Cultivate Conference 2013: Video Compilation

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Learn tricks to help cultivate your tech company

Where can you get salient advice to help your tech company succeed? At O’Reilly’s Cultivate event in New York, leaders from eight technology-based firms shared stories and strategies for putting together teams and companies. This complete video compilation lets capture every moment from this inspiring one-day gathering, held in October 2013.

Executives including Tim O’Reilly, Elaine Wherry (meebo), and Kate Matsudaira (popforms) offered attendees a concentrated dose of wisdom, camaraderie, and practical tools for crafting the right technology strategy, growing an exceptional team, and creating processes that work—things that technical leaders need to know about people, business, and technology.

Download these videos or stream them through our HD player, and tune into presentations including:

  • How I Failed—Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media): You can build a successful business, but fail to cultivate your company culture.
  • Cracking the Culture Code—Elaine Wherry (meebo): Learn how highly strategic cultural thinking ultimately makes or breaks every company.
  • What *Do* You Do All Day?—Kate Matsudaira (popforms): To let your team do what they’re good at, give them the tools and trust they need.
  • Living with Complete Email Transparency—Patrick Collison (Stripe): Learn how making all email communication accessible to any employee has affected company culture.
  • How to Create a Culture of Shipping Product Continuously—Hiten Shah (CrazyEgg / KISSmetrics): Create a culture of shipping product continuously without compromising your company values.
  • Leading from First Principles—Scott Chacon (GitHub): Approach business decisions based on what you want to accomplish, not on what other companies have done.
  • Leveraging Logic as a Leader—Patty McCord (Patty McCord Consulting): Understand the tenants of a high performance culture of innovation.
  • I Hate Meetings—Michael Lopp (Palantir Technologies): Meetings are often wielded as a means of control and not a mechanism for clear communication.

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  • Title: Cultivate Conference 2013: Video Compilation
  • Author(s):
  • Release date: October 2013
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0636920032649