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How To Be A Great Manager
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February 19, 2013. How To Be A Great Manager. The prerequisites for being a great manager are:. Sincerely and deeply caring about your team and company. Having empathy, self-awareness, organizational awareness, perspective, maturity, and security. If you possess those characteristics, you can become a great manager in practice by doing the following:. Seek and provide open, honest, and frequent communication of all kinds. Your relationships with your team set the foundation for everything else. Stron...
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Jared Cohen
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August 25, 2014. 4 Reasons Why Your Company Needs To Always Be Learning. At each of my last few startups, I instituted a program where employees teach each other stuff. It’s called Always Be Learning or #ABL (because everything needs a mysterious hashtag). Every company should have a similar program (adjusted to your needs, size, and culture). It improves the skills of employees. Sometimes in more relevant ways (grammar, SQL), sometimes in less relevant ways (I won’t point fingers). It’s really fun!
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Learn the Basics of Computer Science and Web...
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September 09, 2012. Learn the Basics of Computer Science and Web Development. Two and a half years ago, I started doing every computer science and web development tutorial I could find. If I were starting again today, knowing what I now know, I’d do it something like this. Start with the basics of computer science and programming. Introduction to Computer Science I. David Malan, Harvard Extension School. Understanding Computers and the Internet. David Malan, Harvard Extension School. John Guttag, MIT.
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Jared Cohen
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April 08, 2014. How To Value Your Startup Stock Options - Discount Value. In the last several years at Kickstarter, SeeMe, and advising startups, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to build models for awarding stock options in the fairest ways possible, talking to startups about the models they use, and thinking about the different ways to value companies and options. Discount Value = Number of Options x (Investor’s Price for Preferred Shares - Your Exercise Price to Buy Common Shares). In practice, if the ...
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Jared Cohen
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April 01, 2014. Ten Tips for Getting a Startup Job (Even If You Have No Experience or An MBA). I’ve applied for hundreds of jobs, been ignored or rejected almost as many times, read thousands of applications, been on one side or the other of hundreds of interviews, and been part of hiring over a hundred people across three startups and in finance, law, and advertising. Ten tips for getting a startup job:. Get your name out there in every way possible and take every opportunity to learn. One tailored appl...
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Jared Cohen
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April 01, 2014. Ten Tips for Getting a Startup Job (Even If You Have No Experience or An MBA). I’ve applied for hundreds of jobs, been ignored or rejected almost as many times, read thousands of applications, been on one side or the other of hundreds of interviews, and been part of hiring over a hundred people across three startups and in finance, law, and advertising. Ten tips for getting a startup job:. Get your name out there in every way possible and take every opportunity to learn. One tailored appl...
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Jared Cohen
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August 25, 2014. 4 Reasons Why Your Company Needs To Always Be Learning. At each of my last few startups, I instituted a program where employees teach each other stuff. It’s called Always Be Learning or #ABL (because everything needs a mysterious hashtag). Every company should have a similar program (adjusted to your needs, size, and culture). It improves the skills of employees. Sometimes in more relevant ways (grammar, SQL), sometimes in less relevant ways (I won’t point fingers). It’s really fun!
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From Lawyer to Startups: My Poorly Executed But...
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January 21, 2014. From Lawyer to Startups: My Poorly Executed But Successful Career Change. How’d you get that job? And now back to the story…. I wrote typical, forgettable cover letters. I attached my resume with good schools, grades, and jobs. An application that I was so sure would make me special. The kind of application I’ve now seen a thousand times. I got the response I deserved: almost none. Eventually, I got one. I also decided I was going to try coding. I told the engineers, who I had becom...
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Jared Cohen
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April 08, 2014. How To Value Your Startup Stock Options - Discount Value. In the last several years at Kickstarter, SeeMe, and advising startups, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to build models for awarding stock options in the fairest ways possible, talking to startups about the models they use, and thinking about the different ways to value companies and options. Discount Value = Number of Options x (Investor’s Price for Preferred Shares - Your Exercise Price to Buy Common Shares). In practice, if the ...
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