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“What I’ve learned in the last decade is that while there are some important universal principles — like constraining the timeline — you need to commit to thoughtfully tailoring the process to your company.
‘I’ll just do what I did at my last startup’ or ‘Let's figure out what X
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Don't just grab an off-the-rack annual planning process and hope it fits. "Every company’s planning process needs to be optimized for their problems, their market, and the team they have to execute the planning."
@jiaonazhang
Use this
@NotionHQ
template to tailor your approach
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Annual planning is such a painful process for so many teams. Great deep dive on the
@firstround
Review this week, with insights & templates from Notion, Linear, Vanta, Webflow, and Linktree.
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Annual planning is not fun.
Today the
@firstround
Review does a deep dive -- and shares insights (AND TEMPLATES) from leading companies like
@NotionHQ
,
@linear
,
@TrustVanta
,
@webflow
, and
@Linktree_
.
Super tactical advice from
@jiaonazhang
,
@cjc
,
@steviecase
, and
@ramakatkar
!
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One of the most common mistakes early-stage startups make during annual planning? Not tying new bets back to revenue. You still have to actually write out the math of your business.
I love this advice from
@TrustVanta
CRO
@KillCreek
on making revenue forecasting a habit early
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Everyone tends to groan when annual planning time comes around. Yet, we know it’s important to give your org a sense of where they’re going next year and how every task and project leads to the outcomes you aim to achieve.
I was excited to work with
@firstround
and
@jiaonazhang
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"Overnight success" usually takes a long time to achieve!
Great story in
@firstround
about
@amasad
and the story of
@Replit
. They had a vision and adapted along the way.
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Wow!
@KiwiCo_inc
has passed $1 Billion in lifetime revenue. The company only raised $10M in VC financing -- and has been self-financing itself for the last 10 years. So impressed by
@sandraohlin
's consistent execution, focus and willpower to ignore the VC industry's vanity
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Disruption isn’t crushed by failure, it's assassinated by bureaucrats with PowerPoints and patent lawyers.
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"One thing I’ve learned from
@bipulsinha
(Co-Founder & CEO
@rubrikInc
) that’s now embedded in how I operate, is the importance of having one killer, differentiating feature that you can sell from the start. It’s about doing one thing radically better than anyone else. Even if
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