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Writing for Startup Founders

We've worked at and with lots of startups over the years. Here are some thoughts and stories we have shared with our fellow founders and execs, roughly categorized by topic.  We send out new content semi regularly via our newsletter, Bursts of Color.

CEO Stuff

People & HR

CEO Stuff

Three Laws of Hiring Execs

Your Weekly Exec Staff Meeting

Your Team Today is Not Your Team Tomorrow

M&A 101 for Tech Startups

What is Venture Scale?

Do You Need a COO?

Better Board Meetings

Advice & Advisors

Culture & Company Values


Finance

People & HR

CEO Stuff

Hierarchy of Finance Roles

VC Pitch Deck Template

Financial Modeling 101

Investor Updates

Tax Planning for Founders

Extending the Runway

A Tale of Two Startups

Good CFO / Bad CFO (CFO Magazine)

Training for CFOs (The Information)

People & HR

People & HR

Sales & Marketing

Org Design 101

Hiring an HR Leader

Quarterly Salary Reviews

Down With Bonuses

Are Job Titles Important?

Beware the I-Formation

Check Those References

If Layoffs are Necessary

Holidays and PTO

Sales & Marketing

Announcements & News

Sales & Marketing

Have You Tried Raising Prices?

https://burst.vc/blog/f/when-n-is-small-building-a-sales-team-from-0-10-reps

Hiring a VP of Sales

Sales Commission 101

Revenue Operations 101

Building your CX Team

Whale Hunting

Badass Marketing

The 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint

Sales for Marketplace Businesses (video)

Management Tips

Announcements & News

Announcements & News

Welcome to Management 

Interview Less. Smile More.

Effective 1:1s

Is Micromanaging Bad?

Results vs Attitude

Managing Barry Bonds

Internal Comms

Training New Managers

Brown M&Ms

From Solid to Liquid



Announcements & News

Announcements & News

Announcements & News

Burst Capital, Chapter II

Introducing Burst Capital

Yelp's IPO Anniversary

Before Joining a Startup (Forbes)

Navigating the Valley of Death (Business Insider)

Leaders as Behavioral Economists (HBR)

The Road to IPO (Stanford video)


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