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Bob DePasquale's avatar

All great points, the first thing I thought of was the quality of documentation so I'm glad we're on the same page.

Janna McGregor's avatar

This is a great assessment checklist! I'm sure these teams are running much more smoothly after you come into the picture.

Katie Barnes's avatar

Thanks, @Janna McGregor I sure hope so :)

Juan Salas-Romer's avatar

Love how simple and practical you laid this out.

Geoff Wilson's avatar

Thanks for this insight into what you're checking for. How would you describe the size / scale of these startups that you're going through these mental checklists with? I ask because I get the sense that you're either talking about a startup that has started generating some steady and growing revenue and/or already in ready to scale up phase?

The context for my half-question (😋) is because I've started mentoring some very early stage startups (discovery & fit testing phases), and I liked getting this peek into later stage advisory considerations.

John Hambacher's avatar

Love this! A VC friend told me the exact same thing last week, especially the “founder as bottleneck” part.

Miria's avatar

Really cool checklist. I definitely find me and my founders team in a few of them 😬 hope we’ll realise fast enough when it’s time to change some things so we don’t create our own bottlenecks while growing.