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

By on January 1, 2008 in MP Organization, Video

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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

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

  1. lawrence January 1, 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

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  2. Orian Marx January 3, 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 :-)

    Just to follow up on something in the video… we do have a name now, we are Eluciv Knowledge.

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  3. David Askaripour January 4, 2008 at 1:02 pm #

    Indeed, I am impressed :) Keep up the great work bro — you, charles, con, and yuri are killin’ it!

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