The 5-Minute Startup CTO #84

Handling screw-ups, Picking your North Star, Conversations, Security tools

Hi there,

I hope you’re well. Here’s your 4 tips for this week!

👭 People

First, a really good article from FastCompany: how to handle a screw-up by an employee, or one of your own. Between a lax, ‘whatever’ approach and a blame culture, there are much better ways to manage these situations.

🥫 Product

Next a detailed look at the North Star metrics adopted by successful startups, and some advice on choosing your own.

🔄 Process

We’ve all had these awkward moments when a discussion peters out into an awkward silence… Henrik Edberg has 8 simple tips for keeping the conversation going.

⌨️ Tech

5 recommendations for tools to detect and fix security issues - anything which automates this should be welcome!

Until next time, have a great week

Fabrice

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