Culture Code: Creating a Company You Love
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The document discusses the importance of creating a strong culture for a startup company. It notes that while many startups don't focus on culture, leaving it to develop haphazardly, culture actually plays a crucial role in a company's success by determining the types of people it attracts and retains. The document provides tips for founders such as defining the company's mission, values, and vision of success to shape the emerging culture in a deliberate way rather than leaving it to chance. It emphasizes that culture will develop whether intentionally managed or not, so founders should focus on cultivating the type of culture they want for their growing business.
Culture Code: Creating a Company You Love
- 1. Creating A Kick-A#! Culture Dharmesh Shah, Founder/CTO v3
- 4. Gross MRR Dec-06 Feb-07 Apr-07 Jun-07 Aug-07 Oct-07 Dec-07 Feb-08 Apr-08 Jun-08 Aug-08 Oct-08 Dec-08 Feb-09 Apr-09 Jun-09 Aug-09 Oct-09 Dec-09 Feb-10 Apr-10 Jun-10 Aug-10 Oct-10 Dec-10 Feb-11 Apr-11 Jun-11 Aug-11 Oct-11 Dec-11 Feb-12 Apr-12 Jun-12 Monthly Revenue Recurring Aug-12 Oct-12 Dec-12 - 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000
- 5. Gross MRR Dec-06 Feb-07 Apr-07 Jun-07 Aug-07 Oct-07 Dec-07 Feb-08 Apr-08 Jun-08 Aug-08 Oct-08 Dec-08 Feb-09 Apr-09 Jun-09 Aug-09 Oct-09 Dec-09 Feb-10 Apr-10 Jun-10 Aug-10 Oct-10 Dec-10 Feb-11 Apr-11 Jun-11 Aug-11 Oct-11 Dec-11 Feb-12 Apr-12 Jun-12 Monthly Revenue Recurring Aug-12 Oct-12 Dec-12 - 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000
- 6. culture: Set of shared beliefs, values and practices.
- 8. Most startups don’t think much about culture.
- 9. WE’RE PUTTING A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE. THAT’S OUR F#!@ING CULTURE!
- 10. Culture?. Relax. I got this… We have beer and ping-pong
- 11. Create a culture? Sounds fishy. Culture should just happen.
- 12. WHY SHOULD YOU SPEND CALORIES ON CULTURE?
- 13. You may not be able to craft culture. But, you can kill it through neglect.
- 14. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: Left alone, most things degrade to crap.
- 17. “Startups are about people who build sh#t.” - @sgblank (earlier today)
- 18. Culture is about getting and engaging amazing people.
- 19. product:marketing :: culture:recruiting
- 20. product is to marketing as culture is to recruiting
- 21. The effective interest rate on culture debt is usually higher than technology debt.
- 22. Cultural debt is rarely “forgiven” You’re going to have to pay it.
- 23. Questions for your culture deck: 1.What are we doing? 2.Why are we doing it? 3.What do we believe? 4.Who do we want joining us? 5.How do we get them? 6.What does success look like?
- 24. Don’t create the culture you think you should have. Create the one you want to have.
- 25. Whether you plan it or not, you will have a culture. And, it determines your destiny.
- 26. Why not create a culture you love?
- 27. tweet me: @dharmesh Slides and notes: CultureCode.com