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Startup Tricks Wiki

Tricks, tools, and resources learned while founding and operating startups

[Tools](#tools)
[Real Startups’ Toolstacks](#real-startups-toolstacks)
[Tools by Category](#tools-by-category)
[Cap Table Management](#cap-table-management)
[Collaboration](#collaboration)
[Recruiting](#recruiting)
[Good Retained Recruiting Services](#good-retained-recruiting-services)
[Making Homepages](#making-homepages)
[Making Pitch Decks](#making-pitch-decks)
[Design](#design)
[Development](#development)
[Debugging](#debugging)
[Ergonomics](#ergonomics)
[Other Electronic Hardware](#other-electronic-hardware)
[Tricks and Advice](#tricks-and-advice)
[Resources/Advice For Startup Beginners](#resourcesadvice-for-startup-beginners)
[Hiring](#hiring)
[Accounting](#accounting)
[Fundraising](#fundraising)
[Investor Updates](#investor-updates)
[Interviewing](#interviewing)
[Interviewing Assistants/Ops/Chief of Staff Candidates](#interviewing-assistantsopschief-of-staff-candidates)
[Interviewing](#interviewing)
[Management Tips/Concepts](#management-tipsconcepts)
[Misc (#Good)](#misc-good)

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https://founderkit.com/

https://x.com/natiakourdadze/status/1806386019828486208?s=46&t=CcQ9QvnBZ-uAJqzjufp3OA

https://capiche.com/

Capiche is a repository of information and discussions about the software we use to get things done. Instead of relying on agenda-driven sales, marketing, and customer success teams, we can rely on each other.

What split inboxes do you use in Superhuman?

#book The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building Kindle Edition

Tags:, hire, services, Hires, &, services, that, you, should, put, extra, effort, towards, in, hiring/securing

Lawyer

Bank account (Mercury recommended by AbstractOps (over Chase, SVB, First Republic, etc.)

Services that are more or less commoditized

Bookkeeper, payroll, designer (Fiverr and Upwork offer great contracted design services)

Landing page not super important early on

Tags:, interviewing

Engr

http://codingchallenge.jacobcole.net/

Interview Flow from Binc

Chief of Staff

#todo #private Interview Guide for Chief of Staff

Tags:, chromeExtension

Tabs Outliner

1Tab

Quick Tabs (search/switch tabs)

Hunter: Find email addresses in seconds

GSuite Tricks

When to make emails like hiring@ideapad.io users instead of groups on GSuite – reason if you want to be able to send an email from hiring and it's a group it's not elegant to do that . Similarly want to be able to send emails from:

Support

Sales

Info

[It’s not necessary to make cos@ideapad.io a user because if the chief of staff changes, you can just setup email forwarding or an auto-responder & be sure to cc cosarchive@ideapad.io on anything worth archiving which would forward to jacob+cosarchive@ideapad.io](mailto:jacob+archival@ideapad.io)

Make notifications@ideapad.io a user not a group

Preventing read receipts in Superhuman

Command + K → Image settings → block all tracking pixels

[https://www.insynchq.com](https://www.insynchq.com/error-report?app_ver=3.2.0.40833&os=Mac-x86_64-10.15.5&email=jacob%40ideapad.io&work=AddCloudGDItem&exception=IntegrityError&err_msg=UNIQUE+constraint+failed%3A+fs_

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New parts of Shadi’s stack: Monday.com for team task management, Atom teletype for pair programming, Pastel for leaving design feedback on live pages.

M’s stack (Seed stage ops): pocket evernote zoom grammarly adblock lastpass docsend vocus (later:) hubspot.

