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Startup Reading List June 16, 2017 Read. Digest. Enjoy! Have a great weekend Digesters! Startup Reading List Startup Digest is curated by: Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher Contact Zubin Chagpar at zubin.chagpar@startupdigestmail.com Now Hiring! - Techstars Program Manager, Berlin Along with the Managing Director, the Program Manager (“PM”) is tasked with the success of a particular Techstars program. This opportunity affords high visibility and responsibility as the PM works side by side with a prominent Managing Director, helping early stage companies through the Techstars mentorship driven accelerator model. Why Does My Engineer Care So Much About a Few Milliseconds? Adam Berlinsky-Schine Software engineers place a lot of emphasis on code performance. There is often tension between non-engineers who want more time to be spent on building new features and engineers who want to spend time on improving performance. The app seems perfectly fast to you. So why do engineers care so much about shaving a few milliseconds off of something that already seems to be pretty good? It's Never Too Early to Fire Lars Dalgaard "Using the NPV analogy, every minute you're not doing something, you are compounding the negative growth (not just money, not just time), because people are losing faith in you as a leader. In fact that's a higher cost than any of the other losses because it becomes a systemic, organization-wide problem: the company that employees no longer trust, that no longer demands or values their highest performance." Beyond the Fairy Tale Narrative Adam Smith "The idea that you can sell a startup and then "live happily ever after" post-acquisition, in particular, is a dangerous myth." Cofounder Disputes and Making Something People Want Jessica Livingston In this excerpt from Jessica's talk at the 2014 Female Founders Conference, she discusses the two most common reasons startups fail: cofounder disputes and not making something people want. Manage Subscription Submit Event Submit Resource View in Browser You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2017 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

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