Comments on: Pay on results but judge on process

By: Customer Development. Trendy Phrase. Gimmick? ~ Innovation Investment Journal

Customer Development. Trendy Phrase. Gimmick? ~ Innovation Investment Journal — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:59:14 +0000

[...] read a fair number of business books and I blog about a few of the best of them (e.g. Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness, Cohen’s The Second Bounce, Perez’s Technological Revolutions) but as far as the readers of [...]

By: Finance Geek » Steve Blank’s “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” – a great manual for startups

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:19:08 +0000

[...] I read a fair number of business books and I blog about a few of the best of them (e.g. Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness, Cohen’s The Second Bounce, Perez’s Technological Revolutions) but as far as the readers of [...]

By: Steve Blank’s “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” – a great manual for startups | The Equity Kicker

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:15:32 +0000

By: Finance Geek » Some thoughts on recruitment – instinct over CV

Finance Geek » Some thoughts on recruitment – instinct over CV — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:52:47 +0000

[...] Looking beyond what a candidate has achieved and where they have worked to hear why they think they were successful and what they actually did. The purpose here is to try and figure out whether success came due to a right-time, right-place piece of luck or whether it was the result of the way the candidate works and is therefore more likely to be repeated. This is a very subjective judgement as most successful people have benefited from good luck at some point. Note also that this approach can lead to hiring someone who has previously been unsuccessful because they were unlucky. Assessing candidates like this is the logical extension of paying existing employees on results, but judging them on process. [...]

By: Are serial entrepreneurs any better than first time entrepreneurs? « The Equity Kicker

Wed, 14 May 2008 09:33:10 +0000

[...] – this is also a reminder on the importance of judging people on process rather than results. It is better to back the second time entrepreneur who did everything right in [...]