An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

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Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. Included in that deck was something that caught some folks by surprise.

'Pela primeira vez no Brasil, temos gente rica assustada'

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Sócio majoritário do conglomerado Semco Partners e ex-professor de Harvard e do Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ricardo Semler tornou-se um dos empresários brasileiros mais conhecidos no exterior nos anos 90 por aplicar em sua empresa princípios gerenciais que ficaram conhecidos com

Warming Up to the Manager’s Schedule — Medium

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In Paul Graham’s 2009 blog post “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” he explains why programmers dislike meetings so much. As a technical cofounder who no longer codes, it has been a long transition to the manager’s schedule.

Three structuring options for reorganizing your Latin America startup in the U.S.

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You’ve built your operations in Latin America using funding from local friends and family and Angel investors and you are ready to raise a Series A round of financing (usually U.S.$1-3 million from institutional investors). First, congratulations.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

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Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

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One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they're on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more. There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses.

Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule, Investor’s Schedule

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You know it’s a really good blog post when the engineers are sending it to the product managers instead of the other way around. PG’s Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule was one that rocketed around YouTube teams when it was originally published summer of 2009.

Apps to Protect Your Array of Passwords

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We all know that we need to use strong passwords on Web sites. In fact, a different password for every site you frequent is wise. Good Web security hygiene creates two problems, however. First, you have to remember all those different passwords.

The Open-Office Trap

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In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors.

Advice to a Non-Technical CEO of a Software Startup

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One of the challenges of an early stage software start-up is whether to have a non-technical CEO who has a good set of relationships with prospective customers, or to have a CEO who really understands the technology and the art of software development.