commoncog.com
The Skill of Org Design
20+ min · · Building effective organisations is a remarkably useful, if rare, skill. This is what it looks like, what it consists of, and how to tell if someone has it. · Shared by 114, including excellent-analytical-tiger, John Cutler, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Taylor Pearson, Jacob du Toit, Kevin_Indig
bettermarketing.pub
17 Extraordinarily Effective Email Subject Lines You Can Steal
8 min · · “Sure, you *could* send a fruit basket” · Shared by 6, including excellent-analytical-tiger
Reset Work
'Fair Pay' by David Buckmaster: A Nike compensation chief on how to get a raise and make pay fairer
5 min · · Fair Pay provides both high-level and specific recommendations for how to reform compensation—which is useful reading especially as companies are deploying pay to recruit and retain an increasingly… · Shared by 125, including excellent-analytical-tiger, Dominik Grolimund
mynameisjehad.com
Designing a scalable design organization
8 min · · Design is finally getting the spotlight it has deserved for a long time. Designers are in high demand at the moment. This is partially due to an overall strong market for tech talent. It’s also… · Shared by 47, including Steven Sinofsky, Nicolas Dengler, excellent-analytical-tiger
Atlassian
Here's what a 4-day workweek is really like
10 min · · We tracked hours worked, team performance, and well-being during our experiment. And the data doesn't lie. · Shared by 286, including Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, excellent-analytical-tiger, Vincenzo Tremonte, Joe Lencioni, Oliver Raduner, Christian Müller, Ines Bieler
startupsthisishowdesignworks.com
Startups, This Is How Design Works
12+ min · · A guide to understanding digital & physical product design for startups · Shared by 481, including Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Davo ⚡, platzh1rsch, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Matthias Sala, Parin Vachhani, Jonas Kamber, Daniel Williams, Courtney Bolton ★, Will Hoag 🏔‼️, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Scott Berkun, Erica Weiss Tjader, Dominik Grolimund, Kam, designshard, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Thomas Power, Sacha Roger, Beautiful Pixels
UX Collective
Why small teams win
7 min · · Scaling meaning before scaling teams · Shared by 240, including Esther Schindler, hiten.eth, Philip Junker, Steve Rayson, Jonas Bandi, Christian P. Stobbe, Michael Musgrove, David Hellmann, Helmi, Niklaus Gerber, Andreas Spiegler, Tim Herbig, Chris {he, they} , Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Fabricio Teixeira, Rodrigo Prior, Nick Floro
Steven Sinofsky
Functional versus Unit Organizations
Summary · 20+ min · · Some personal history, and pros/cons of organization structure. · Shared by 321, including Bryan Onel, Chris Calo, Dominik Grolimund, Mark Kaigwa, Bertrand Maltaverne, Florian Stambula, @r3to@mstdn.social, kp, Veronika Lampion, PotHix, Jacob Jarnvall, Pat Kua, Florian Hanke 🍎, getAbstract, Thomas Eichmann, excellent-analytical-tiger, Liza Sperling
medium.com
Lessons Learned Scaling Airbnb 100X
11+ min · · On my first day at Airbnb, in early 2011, I walked in to see cofounder Joe Gebbia building my desk. I had spent three months slowly… · Shared by 544, including Dominik Grolimund, Gerd Leonhard, krisdahn.eth, Bram Kanstein, Pat Kua, Herbert Bay, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Danny Prol, Anand Sanwal, Startupxplore, Tim Herbig, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Azeem Azhar, Hugo Amsellem, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, andrew chen, Josh Elman, Thomas Power, designshard, Mark Kaigwa
Stripe
Guide to scaling engineering organizations
17+ min · · Lessons learned from scaling Stripe's engineering team. · Shared by 102, including Matt, Thomas Eichmann, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, ErmanTaylan.eth, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Thomas Wong, Stefan Weber, Patric Fornasier, Davy De Pauw, Tom Connor, excellent-analytical-tiger
TNW
18 best places to promote your startup for virtually nothing
8 min · · When you have launched a startup or prototype, one of the most important strategies to prove is your business concept and gaining early user traction. If you’re like most startup founders, you don’t have much money, nor do you have enough money to hire a PR agency. However, to become a great entrepreneur means you […] · Shared by 614, including L. Taylor Banks, Shawn Venasse, Raul Tiru 🌎, Dominik Grolimund, designshard, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Elia Palme, Sara Usinger, Daniel Stefanovic, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, krisdahn.eth, Antonio Vieira Santos, Thomas Power, Courtney Bolton ★, Matthias Sala, Harsha Mv, Mathias Böhm, Brent Summers, Parin Vachhani, Lord Travis Wright
Lenny Rachitsky
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
16+ min · · Considering every startup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. Particularly anything actionable. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent… · Shared by 799, including Brian Halligan, Florian Graillot, Thomas Power, Brent Beshore, Jonathan Kogan, Ben Tossell, Ryan Hoover, Niti Shree, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ha Duong, Bri Kimmel, Bryce Roberts, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Version One Ventures, hiten.eth, Chris Messina, Johannes Lenz, Amy Jo Kim, Chris Isak, scott belsky
a16z.com
16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
10 min · · We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the… · Shared by 1075, including Jeff Jordan, Thomasbcn, Moritz Meenen, Ryan Boren, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Gabriel Weinberg, Vinny Lingham, AdrianLocher, Startupxplore, Bernardo Mannelli, Thomas Power, Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, Bram Kanstein, John Cutler, Herbert Bay, Tim Herbig, Peter Hogenkamp, Courtney Bolton ★, Lord Travis Wright
GV
The Design Sprint — Google Ventures
5 min · · The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. · Shared by 1240, including Mark Kaigwa, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Moritz Meenen, Thomas Power, Courtney Bolton ★, Kunal Bhatia, Tom Bruehwiler, David Luescher, Chris Messina, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Zain Fathoni, Damian Madray, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, ThomNagy, Greg Meyer, Alex Barrera, Dominik Grolimund, Katja Evertz, John Zeratsky, Marko Saric
Sam Altman
Startup Playbook
Summary · 20+ min · · Written by Sam Altman · Illustrated by Gregory Koberger · Spanish translationWe spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us… · Shared by 1888, including Sergio Caredda, Lord Travis Wright, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Herbert Bay, Mark Bao, Moritz Meenen, Zee, Raul Tiru 🌎, Courtney Bolton ★, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Philip Junker, designshard, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, L. Taylor Banks, AdrianLocher, John Battelle, David Smooke, Jeff Chang, Nir Eyal
OpenAI
Summarizing Books with Human Feedback
· Scaling human oversight of AI systems for tasks that are difficult to evaluate. · Shared by 132, including Tauno, Mark Tabladillo PhD, excellent-analytical-tiger, Sam Altman, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Alexander Seifert, Nico Müller 🇺🇦