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Prompt, Precise Performance Reviews

Tony Mayo

Depending on the employee, this can be a short thirty-minute process, or take as long as two hours. [If It’s unlikely that daily reviews will continue long term, as an employee at this stage is usually on the way out. An added benefit of the reports is that no goal will be overlooked for long without action being taken.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries

Harvard Business Review

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

When you are a startup, there is relatively little to lose, mistakes are fixable, and a small amount of cash and a cohort of committed colleagues can go a long way. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.”