Daniel Jakaitis

Growth

So You Want to Be a Founder?

I am not (yet) a successful founder, so take what I say with a grain of salt. However, there are a few lessons I want to share.

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Early Stage Recruiting

Today's hiring climate is uniquely hard for young startups. Incumbent growth companies raising massive amounts of money, record low labor participation, digital burnout, and more are contributing to an obstacle course of hurdles when sourcing talent.

Deep Dive

Insurance for Startups

If your CEO tweets like Elon, you might want to check your D&O Insurance policy. While you probably spend most of your day thinking about shipping and selling products, you still need frameworks in place to defend yourself against potential costly lawsuits in the future.

Culture

Improving Mental Health at Your Startup

Burnout and mental well-being in startups are even more precarious than in traditional work settings. Tight deadlines combined with fewer resources, a lot of ambiguity, and a high likelihood of failure place substantially more stress on startup teams and founders.

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First Time Founder Finance Stack

Finding the best accounting and finance software for a startup can be a challenge. Here is our finance tech stack for your startup.

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Running an Effective Employee Onboarding

An employee's first few days at your company are formative. Providing a structured onboarding program and making new hires feel welcome

Finance

The Cash Flow Manifesto

Cash is the lifeblood of an early-stage startup. Improperly managed cash flow will take down a startup before it's had the chance to grow.

Finance

Investor Relations For Startup Founders

Writing investor updates consistently is important for company success. Startup founders use different tools and processes for updating investors. Learn how to set up an investor relations process.

Deep Dive

When Robots Have Feelings

Founders are taking advantage of the new remote-first world to rethink personal interactions and push the boundaries of what can be automated. Enter: “people-ops-as-a-service.”

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6 InfoSec Practices Your Startup Needs Now

Ready for first steps in information security to maintain a secure startup? Use these six best practices for information security.

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Designing a Startup Hiring Strategy

As you add team members, your communication structure within teams becomes exponentially more complex. In practice, rapid hiring can lead to disastrous communication lapses unless planned for ahead of time.

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How to Set an Operational Cadence

An operational cadence is a blueprint for everything that happens at your company over the course of a year. Once you understand your cadence, you can coordinate the flow of the whole company.

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When Freemium Fits

As all aspiring private equity investors know, the first thing you should do when evaluating a business for purchase is to figure out how to raise prices. Counterintuitively, right after closing in early February, the first thing I did was set up a freemium pricing model.

Operations

Becoming a Customer Success Superhero

As companies in every industry compete to stay relevant to their customers, whether consumers or businesses, many have focused on improving

HR

Hiring for Rapid Growth

With Peloton's rapid growth, the recruiting team went from interviews at the ping-pong table to an enterprise-grade hiring process.

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5 Ways To Show Employee Appreciation

Employee Appreciation Day is Friday, March 5, so I’ve been pondering what that looks like as a newly remote company. With the rise of loneliness during the pandemic, some employees may be looking to their job for camaraderie and connection.

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Creating Company Culture

Kard is in the middle of a hiring spree, and the process has made me think about who we’re becoming as a company. At eleven people, we are too big to get away without defining our company culture but not yet large enough to be hiring a Head of ...

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Perfecting Your PEO

If you find yourself struggling to properly understand and put together things like employee benefit packages, a PEO can be your best friend

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How To Make Big Decisions

A startup is either growing or dying, and a well-positioned one should have a strong market, assets, and team. Should you join?

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Writing Better Cold Emails

In today's era of drip campaigns and automated sales message, a well-crafted cold email stands head and shoulders above its competition. The only way to write a great cold email is to be authentic and maybe even a little bit weird.

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Avoiding Delegation Downfalls

Delegation requires trust, and trust is earned. Start off with small outcomes and work towards higher stake assignments.

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Summit Your Goals

Building a startup is like climbing a mountain. Except this mountain has no trails so you can only use your best guesses to reach the summit.

Q&A

Defining Your Brand Identity

Singer is the former founding Creative Director at Of Mercer, where she helped grow the brand from its initial concept into a multi-million dollar company. Prior to that, she was a cofounder of womenswear brand Alex & Eli, responsible for brand strategy and visual identity.

Finance

Become a Financial Quarterback

As the CFO of YipitData , Eric Lesser has to have a quarterback-like vision on his company’s financial health. Eric manages the finance and

Operations

Passion Behind the Hustle

Ravi Sharma, CEO of OOTify, joins us this week. Ravi has had two successful exits in healthcare and clean technology and has incubated and invested in numerous technology startups through his family office...