Ideaflow (Seed+ stage)

Slack, Figma+Sketch, G-Suite, Zoom, namecheap.com (not great UI), name.com (slightly better, but still imperfect UI, more expensive)

GetCloudApp.com (gif capture), Screen.so (really good remote collaboration shared mouse), Superhuman for email, Dropbox Paper for some random side tasks (often used big/small, urgent/non-urgent table for task prioritization), 1Password, SimpleNote (for quick plain text knowledge capture/scratchpad synced with phone), InSync for syncing google drive, Otter.ai for incredibly good voice transcription for meeting notes, Speechify - incredibly good text-to-speech for turning articles/books into audio content (can convert from a picture), Voice Record Pro for low-space audio recording, Keyboard Maestro for recording and executing key strokes

Magic Virtual Assistant service (used to send NDAs, pay parking tickets and simple tasks. Only somewhat competent, but cheap & mostly but not perfectly reliable on basic things)

DocuSign for legal document templates, sending out employment contracts, etc. (Hellosign may have better UI)

Gusto (payroll), Zenefits (benefits; fyi Blueshield Platinum Healthcare is good for things like acupuncture). Independent remote accountant (Los Gatos/UKB) , QuickBooks. Silicon Valley Bank (decent interest rate, UX is clunky, recommended First Republic). Brex credit cards (has receipt tracking/good UX), not using Brex cash as of 6/2020 (not great interest rate). WSGR + Gunderson law firm (possibly rec. Gunderson or others over WSGR). GivingTrax for donation matching & tracking

Linear.app for Eng task management, Notion for specs. React, Typescript, VSCode/IntelliJ IDE, Logrocket, Firestore + AWS/MySQL, Github.

Medium for blog

Thistle.co for healthy meal delivery. Mealsquares.com, Owyn (Tumeric “Mylk” - protein/meal shakes).

Jarvis standing desk (with FluidStance balance board & Sidekick rolling locking cushioned file cabinet, exercise ball for sitting), Roost portable laptop stand

Tile for finding things (laptop, car keys, backpack)

Accelerators: StartX (Applied/accepted as non-Stanford founder. Turned down YC)

FoundersPledge - supportive community

Leadership/Employee Development: Nonviolent Communications/CLG (Conscious Leadership Group)

First Round Mentors, StartX Mentors. MIT VMS (Venture Mentoring Services) Mentors

Final

Internal Comms

Slack, GSuite

Customer Support

Zendesk, Intercom (eventually dropped)

Customer/Potential Customer Comms

Mailchimp, Twitter

Ops

Gusto, Metabase

Dark

Internal Comms

Slack, GSuite

Ops

Gusto, Segment, Heap, Brex

Customer Comms

Mailchimp, Mailgun, Twitter, Slack

Carta (also does 409A) – $6k+ / yr

https://captable.io/

https://pulley.com/

[Screen.so](http://screen.so) - Really good remote mouse pairing/double mouse controlling from the screen hero guys

Notion.so - For team wiki (some UX complaints, but is useful to have even if you have G-Suite)

Standard Stuff:

Slack

G-Suite - Google drive, gmail, etc for enterprise

Figma - For design. Lacks certain drawing features, like magic wand, so you still need sketch and/or photoshop on the side

Airtable - FYI, good for dashboard for presentation purposes & visual links between shared tags

Post on http://hiringlist.jacobcole.net/

hiringlist.jacobcole.net

Post on http://angel.co/

angel.co

Small Co

Lever.co – not needed if hiring through your network (#ats applicant tracking system)

Or Greenhouse.io #ats

Triplebyte – was good a few years ago, may suck now

Good for after the first few hires:

[Up and Coming: Dover https://www.dover.io/](https://www.dover.io/) –

[Maybe https://www.turing.com/](https://www.turing.com/) #remote?

Generally don’t recommend retained recruiting services for early stage – really #doubledown on going through your network

ParkerRemick.com (esp. For executive recruiting / later stage but can also do principal engineer. #expensive. $100k for 6 mo search for 1 hire. Less for add-on hires)

https://www.bincsearch.com/ – worked well for some people to find principal engineers. Varies depending on quality of your recruiter there. ~$20k/mo.

