Charles Edge
What’s Your Currency?
I have a lot of conversations about how to price products in startups. It took a long time to realize that before any meaningful...
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Matt Raskin
- 5 min
Performance Conversations: Aligning Performance, Growth & Priorities
Purpose: Performance Conversations Performance conversations are the foundation for effective and healthy organizations to exist & grow....
Matt Raskin
- 4 min
04 | Talent Foundations: Onboarding Employees
Getting Started New employees experience waves of new people, places, tools, processes, and languages as they acclimate into their new...
Matt Raskin
- 7 min
03 | Talent Foundation: Recruiting - Qualification, Flow & Talent Selection
Previous Post: Recruiting: Planning, Prep & Talent Attraction Our previous post focused on establishing the foundations to clarify,...
Charles Edge
- 6 min
Learn 14 Critical Startup Skills… For Free!
Degrees from top universities can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. But a savvy founder can get a more specific, targeted...
Charles Edge
- 7 min
Methodologies To Calculate the Value of a Company
A friend of mine was once asked how much his house was worth at dinner. He said “I guess whatever someone will pay for it.” I was pretty...
Matt Raskin
- 6 min
02 | Talent Foundations : Recruiting - Planning, Prep & Talent Attraction
Previous Post: Talent Foundations: Art & Science It's now time to shift our focus towards identifying, attracting, qualifying, and...
Charles Edge
- 4 min
Tips On What Kind Of Business To Start
There are 5 main types of organizations that are founded. Each comes with positives and negatives and there’s really no perfect formula...
Matt Raskin
- 6 min
Talent: Buy, Borrow or Build
The Balance Nothing impacts organizational performance and culture like the people we select to become a part of our company. Ensuring we...
Charles Edge
- 4 min
Dealing With The Distractions In A Startup
Distractions can destroy our productivity. But leading a startup means there’s a constant barrage of things that need to be handled....
Matt Raskin
- 4 min
01 | Talent Foundations: Art & Science
The task of defining, finding, selecting, on-boarding & growing talent is time, energy & capital intensive. Often, an organization's most...
Matt Raskin
- 2 min
00 | Talent Foundations: Attraction, Selection & Growth
Take 10 seconds to think about your organization and reflect on the following question: Can you name a part of any business that works...
Charles Edge
- 3 min
"I" vs "We"
An organization, almost by definition, has more than one person. A key goal for leaders in any organization is to keep people inspired....
Matt Raskin
- 3 min
Clarity: Goals, Roles & Behaviors
A lack of clarity can contribute to some of the most challenging, stressful, and sometimes dangerous moments we experience in business (and
chip908
- 3 min
From Chip's Reading List
I am a perpetual student. And I have had the privilege of working with some of the most effective folks who share this quality. I spend...
Charles Edge
- 4 min
Let's Not Forget To Take Care Of Ourselves
As we start to re-open offices and get back to normal (or find a new normal), there's going to be a lot of new pressure applied here and...
chip908
- 8 min
Define Goals, Purpose, Key Performance Indicators, Frequency and Audience for Better Reporting
Timely and relevant information is critical for leaders of any organization. This improves decision making for our teams to chart...
Charles Edge
- 4 min
Some Tips On Being A Great Listener
A great listener is almost empathic. They can make anyone feel important and like they have something worth hearing. Everyone does have...
Charles Edge
- 4 min
Balancing A Job And A Startup
There are a lot of ways to bootstrap a company. In the early days of building a product, this often means that we’re working a day job to...
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