Some good habits for founders to inculcate. As presented at the JioGenNext Incubator

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Discipline & Process Setting
What we wish we knew 6 years ago

3. Discipline

4. Founder Discipline

5. Honesty
- No one should ever be in the dark
- Weekly Founder Catch Ups
- Clear Line of Communication & Trust
- Question, Disagree, but Commit
- Be Reliable

6. Fiduciary Discipline
- Monthly/Quarterly Cadence
- TO ALL INVESTORS
- Understand investor motive
- Leverage their capability, network
- Founder’s prerogative

7. Decision-Making
- Fact Based, not Opinion based
- Difference between Reversible & Irreversible Decisions
- Disagree but Commit
- Review & Learn
- Quick & Nimble

8. Capability
- Build, Learn, Master
- Honest Assessment
- Move Around if doesn’t work

9. Routine
- Aggressive Follow Ups
- Set a regular schedule
- Find “Your Work Time”
- Predictability & Regularity

10. Team Discipline

11. Learning & Upskilling
- Grow cross-domain know-how
- Learn New Skills
- Ask - Learn - Execute - Repeat
- Part of Culture, Review
- Special Interest Group with Set Calendar Events, Budget

12. Data Ability for Everyone
- No more Gut Feeling Decisions
- Suicidal if no Data Culture
- No central Business Analytics
- EVERYONE must know data
- Teach Regularly

13. Building an & Adherence to Culture
- Live & Breathe
- Guiding light for decision making, when in doubt
- NO EXCEPTIONS, especially not for founders
- Evolves over a couple of years, not overnight

14. Knowledge Documentation
- Can’t have a SPOF
- Constant Learning
- Writing it makes it serious
- Reference Point

15. Process

16. People - Process - Product
- Move from one to the other earlier
than you need to
- Set up for 10X scale
- Plan for engineering of internal
products and tools

17. Recruitment
- Religiously follow process for all
teams without any exception
- Round 1: Logic + Data Ability
- Round 2: Functional Test
- Round 3: Interview
- Round 4: Interview
- Round 5: Founder Interview
- Round 6: Reference Check

18. Meeting Etiquette
- Set Agenda Before Hand
- Be On & Within the Time
- Clearly defined action points
- MoM to be written by the
organizer and documented
- Mutually Exclusive and
Collectively Exhaustive

19. Goals & Performance
Management
- Objective & Measurable
- Weekly CheckIn with 1 level below
- Monthly CheckIn with 2 level below
- Quarterly Upward Feedback
- Personal + Professional Goals
- Set up people for Success
- Set Stretch Goals

20. Reviews &
Compensation
- Personal + Professional Align
- Self-Assessment
- Performance + Initiative
- Evolve as company evolves
- Set defined objectives for
compensation, promotion
- No mid-cycle exceptions

21. Automation
- Set up for 10X Scale
- Do it once, Do it right
- Organization wide Productivity
- Tools are only as good as you
use and manage them

22. Books to Read

24. Parting Thoughts

25. Build to Scale & Build to Sustain
Open, Transparent & System Oriented
Be Opportunistic & Nimble
Honest About Why You Are In This