As of Jun 2020, Webflow.com is best for no-code or semi-no-code editing

Webpage screen capture #tool: Full Page Screen Capture

chrome.google.com

Google Sheets

Beautiful.ai

[Looka](https://looka.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkpq_luyo6gIVzsDACh2NxgnKEAAYAiAAEgLvrfD_BwE) - Awesome automatic logo generator with AI

Invision App - For sharing moodboards. Google docs also works ok for this

Figma - For design. Lacks certain drawing features, like magic wand, so you still need sketch and/or photoshop on the side

Vercel.com (Formerly Zeit) - Allows you to easily make PHP-style webpages with JavaScript and generally fixes a lot of modern issues with frontend development

Retool.com -

Logrocket - Logs the exact state of the application in a user session

Cloud App - Really quickly create and share quick gifs of what’s on your screen and/or screenshots with a link

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Buy 10+ reehut or other yoga blocks for ergonomics (can prop up laptop for video calls, prop up your elbows for using your phone and do many other things)

Roost portable laptop stand

Ergodocs EZ split keyboard on mounted with rubberbands to metal vertical kinesis freestyle keyboard (tent) kit to make it vertical.

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Anker charging brick #t lookup on amazon & donglehub for newer macbook

At the very least read How to Start a Startup by Paul Graham

www.paulgraham.com

[Do YC Startup School](https://www.startupschool.org/) in the next cohort, whenever it is, and certainly watch all their videos

Actually become a really nice, helpful, warm, and giving person. Even if you’re a little rough, it’s a skill that can be learned with genuine effort! #management #teambuilding #communitybuilding #culture

Most popular options are:

- Pilot – haven’t used before but overall heard good review from founders (but most founders haven’t tried others)

- Indinero – had to spend time to find the right financial controller at Indinero to work with but had a terrific experience after I found him

- Quickbooks/Xero + traditional accountant – haven’t explored

Evaluation

- It’s more important to have a good bookkeeper than it is have good “tech” for accounting (since the efficiencies accrue to the accounting firm and not for you)

- Then it’s about the all in price after including things like R&D tax credits and filing taxes (Federal, State, Local, Franchise, etc)

What makes a good bookkeeper / controller (over and above getting the actual accounting right)?

- Knows the right questions to ask (doesn’t has irrelevant questions) and only has to ask them once

- Responsive to requests

- Has the right attitude

- Fast at incorporating feedback

- Great at solving problems proactively for you without having to ask for input every time

- Can handle troubleshooting for you and own the process (doesn’t just refer you to helpdesk)

Next steps

- Since I’m already familiar with Indinero, I’d likely just ask for a demo with Pilot

- Check out features (most likely similar)

- What’s onboarding like?

- What do you have to do month to month to upkeep?

- What do you have to do each year? Especially for taxes

- Then ask the sales rep why I should choose pilot over Indinero (and ask Indinero why I should choose them over Pilot)

[Apply on http://jcombinator.network/](http://jcombinator.network/) (esp. if you’re connected to Jacob) – a trusted network for founders and investors

Tips:

err on the side of saying less in investor emails. – Esp. if the conversation is going well, esp. if you’re the kind of person who talks a lot, and/or doesn’t know what implications saying something seemingly innocuous might have

Investor Update #Template

docs.google.com

If we had to create a guide to bringing the best out of you what would you give to us? <>Write operating manuals...  #interviewingAssistants #interviewing #hiring #interviewQuestion

How do we bring the best about of you #good #interviewingAssistants

High trust env

Ever  hired an assistant?

When you hire someone you are buying a network #interviewingAssistants

Special talents fish in water — research, pushing rounds through

People and customers

Can talk to - Talking with vps and above #interviewingAssistants

Eval network

@jm #interviewingAssistants anything that really offends you or anything that you won't do?

Pivot table #interviewingAssistants

Managing calendar — how do I specify regions of days I have to be In Palo Alto vs sc?

