Dave Shanley
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2021 by Dave Shanley · across every show →
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Jun 8, 2021 negative
Shanley: Big company executives are probably ineffective at tiny startups
“I see a lot of people like they go and just try to get anybody like, oh, this person was good at some big co, right? Like, oh, this is a Nike executive and they'll like, for sure they'll be affected in my tiny little startup is probably not the case.”
Jun 8, 2021 positive
Shanley: Healthy founder relationships require operating agreements that avoid consensus
“I think in every relationship, it's healthy to have an operating agreement that you're not going to do it all by consensus. Someone has to make the decision, and other folks, they can disagree, but they can commit.”
Jun 8, 2021 neutral
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Shanley: Building without sales and marketing feedback leads to wrong products
“In the absence of that feedback. Of like connecting with the team that's out selling it or the marketing team that's, you know, driving organic growth or whatever that is, you're just gonna like build stuff in a vacuum and it's not gonna be the right stuff. Li…”
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Shanley: Founders fixate on specific solutions instead of the problem space
“People fixate on solutions and they don't fixate on kind of like, they don't bubble up to the next level. That is the problems. And that problem space of like what they're trying to solve. They get really like in love with a specific solution and they are look…”
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Shanley: Inexperienced technical founders cannot evaluate business executive hires
“So it's ridiculous to think that suddenly magically you as a technical founder that hasn't been through the process before, hasn't run good market sales, marketing, business ops, like any of that stuff that you're going to be able to evaluate somebody's abilit…”
Jun 8, 2021
Shanley: Founders Who Keep Jumping Across Roles Become Liabilities
“Early days, everybody's a generalist. Then you filled that in with, like, very specialized people, people that are very good at, like, very specific things. If you try to just, like, jump into all these different areas, you just, you become a liability.”
Jun 8, 2021
Shanley: Clear Strategic Priorities Empower Autonomous Decision Making
“Imagine going to your organization and clearly communicating where those sliders are. You can measure what the output was, but you're clearly communicating those expectations so that all of the small decisions that people make that don't get flagged up and don…”