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"Hire a good talent, then get out of the way and give them room to do their job". (ie, don't meddle/micromanage) Is this good advice?

Paul Graham's latest article on Founder mode is making waves. In the article, Paul talks about the common management wisdom that I've quoted above …

Did this so much in the past. The easy - and wrong - way to do product management

Unconference? What is that? And why should you attend?

Everyone knows what a conference session is:

• A conference session has a pre-decided agenda, with pre-decided speakers
• Sessions are typically one-to-many between the speaker and the audience
• Interaction is only for a few minutes of Q&A at the end

Often …

I'm doing the online Technology Entrepreneurship course offered by Stanford this semester. For the first assignment, all participants are grouped with random team members into teams of 10. The assignment asks the teams to brainstorm 5 good startup ideas and 5 bad (eg: selling ice cubes in Alaska) ideas and …

I don't get it.

Many people who attend Chennai Open Coffee Club want to start on an idea or a business. But when it comes to figuring out how to make money, so many people get embarrassed and say "I dont want to run a business to make money, I …