Managing pt and schedule @assistants @steph

Rec pilates #tt

Book Lori

Book Marian

Jarvis

Wccc

Sensei

@steph #interviewingAssistants Work on the quote graph

409A

Having a network like a housemate #interviewingAssistants

#investorCriterion get multiple communities together

Tap into these rich and connecting them

If we had to create a guide to bringing the best out of you what would you give to us? <>Write operating manuals...  #interviewingAssistants #interviewing #hiring #interviewQuestion

Why leaving #interviewing

Good school

Left job within year don't take the call

Do they like their job — good people are optimists

Tell me about project you managed or feature you built

Reactive ppl are pessimistic

People who were tutors or ta's or left phds

Look for ppl who left home co or region — or state

Any surprises — with product demo or whatever curious smart people are always surprised

Be an energy giver #principle #value max goodman patreon

People you've committed to work with aren't bringing energy in places you're asking to

What are you looking for

What's your ideal co

Si toy want to be early stage founder do everything or specialize

What bugs you in a co #interviewing - People you've committed to work with aren't bringing energy in places you're asking to

salary equity requirement

What prompted you to leave last

What are you looking for

What's your ideal co

Si toy want to be early stage founder do everything or specialize

What bugs you in a co #interviewing

salary equity requirement

What prompted you to leave last

@wing sure roam YC?

Product ux qa

Suggestions for improvements around campus

Short #interviewing #Criterion

Something challenging you went thru

If you went back to beginning and change how you went through #interviewing #StartUpTricksWiki

"The next three days are going to be f—ing hard. We've seen quality in you. That's why you're sitting here. Because we believe you have what it takes" #BehaviorChange

#tightCommunity SaS  https://youtu.be/l68pkQjXw2Y

youtu.be

Then ask if reviewed coding challenge / did work

The skill of being nice

Different people start with different aptitudes . But even if you don’t know it you can take to it like a fish to water

Write operating manuals — for you – how people should communicate or work with you #StartUpTricksWiki #Management

<>If we had to create a...

#StartUpTricksWiki #Management trying to not be defensive in anything really Dash always be just listening and incorporating feedback – this was the endorsement of Danny in the trust token video

When you receive a piece of negative feedback it’s an opportunity to become more conscious of something is the graceful #Reframe

“Funplace” vs workplace #goal #Management? -.-

How can I support you in improving this? #Management

Let’s do an emotional checkin #Interrupt

Startup weekly retrospectives #Management

#Management it makes people feel so good and gives them their energy back when you take time to respond to their ideas and appreciate the good ones and good aspects of them and show them how they have the potential to be great relates to Steven Spielberg‘s management style

Seeing the potential in people

I regret versus I’m sorry #nonviolentCommunications #Management #Pitching #communication

After listening carefully about what people’s circumstances are, tell them what they should do. This is good leader ship #Management #Recruiting #Hiring #BehaviorChange

Give Albert an environment where he can try on a new identity, perhaps a summer camp, maybe many people need this #Management -.-

Yo if got such a brilliant mind how is it taking you this long #Management

#Management #StartUpTricksWiki

As a side remark, one of the things that I do think Rafael and his teammates really have right is an understanding of team spirit and team culture and human behavior. As his cofounder Stephen Kade said, take a bunch of primates with natural instincts and desires, put them in a room, in a very constrained environment, expected to do a certain mechanical task generally unrelated to those desires, Day in and day out for most of their lives – it’s crazy to think that this works even the slightest bit!!

This is Stephen’s philosophy on leadership – seeing each employee as the human animal they are and trying to build an environment that caters to that human animal <>@david ~Stephen kade

The 15 commitments of conscious leadership #Book #Management

#Management Let me know when a good time to talk to you mindfully would be #work #phrase mindful

#Management you are needed

#Management #Meditation @david Please don’t stress about getting things done today, then, but only if it comes naturally

Interested to hear what you come up with from for the global to do list as an experienced founder, but again, no need to stress about getting this done today either.

