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Startups

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How to Save Capital Tax When Holding Unicorn Stock for Startup Employees?

Besides making a startup successful, another big problem for founders and startup employees is the tax on the stock options, RSU, and common stocks. When a startup issues stocks initially, the stock's price is meager, but if the startup succeeds, a stock valued at 1 cent can go to a

Do you need coding skills to start a Fintech career?

You don't need coding skills unless you want to be a fintech software engineer. There are plenty of types of talent a Fintech startup needs. To build a startup company, in general, you need to start with: A technology-savvy personA lawyerSomeone with experience in a particular Finance vertical (e.g.

Do you need to be technically savvy to be a great Startup Product Manager?

"Should I improve my technical knowledge?" is a common question for many product managers or PM wannabes. And there are two major camps: people who believe that a PM should only focus on communication, strategy, cross-functional cooperation skills, and other people who say that technical knowledge is necessary to create

Becoming Startup Product Manager and Creating Great Products

It's not easy to become a startup product manager. Most startups don't have the proper resources to have entire teams to deal with every single problem. So instead, a startup PM ends up wearing multiple hats, exercising many different roles, and applying various skills, creating and launching a product. If

Are you a Good Startup Product Manager? Free yourself from dead-weights.

Have you ever had that feeling of what to do as a Product Manager? Have you doubted yourself for not being able to know everything about your target market? For startups, you search for every single article, marketing data, and even do many interviews with your core audience, but you

Rolling my eyes: Could you "just" add that "little" feature? It's not going to take that much time, is that right? - a PM struggles.

I'm pretty sure a lot of Product Managers know the feeling when people in your company ask you to add new features into the app or software you are managing. As a PM, you know your users or clients want features as soon as possible. They naively imagine that it

API Dominates the World

What is API? An API, Application Programming Interface, is a set of rules, routines, libraries, or languages that allow different software to speak with each other. In simpler terms, it is a bunch of functions that accept certain inputs and return specific outputs. Following that idea, when you use Excel

Book Review: Zero to One during COVID-19

Book Review of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. COVID-19 made me rethink a lot of things in life. To bring new ideas into my mind, I had the "Zero to One" book on my bookshelf for a while, and I thought it was

How a VC Firm Makes Money - Accel and Facebook Case Study - Part 1 of 4

Background information: Accel Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm. It invests in many industries such as Computing, Consumer Internet, and Energy (here are some other industries). Incredibly, Accel has invested in about 200 companies. It is based in Palo Alto, California and it also has offices in

Another Great Startable Tip: Making a Great Business Plan Pitch

Startable shared a neat and simple framework on how to make a great business plan pitch. It gives tips on how to write and organize a business plan. It shows what marketing data VCs are looking for in the business plan. Quick summary of the post: Passion - training and