Orian Marx: “How to Build and Maintain a Strong Founding Team” (part 1)

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 07:48pm by David Askaripour in MP Organization, Video

part 1 | part 2

Orian is co-founder and CEO of Eluciv Knowledge: an upcoming RSS / feed filtering service that’s going to revolutionize the entire process of how people receive, store, and review the content from all the blogs you read. We’ll definitely be talking more about their disruptive service in the upcoming months. Oh, and Orian also knows how to throw an awesome party! hehe…

Topics discussed in presentation:

Set clear expectations for your team members
Be prepared to explain “why” you want to go in a certain direction
Don’t be scared to talk to your team about ANYTHING
Be open and honest with your team
Never let a team member hold you back from pushing forward
If it comes down to it, give your team member an ultimatum

Catch up on our other Mind Petal-icious Presentations over at MP TV.

Spread some petals These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

4 Comments

lawrence

January 1st, 2008 at 10:03 pm

i’m not sure if the word “revolutionize” was david’s word…or orian’s

either way, don’t use it - that’s like immediatley over selling, which is a bad thing.
the users can be the judge of that, if it’s ‘revolutionizing’

not to mention, that’s a red flag word - that venture capitalists don’t want to hear…to them, it’s cliche

Mind Petals: Infinite Ideas to Bloom » Blog Archive » Orian Marx: �How to Build and Maintain a Strong Founding Team� (part 2)

January 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm

[...] for building a team can be applied to many situations, not just your business. If you missed part 1, make sure to get updated. The book mentioned in the presentation,The Partnership Charter , may be [...]

Orian Marx

January 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm

“Revolutionize” was David’s choice, I think we’ve impressed him (so, in that sense someone else *is* judging us) but I agree that that is a bit strong of a word to use right now