Every investment is an emotional commitment to support and grow the business and to build long-lasting relationships with the founders.
Tom Tunguz @ Redpoint has a great short piece here – http://tomtunguz.com/the-love-affair
Mikeal Rogers’ perspective about processes and methodologies.
If you build a culture that values critical thinking over process you’ll end up with better and more exciting products.
Every process begins with a problem. Understanding the problem is more important than solving it. You gain a deep understanding of the problem through critical thinking. A process begins to develop to solve the problem. Your results when implementing the process will have a lot do with the culture you inject them into. Taking the process a startup might use and implementing it across a larger organization will not only encounter a lot of resistance but the participants will have different motivations and share a very different culture among the organization.
Read more at http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/a-prescription-for-boring-products.html
This is one of the best playbooks I have read about Engineering Management.
Thank you Yishan Wong (ex-facebook director engineering). It covers all aspects of operational product engineering. i.e. Recruiting engineers, technical leaders.
He also gives uncommon wisdom on encouraging talent, process and tools implementation and a healthy technology company.
A lot of these principles are also applicable to outsourced product development (OPD) vendors.
