Friday, December 7, 2012

Cofounders and startup management

Questions to ask potential cofounders. And a neat slideshow on "How to run a 5-whys" - this is apparently a buzzword for a post-mortem.  Which is itself a buzzword, I suppose.

The point is: in a human organization moving at great speed, mistakes simply will be made.  It is essential to understand the mistake and to construct systematic ways of improving - otherwise the mistakes will simply continue to be made.  People are fallible.  "Trying harder" isn't a solution.

The point of the slideshow is that it's imperative to use humor to circumvent people's sense of shame at failing.  Otherwise you won't stop failing.

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