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Quantum Leap your OKRs: Accelerate Q4 for your startup in under one hour

Tech CEOs: Are you pushing ever harder, yet running around in circles?. Exhausted team, missed goals, but no real progress?. What if less hustle could actually get you more velocity?

Midstage Institute is hosting Overcoming Startup Slowdown—Introducing the Silicon Valley Velocity System. Make sure to attend it on June 26.

I am hosting From Startup to Unicorn: A Systematic Strategy for Hypergrowth. #nyctech Join me! via @LumaHQ.

Good Product Teams Compromise on Scope. I was in Chicago for a #midstage client workshop today. The product and engineering team set themselves a goal to deliver more features on time. This got universal praise from the sales and support teams, of course.…

How to set the tone for a participative offsite. September and October are high season at Midstage Institute. #midstage #startup clients all need an #offsite for their annual and quarterly planning. These are 1-2 day meetings about…

Who owns *the success* of this meeting?. Last week we attended a meeting with one of our international #midstage tech #startups. As sometimes happens, the CEO had asked our #coach only to observe and to provide feedback after. The goal was to increase acc…

Why iterating on content is good strategy. This morning I observed the weekly meeting of one of our #midstage #startup clients. They are investing in content marketing, using an external agency to get started. As they found a lot of the content had to be…

Where do you go after product-market-fit?. People think that, after reaching product-market-fit, it is all about growth. The problem is people starts. defining growth in different directions. Obviously, startups strive for growth in revenues. But does tha…

Why executives give each other feedback in team. Tensions can run high in startups. With the many disappointments and failings inherent in the startup model, it is normal that executives start building up some resentment against each other. The standard…

Is this annual planning session going to bore your Midstage startup team to death again?. September is peak time for executive planning sessions. Almost any executive team feels they should get together to plan the next year or qua…

Am I the *only* one who can do this?. Working with #midstage startups, we often see founders/CEOs doing operational work themselves. Doing the books, coding a new feature, designing slides, negotiating sales deals. Even when the company already has fina…

When your team says it’s time to bring people back to the office, are you listening mostly to managers or to frontline contributors? There seems to be an emerging pattern that while frontline contributors are more productive working from home, many manage…

Such an interesting interview with @nejeed - with great insight about when it’s time to persist vs time to pivot in your startup!

Hey LinkedIn! If you’re new to following me, I talk about #scaleup, #techstartup, #midstage, #startup, and #founders. Let me know which topic interests you the most! ✒️.

Almost daily now I have a conversation with a Midstage startup CEO wondering how to respond to the "New Normal". Wondering if they need to change the plan, optimize for profit rather than growth, and how to keep their workforce mot…

For many startups, forming strong partnerships can be the difference between success & failure. Unfortunately, partnerships are rarely forged overnight. @keeladotco is one startup that has dedicated energy & personnel to forging successful partnerships.

After finding product-market fit, how can your startup find a balance between the product side and the commercial side? Listen to Livepeer co-founder Doug Petkanics talk about the flywheel that exists between the two sides.

It’s inevitable that startups will pivot at some point when it comes to their product or their market. But how do you know when the right time is to pivot your approach? @keeladotco founder & CEO Nejeed Kassam shares his startup’s pivot story.