Entrepreneurship

Notes

• everything is mostly about timing and luck, some advices by successful are useful but what works for one might not work for the other

Resources

• The first 18 months of a startup, (HN)
• No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
• The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Crafting a Personal Brand that Stands Out From the Crowd about Anjuan Simmons
  • speaking at conferences and writing publicly is a great way to show your work
  • blog is great automatic responder, isntead of crafting fresh response to every question you get you can just share what you have already written
  • the rest of the post: how to be good speaker and how to craft your talks
• The art of self-organizing engineering teams
  • self-organizing teams are able to: set their own goals, define & manage the process, execute work well, decide on team composition
  • helpful frameworks for self-organized teams are purpose, mastery, and autonomy
    • purpose - all teams need to find meaning in their work and have a vision, that is, clear idea of what it needs to achieve and why. Company wide goals are great way to give the team a purpose.
    • mastery - be experts of creating value by building impactful product, measuring its impact, and learning from the process
    • autonomy - involve whole team in goal setting, don’t micromanage, instead influence, guide and suggest
  • even self-organizing teams nead leadership
• Building Products at Stripe - interview with Michael Siliski, 12 year veteran at Google now working at Stripe
• The Role of a Product Manager