In case you find it inspiring: i Was feeling really drained yesterday afternoon myself and went to go heat up some food and in the three minutes it took to start heating up the food I realized when I really needed to do was take a 10 minute qigong break

About nine minutes into that  I realized what I really needed to do was meditate for an hour

About 45 minutes into that I realized the truth of Gandhi‘s quote: “I meditate one hour each day except those days I’m too busy. Those days I meditate two hours.” So I ended up meditating two hours

I didn’t want to leave the sanctuary free of painful things and thoughts about the meditation created

I realized I didn’t have to And had the most magical evening wandering aimlessly around the neighborhood, meeting my neighbors for the first time. Then my friend I had been planning to catch up with came over and we somehow arrived at a shared desire to turn my room into a meditative sanctuary, and we made the biggest dent on cleaning it I have in a year

I woke up with joy bubbling in my belly and extending out to my fingertips, moving fast, and had one of the best business days I’ve had in a long while

#Management #startup #founder #ownership could call it heroic responsibility, maybe," Harry Potter said. "Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it's always your fault. Even if you tell Professor McGonagall, she's not responsible for what happens, you are. Following the school rules isn't an excuse, someone else being in charge isn't an excuse, even trying your best isn't an excuse. There just aren't any excuses, you've got to get the job done no matter what."

Help people get what they need #Management #StartUpTricksWiki

Maya Angelou once remarked, that “people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”#Quote #Management #EQ

#Management #consent #Massage #dating  do you want me to poke you more or less than I currently am? #StartUpTrickswiki

If you are willing to own it you get to make the call about how it’s built #Management

“I’m fact I’ll generalize: every great 5/5 hire I’ve ever made has been when I was looking for role x and found someone so amazing we made the role x++ just to accommodate their awesomeness “ #hiring

[#ats #hiring @startuptrickswiki [Gem - CRM](https://www.gem.com/crm](https://www.gem.com/crm))  <> mike’s friend

Add Headings (Format > Paragraph styles) and they will appear in your table of contents.

Dropbox Paper for some random side tasks (often used big/small, urgent/non-urgent table for task prioritization). Also use the special chrome create shortcut + open as window trick to transform a specific dropbox paper file, or any webpage, into a desktop app #t

way to turn any website into a standalone electron like app using new chrome feature

https://share.getcloudapp.com/P8ue1qlO

~davidg I just found and installed a vs code extension in about a minute called “Bookmarks” that lets you mark particular lines and shows them in a sidebar, super useful!

ProductBoard - roadmap #StartUpTricksWiki  @mike

A huge part of my value add and ability to get things done especially as a connector is sort of that I have a reputation for being helpful and having good judgment on things and therefore a lot of people sort of owe me favors and are willing to help me with other staff and therefore I can make a lot of connections and the difference between like Hiring I think a chief of staff and Hiring like an assistant is it expects or there's lots of differences but one difference is that I expect the chief of staff to sort of have a strong network and leverage their network to do all kinds of stuff including like solve problems and that's where like a lot of my life efficiency comes from inside great to solve problems from scratch on your own but like it's not so much more efficient to have a good network

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashrust_startups-fundraising-activity-6674411565300744192-1Vl_

Make intros

Team building Interest in each other as much as product #StartUpTricksWiki

[#StartUpTricksWiki https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation](https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation) #startupadvice

Volunteering, doing favors for people especially volunteering as a connector is a great way to build your network

Good reason to be in touch with someone like sriir #StartUpTricksWiki

Every time someone asks you for a favor that's an opportunity #Networking

We are finalizing our allocations for the round

It's a sign of weakness to have trouble hiring — warning #StartUpTricksWiki

Make angel investors prove themselves by referring potential hires #StartUpTricksWiki

Intentionally

Time boxed so we don’t have to be supporting everyone while doing dev

Establish first impression with investors

Part of the reason certain Valley works is because it’s like a village it’s so incest US and all the people know each other that you never know if you’re going to end up sleeping on someone’s couch or living with someone or working with someone on your next company for having them in Gastonia so there’s incentive for everyone to be civil to each other

Like a village

It was hilarious – two of people we’ve tried to hire later on became VCs we ended up pitching to #StartUpWisdom #StartUpTricksWiki

#StartUpTricksWiki The key thing is getting people to respond, so having a whole mix of things for them for you to ping them about not just the business thing is kind of essential. It’s a holistic relationship that has value separate from the immediate business thing and they don’t want to hurt their relationship by failing to respond on the business point

