On Deck Journal

In this guide, Ming Lu (founder of Sensible) and Vik Duggal (founder of RevPipes) draw from their decades of experience navigating the startup landscape to detail how to choose the right stage startup to join, and why that decision should be anchored in an accurate assessment of your risk tolerance and career priorities.

Ming Lu,Vik Duggal

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Sasha Orloff is the founder of LendUp, Mission Lane, and now Puzzle.io where he serves as CEO. Today he gives a look into his daily schedule and weekly routine, along with his principles of time management for high impact that stem from almost a decade of experience founding and managing high-growth companies.

Sasha Orloff

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Learn how to build a pre-seed stage company from Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at the VC firm Floodgate. Ann’s advice comes from decades of turning pre-product market fit companies into minimum viable companies and then unicorns.

Ann Miura-Ko

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On Deck has helped hundreds find a co-founder and start a company. We distill lessons and patterns from successful matches into a comprehensive playbook.

Erik Torenberg, Sachin Maini

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Learn the playbook and pragmatic tactics for early-stage fundraising from Mike Wilner, a startup founder, advisor, and author of Oversubscribed, a book on seed fundraising.

Mike Wilner, Sachin Maini

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When it comes to investing, your emotions matter. Keeping them in check when analyzing the markets is key to avoiding losses and capitalizing on opportunities. Callie Cox, Senior Investment Strategist at Ally Invest, draws on her personal and professional successes in finance to bring you habits for strengthening your mental fortitude when investing.

Callie Cox

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Healthy cross-functional relationships are key for customer success teams to do their job. In this indispensable guide for customer success leaders, Rod Cherkas, CEO of consulting firm HelloCCO and mentor for ODCS fellows, draws from his 15+ years of experience as a post-sales exec to provide a masterclass in building relationships with cross-functional partners.

Rod Cherkas

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‍Being a design manager is different than being an individual designer. It means balancing different roles, while focusing on unlocking and supporting the best work from the design team rather than your own contributions.

David Hoang

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