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This is the final post of the MBA Mondays series on The Management Team. It is my favorite MBA Mondays series so far. The guest posts in particular have been fantastic.

Back when I started this series, I outlined it and decided that I would ask Jerry Colonna to wrap it up for us. Jerry, when…

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Today’s guest blogger needs no introduction. Joel Spolsky one of the best bloggers out there. He also runs one of our portfolio companies, Stack. And his approach to management is unorthodox at times but amazingly effective. I asked him to tell us a little about how he does it. I think you’ll enjoy this…

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Continuing our MBA Mondays series on The Management Team, we are deep into the guest post phase. This guest post comes from AVC regular Phil Sugar. I’ve never met Phil, but his comments here at AVC tell me that he’s a very experienced entrepreneurial manager. And so I reached out to him to ask for a guest…

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Next up on our guest posts on the subject of The Management Team is AVC community regular JLM. For those that don’t know, JLM runs a public company and before that built and sold a large real estate operation. He’s also written one of the best guest posts ever on AVC. With that intro, here’s what…

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Now that I’ve completed three posts on The Management Team over the last three MBA Mondays, it’s time for four or five guest posts on this topic. The first one is from Matt Blumberg, CEO of our portfolio company Return Path. I’ve been on Matt’s board for over a decade and I’ve watched…

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This is the third and final post on the subject of the management team. The final phase of company development I am going to cover is “building the business.” Building the business largely means building the management team. They are one and the same.

Many founders are naturally talented at building product and building the user base. But building the…

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So you’ve built and launched your product. It is well received. You’ve achieved “product market fit” and it is time to get more users or customers. You’ve graduated from the “building product” stage and have entered the “building usage” phase. What does this mean for your team?

Well first and foremost, it means you are going to have start building…

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The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage is management light. The team should be small. We have portfolio companies like del.icio.us and duck duck go where the Building Product stage was accomplished by one person, the founder of course. That is not typical.

What is typical is a team of…

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My friend Bijan wrote a great post last week about the challenges a startup faces in scaling its team and building a management layer. His post inspired me to start a new series here on MBA Mondays about scaling a management team. Here’s what I have in mind:

First, I will post about…

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