It’s been said time and again that people don’t quit jobs; they quit managers. And why do they quit those managers? Because those managers often don’t know how to manage. And one of the most common symptoms of this affliction? The poor, ineffective, muddled, and occasionally offensive delivery of feedback. Let’s embark on another Management Debt Series lesson focusing on this often misunderstood art.
In early 2017, I was feeling pretty on top of the world. I had left my role as an attorney in Google’s legal department a few years prior to take the very cold (and very naive) plunge in the entrepreneurial pool in Silicon Valley.
There are two separate paths to startup success. The first and far more celebrated path is the one where founders discover a novel way to address an existing problem in the world. They build a product or service, find early customers, and Voilà! A new business is born…
When you start a company, your job is to sell a vision.
Then you have to go build something that (if you squint) resembles that vision…
I co-founded my first startup in 2008. For those of you around back then, it was not the best time to raise capital.
But once we did raise funds, the business was unlocked. We invested in more product/engineering resources, improved our offering, spent on sales and marketing, and grew our profile, customer base, and revenues…
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