Cofounders as partners for life #StartUpTricksWiki

Doing social activities like going skiing best potentialh Court 10min because even one or two people who 10 really change the dynamic of a team newline doing occasional work related activities like checking out and analyzing how all the different machine learning start up‘s use machine learning for their competitive advantage

What’s kind of funny here is that what this all points at is the optimal search strategy for finding Additional court team mates might be going to college with people and having a fun time – there’s two key ingredients it’s a talent pool of people who have the relevant skills and then the social experience of getting to spend time with him in a lot of different challenges in contacts so that you can figure out do you want to spend time with and make real friends with

If you had to construct an ideal situation for finding cofounders or dating what would be better than college and how could we really lean into that and make this more overtly the mission of college and more over at least a good way for it to be set up

Learn best practices from Lucy’s house and OnDeck

Write operating manuals — for you – how people should communicate or work with you #StartUpTricksWiki #Management

<>If we had to create a...

A startup should be cool

Like being part of a band #culture

People complement each other’s skills and play off of each other

You do it for fun, it’s not work- art

It’s cool to be in a band

If your band is cool people want to join you – it’s a big honor

They don’t need to get that large to do great stuff

The people are friends

All have to be extremely talented – you can’t have mediocre members of a rock band

have to all people have to understand the problem intimately and everyone has to do their part because if they don’t do it no one else will

#StartUpTricksWiki #Management trying to not be defensive in anything really Dash always be just listening and incorporating feedback – this was the endorsement of Danny in the trust token video

When you receive a piece of negative feedback it’s an opportunity to become more conscious of something is the graceful #Reframe

#StartUpTricksWiki  -.- live remote from team

Unlike r

This way you can have your own day while people are working without disrupting

Don’t reveal to people that you are totally controlling your schedule to go see them #StartUpTricksWiki

Brother is neurosurgeon

Oh hey by The way my dad is a neuro guy and starting a sleep company #segue #StartUpTricksWiki

In certain environments like parties people need to be on their best behavior and most welcoming on their most welcoming behavior so is long as you don’t get too intense they are a good gentle ask #StartUpTricksWiki

At parties everyone is friends

The communities the groups that party together are in some ways it’s a little cabals that run the world #LatentVariable

You gotta imply that you have either access to investors or access to people you can hire #momentum #StartUpTricksWiki -.-

Email trick from startx

#StartUpTricksWiki People don’t want to feel like they’ve been disingenuously set up

host a party where are you incidentally invite the #PotentialHire and invite and see them hit it off independent of the narrowness of the potential work possibility #MontyHall

Make self a good guy to know but nonthreatening

Welcome to the camp of the dragon reborn

Lead can waive pro rata for everybody else. At least the majority preferred

And decrease to proportionally for everyone. Everyone should get a proportion

Investors willing to do a preemptive round

[#StartUpTricksWiki https://pilot.com/](https://pilot.com/) #Accounting #Bookkeeping

#StartUpTricksWiki Also, it’s better to get investor intros from non-investors when possible, because otherwise the investors are beholden to whoever connected them to us

#StartUpTricksWiki What I realized, now reflecting on the meeting with Naval,is that if you have an investor who is truly close to you, someone who you really care about, someone who has your own best interest at heart, giving them a larger allocation is actually not a problem at all

Because it’s like you’re giving it to someone you care about directly, and someone who will support you, perhaps even against other investors

So I think I’m going to be happy to give him as much allocation as he wants. Also, if you think your investor is someone like that, I’m also happy to give him more allocation

Street cred #StartUpTricksWiki

#StartUpTricksWiki if you give equity to people you have a good relationship with it’s not like you’re giving up any at all

Increasing options pool #StartUpTricksWiki

i want valuation to be higher

Invest in employees

The sense that I have way more than enough right now. How to get that, how to cultivate that in everyone? #StartUpTricksWiki

I need to switch back in the mode of not taking actions out of fear. Even meditating #framework #best #Epiphany

The lethani does not set its roots in fear

I have $1.5M!! Thats a ton! Get in touch w feeling of abundance ! When will be enough

I saw the notification out of the corner of my eye but I haven’t read it. Reading it’s not going to make anything better <>#Best remain in one place...

