TLDR Founders

TLDR FOUNDERS 2023-11-20

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02STRATEGIES & TACTICS

HIRING A VP? ASK THEM TO DO THIS

Alignment between yourself and your VPs is critical. Asking them to put together a 60-day plan puts a spotlight on their priorities and enables you to see if they map to yours.

saastr.com3 min read

BEST PRACTICES FOR SELLING NEW PRODUCTS TO EXISTING CUSTOMERS

Don’t even think about it until your NPS is high. Put all your energy into increasing NPS until you invest in new product development and sales. Once it’s high, where possible, sell through your existing buyers at the target company. Building new stakeholder relationships even within existing customers is almost as hard as building them with new customers.

saastr.com2 min read

03TOOLS & RESOURCES

USERBACK (PRODUCT)

Make iteration easier with contextual feedback, precise bug and issue tracking, and feature validation.

userback.io

WINN (PRODUCT)

Winn.ai handles all of your sales busywork so you can type less and win more.

winn.ai

04MISCELLANEOUS

WHY MICROMANAGING KILLS CORPORATE CULTURE

Transitioning from high-performing doer to leader involves delegating. Some people fail to make that transition and they end up sweating the details and micromanaging. To empower people to take ownership, you have to let go.

fs.blog3 min read

THE PRE-PMF GUIDE TO PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

In this article, a former product manager turned founder shares six principles that helped guide their product management before they had PMF. A key takeaway: traditional product management doesn't fit early-stage startups.

growthunhinged.com11 min read

ELEMENTS OF A GOOD APOLOGY

Learning the alchemy of a good apology helps. Whether it’s building bridges with your co-founder or owning a mistake you made to a customer, there’s a right way to apologize, and a wrong one.

kellblog.com4 min read