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleThe Three Frameworks You Need to Kick-start Sales
TalentIQ VP of Sales Whitney Sales offers three indispensable exercises for startups seeking to build their early sales function and tally their first deals.Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleThe Recursive Product Strategy That Musk Used To Build An Empire
Serial entrepreneur and Civic Co-founder and CEO Vinny Lingham shares what it actually means to build a company for the long term. Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleSummer Book Recommendations from the Smartest People We Know
Introducing a new annual feature on First Round Review: The Summer Reading List. All year, we bring you advice from the best in tech. Here, they recommend the books that expanded their minds in...
View ArticleHow A/B Testing at LinkedIn, Wealthfront and eBay Made Me a Better Manager
Instacart VP of Product Elliot Shmukler shares how he uses A/B testing as a management framework to not only accelerate product decisions, but also empower product teams. Continue reading at First...
View ArticleThe Pivotal Stories Every Startup Leader Should Be Able to Tell
Since starting his career as a U.S. Marine, Don Faul has led operations at Facebook, Pinterest and now Athos. Here are the stories he tells to rally big teams to do their best work.Continue reading at...
View ArticleThe Goldilocks Effect and How to Harness Social Influence
Wharton professor and bestselling author Jonah Berger shines a light on the hidden forces that shape our behavior. Here he explains why it's best to influence — and be influenced — by...
View ArticleThe New 'Must Haves' for Mobile Apps to Succeed Today
Sophie-Charlotte Moatti has built mobile products at one flagship name after another — including running notifications for Facebook. Here are her must haves for mobile apps.Continue reading at First...
View ArticleTo Build Great Products, Build This Strong, Scalable System First
As Co-VPs of Product at Reddit, Alex Le and Kavin Stewart manage a large team with multiple competing goals. Here's what they've learned about building effective product pipelines.Continue reading at...
View ArticleDefining Product Design: A Dispatch from Airbnb's Design Chief
Airbnb VP of Design Alex Schleifer shares how design can become a more intentional, integrated discipline — and why it must be in order to better build products. Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleThe Price is Right: Essential Tips for Nailing Your Pricing Strategy
From buyer personas to feature preference surveys, Price Intelligently Co-founder and CEO Patrick Campbell offers indispensable tips on how to get pricing right. Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleHow The U.S. Forest Service Can Save Your Company From A Crisis
Company crises — like wildfires — are complex developments that can progress in unexpected ways. Simple's Head of Communications Krista Berlincourt outlines the principles and practices that can help...
View ArticleForget Technical Debt — Here's How to Build Technical Wealth
Andrea Goulet runs a software SWAT Team — parachuting in to help companies fix bad code that's holding them back. Here's what she's learned on the job. Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleThe Power of the Elastic Product Team — Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build...
Over the last 5 years, Jonathan Golden has watched Airbnb explode in size and productivity. Here's what that journey looked like on the product team that powered it. Continue reading at First Round...
View ArticleThe Rewards of Creator-Driven Cultures — And The Engineers That Can Deliver Them
From the earliest web browsers to cookies, JetInsight Co-founder and CTO Lou Montulli developed some of his most pivotal and enduring work in creator-driven cultures. Here, he covers how to create that...
View ArticleOKRs are Old News — Introducing Goal Science Thinking
Kris Duggan's entire job is to make goal-setting more effective. He's done the research and tried out many different strategies. Here's what worked the best.Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleWhat You Must Know To Build Savvy Push Notifications
With a few missteps, a push notification can transform from invitation to intrusion. Here, Noah Weiss, Slack's Head of Search, Learning and Intelligence, maps out the history and machinery behind push...
View ArticleOn Receiving (and Truly Hearing) Radical Candor
Candor Inc. co-founders Kim Scott and Russ Laraway have both written and spoken often on how to give radical candor to colleagues. Here they turn the tables and focus on how to receive it. Continue...
View ArticleThe Most Surefire Way I’ve Found to Win Enterprise Deals
General Assembly's Anand Chopra-McGowan shares the tactics that helped GA tighten its sales cycle to win big enterprise clients. Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleHow to Lead and Rally a Company Through a Layoff
For decades, HR leader and Mensch Ventures' founder Beth Steinberg has tackled complex talent challenges at some of the biggest names in technology and retail. Here, she opens her playbook on a topic...
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