#Management #StartUpTricksWiki

As a side remark, one of the things that I do think Rafael and his teammates really have right is an understanding of team spirit and team culture and human behavior. As his cofounder Stephen Kade said, take a bunch of primates with natural instincts and desires, put them in a room, in a very constrained environment, expected to do a certain mechanical task generally unrelated to those desires, Day in and day out for most of their lives – it’s crazy to think that this works even the slightest bit!!

This is Stephen’s philosophy on leadership – seeing each employee as the human animal they are and trying to build an environment that caters to that human animal <>@david ~Stephen kade

#StartUpTricksWiki artful magnetic business card (more relevant to, for instance, a chiropractors office)

People don’t leave jobs they leave managers #Wisdom #StartUpTricksWiki

Instead of just jumping in and pitching build up a bunch of potential such that when the pit strikes it’s really hard, both directly and in a Monty Hall problem cents.

Friend since, if Mark and Jason has just described the ideal world and then it when you pop up your thing it is an example of this it’s much more compelling than if we did the other way around and beat the reason is his expectation will match with our reality versus if he first him if we first give a demo and then he just got his expectation at I might differ in someway be disappointing #Pitching #StartUpTricksWiki

People who rejected you from jobs can become mentors

In a. Industry where so many. Relationships are transactional it’s a powerful this to make real friendships #StartUpTricksWiki

Chain if yes #StartUpTricksWiki

#StartUpTricksWiki gsa auction site aeron chairs

Stanford surplus

Captable.io

captable.io

Startuprunway.io

startuprunway.io

https://ltse.com/tools

#StartUpTricksWiki get all the datasets you can get your hands on

They are goldf

I’d love to understand where our communication broke down or where there was a gap in our shared understanding I My or your understanding #StartUpTricksWiki

#StartUpTricksWiki if you’re managing it’s good to make Sunday night a work night

#StartUpTricksWiki vistage

Ken Ross mit investor club — Ross systems #EnterpriseSoftware #PotentialAdvisor

Something challenging you went thru

If you went back to beginning and change how you went through #interviewing #StartUpTricksWiki

#StartUpTricksWiki get potential contact phone numbers at parties/events

They reply way better than emails

Establish personal relationships  in person interactions. Business follow up questions can be handled over messaging #StartUpTricksWiki

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Thank you for the wonderful info Mike, and lovely to meet you, Qing!

It's so cool that it seems you are using your expertise and talents to the fullest scale possible to help people!

[As someone who has a penchant for being systematic, let me know if I can do anything to support your endeavors, from the hiring lists I maintain, or investor-founder matching I do with a project called http://jcombinator.network/](http://jcombinator.network/).

For context, on this introduction, if you are available to help, or know someone who might be a good match to do so, I'm currently trying to help my very long time friend's dad, Ashok Kumar, who has a really wonderful opportunity in front of him. The biotech startup where he was Director of Biology fell upon some economically challenging times and laid off their entire research staff, in the interest of focusing on the single drug they already had on the market. They had many other promising drugs in the pipeline, but without the research team, they don't have the expertise to commercialize them. The CEO verbally offered Ashok an opportunity to independently commercialize one of these drugs, which has already made it to phase 2 clinical trials.

Now the ball is in Ashok’s court, and he has to get back to his former CEO with a licensing proposal. He would really benefit from the opportunity to speak with someone who is able to advise him as to what terms / deal structure to propose.

Ashok is an incredibly kind person and, most of all, cares deeply that this compound, which may have tremendous potential to help people with a range of inflammatory diseases, not be lost in orphan drug purgatory.

Do you think that this is something you might be able to provide some advice on?

Many thanks!

Jacob

He also may be looking for a co-founder who could help with the commercialization at some point, but this is a ways down the road

Ashok now  needs to get

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I currently run a startup building a notebook that augments users' intelligence full time.

I'm so inspired to see people in medical community facing this way

acting on your convictions and insights that enable you to help people