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Shanley: Company Growth Is Driven by New Marketable Features
“One it's like new marketable features. That's what drives your business. Like everything, the existence of your company growth, et cetera, is going to be driven off of like new marketable features, basically.”
Dave Shanley Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 16:55 The 3 Sliders Every Technical Founder Ignores
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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.”
Dave Shanley Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 14:29 The 3 Sliders Every Technical Founder Ignores
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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…”
Dave Shanley Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 17:38 The 3 Sliders Every Technical Founder Ignores
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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…”
Dave Shanley Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 4:44 The 3 Sliders Every Technical Founder Ignores
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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…”
Dave Shanley Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 5:47 The 3 Sliders Every Technical Founder Ignores
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