How to 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.
How to Strategic Partnerships for Startups Becoming a strategic partner involves extensive research, continuous engagement, and diligent planning, but the rewards can really pay off in terms of thought leadership, marketing, and most importantly, sales.
How to 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.
How to 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
How to The Anatomy of a Good Offsite Company offsites can inspire, motivate, and align your teams towards shared goals and prepare them for times of high growth.
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.
Growth Product-Led Growth: What Is It and How Do You Do It? Product-led companies are characterized by rapid growth, little cash burn, and diehard fans, but those results only come to those that follow the product-led growth framework.
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.
How to 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.
How to 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.
How to 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.
How to 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.
How to 6 Unconventional Customer Acquisition Strategies Much of customer acquisition is trial and error. Brainstorming new customer acquisition strategies is key to keeping your strategy fresh.
How to 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 ...
How to 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?
How to Avoiding Delegation Downfalls Delegation requires trust, and trust is earned. Start off with small outcomes and work towards higher stake assignments.
How to 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.
How to Why You Should Write A User Guide Decisions have always been hard for me, especially when I’m overwhelmed. For example, I break down in front of restaurants because I can’t decide if I want to go in or pick a different restaurant.
How to Review Performance Reviews Everyone's favorite time of year: performance review season! Roles in a startup change quickly, so the performance review process must adapt as team structure, company focus, and overall process also change.
How to Finish the Year Strong The End-of-Year Checklist: I like starting the year with an empty to-do list and a fresh perspective. As an obsessive list maker, this process naturally starts with another list...
How to The One Thing That Kills Startups The only thing that kills startups is hiring too fast. Calculating ROI on a new hire is very challenging. To start, you need to model out the initial cost impact on runway.
How to Can You Afford To Do Enterprise Sales? If you focus on enterprise sales, you will at some point need to show proof that your company has some operational integrity. SOC2 is the most common auditing procedure expected among early stage software startups. The SOC2 audit comes in two flavors: Type ...
