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Team Mantras Every Leader Must Repeat communications leadership management scale-up Mar 31, 2019

Do you want to reduce communication time and increase productivity across your entire team? Here are some leadership mantras every leader must repeat!

If you’ve ever...

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How to Clarify Your Product Principles culture idea-stage product Mar 30, 2019

Are you struggling to take the complexity out of your product? Here's 10 principles that will help you build a simple, yet robust and deeply valuable offering.

Every new tech...

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Customer Interview Questions: What to Ask (and Avoid) communications marketing product Mar 29, 2019

Learn what questions you should be asking your customers, and why. This will help you validate your product ideas or features before you build them.

Several years ago, I created...

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How to Lead a Team Through a Crisis coaching management psychology Mar 28, 2019

As a young founder, my heroes were the leaders of great tech companies—CEOs like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. I’d watch them being interviewed and...

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How to Avoid Perfectionism at Work pre-revenue product sales Mar 25, 2019

Overcoming perfectionist tendencies is a challenge every leader faces. Here's how to strike a balance between doing enough and avoiding over-committing.

What’s the most...

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How to Effectively Delegate Problems to Your Team coaching leadership management Mar 24, 2019

As a manager, it's tempting to handle every problem yourself. Learn how to delegate problems effectively, and coach your team using the GROW model.

Like most of the founders I...

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Write a Better Company Vision for your Start-up communications founders fundraising leadership Mar 23, 2019

You need an inspiring company vision for where you want your company to go. Follow these steps to improve the way you communicate with your team.

The term vision...

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5 Key Tech Skills For Non-technical Founders idea-stage product tech Mar 22, 2019

Are you a non-tech founder that wants to learn some new technical skills? Here are five tech skills every founder should know that are easy to learn.

Expectations on founders...

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How to Recruit Top Talent to Your Startup culture founders hiring Mar 20, 2019

Learn how to get the very best talent on board at your start-up with these 9 steps for recruiting top talent.

What do Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and David Ogilvy have in...

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How to Build a Product Distribution Strategy communications marketing pre-revenue Mar 19, 2019

If you need to design a go-to-market strategy that helps you win market share and acquire new customers, this formula will help you find the right approach.

My favourite lecture...

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