Done Right, A Performance Review Is One

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One Of The Top Causes Of Startup Death - Right After Cofounder Problems - Is Building Something No One Wants.

Even Your Most Talented Employees Have Room For Growth In Some Area, And You're Doing Your Employee A Disservice If The Sum Of Your Review Is: 'you're Great!' No Matter How Talented The Employee, Think Of Ways He Could Grow Towards The Position He Might Want To Hold Two, Five, Or 10 Years Down The Line.

Launching A Start-up, You Need To Get A Lot Done Quickly. Every Day Is Different. Everyone Pitches In With Everything. It's Easy For The Founding Team To Say, 'we're Flexible. We All Help Out With Everything!' But When It Comes To Making Decisions - That Flexibility Can Spell Inefficiency And Disaster.

My First Company Failed Completely. And It Failed At About Ten Months Old. I Had About 12 Months Of Savings, So When It Failed I Was Thinking: 'do I Go Back To Work?' And At That Point I Believed So Deeply In What I Was Doing That I Couldn't Imagine Anything Else Other Than Trying To Make This Business Work.