Ben Horowitz has a great post on his blog titled: How Andreesen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs. One of the key elements of their evaluation is decision-making. Here’s just a quick snippet from Ben’s post: Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. Therefore, a CEO can most accurately be measured by the speed […]
Startup CEOs: Masters of Alignment
If there’s one thing startup CEOs have to excel at it’s managing the alignment of interests across a ton of different people. It’s a lot more complicated than you might think. Alignment means everyone is pushing for the same goals and executing on their part in order to see the shared goals realized. It’s impossible […]
Startup CEOs: Delegate Responsibility Don’t Outsource It
So here begins a possible series of posts for startup CEOs and founders, based on my experience with Standout Jobs (and before that). I have a few ideas to work on, we’ll see what comes of them. Here’s the first… The role of startup CEO is to delegate responsibility, not outsource it. I’ve mentioned before […]
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