Social Leverage Letter | Issue #28

Jump-starting Innovation, the 2x2 Matrix, and Putting your Notion in Motion

Author

Pete Weishaupt
March 13, 2022

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UPFRONT

Portfolio company Koyfin (Fund III) was founded in the US six years ago because Rob Koyfman believed there was an opportunity to democratize the way investors research stocks and market trends. He'd been told by experienced entrepreneurs about the “startup journey” that lay ahead with its ups, downs, and many surprises; but he never imagined helping his team navigate a war as one of those turns in the road.

Most of the Koyfin team is based in Ukraine and they're the ones that have built Koyfin, starting with a blank page. The Russian invasion has deeply affected the team and their families. Many were forced to flee their homes, while others are stuck in cities like Kharkiv and Kyiv, unable to escape because it's too dangerous to travel.

Koyfin is doing everything they can to support their employees including paid time off, help with relocation and support services.

Due to an outpouring of support from users, with many reaching out to ask how they can help support Koyfin employees, a campaign to raise funds for the team in Ukraine has been set up.

100% of the money will be donated to Koyfin employees to help them and their families navigate the current war. We greatly appreciate your support to help our team members in Ukraine get through this crisis.

Click here to support Help Koyfin's 20 Employees in Ukraine by Rob Koyfman

I'm raising money to help Koyfin's 20 employees and their families in Ukraine

https://fundly.com/help-koyfin-s-employees-in-ukraine

  • READING: How to jump-start innovation and organizational change

  • READING: Introducing the Eisenhower Matrix

  • LISTENING: Kyle Samani of Multicoin on Accelerating the Adoption of Sovereign Software, Designing Token Systems that Capture Value, and Why Composability is the Key to Crypt

  • WATCHING: My Creative Workflow with Notion

  • WHAT ELSE WE'RE READING

  • JOB BOARD

READING

strategy+business

Virtual collaboration may seem a no-brainer over two years into a pandemic, but the five steps outlined here can help jump-start innovation and organizational change via short burst sessions that enable employees to solve problems quickly and creatively.

How to jump-start innovation and organizational change

Short-burst, virtual collaboration modules can help employees solve problems quickly and creatively.

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/How-to-jump-start-innovation-and-organizational-change

EISENHOWER

This 2x2 matrix helps you decide on and prioritize your tasks by urgency and importance. 

The Eisenhower Matrix: Introduction & 3-Minute Video Tutorial

The Eisenhower Matrix, also known as Urgent-Important Matrix, is a decision making principle and productivity tool that helps prioritize your many tasks.

https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/

From our blog

A little framing can go a long way with whatever business or personal challenges you may be facing right now. 

A Third-Party Solution to Problems — Social Leverage

We face challenges every single day, both personal and in business. Maybe even more so in the startup world. But a little framing can go a long way with whatever problems you might be facing right now.  Investor Paul Craven suggests “outsourcing your problems to a third-party.” The exer

https://www.socialleverage.com/blog/2022/3/9/y9u5f2atuwqcytzzpalmopd0eubjda

LISTENING

Panic with Friends

This episode piggybacks last weeks episode with Tushar Jain. The crypto market is unlike any other market that's ever existed. How those who will own crypto access information and how they decide what to buy is different from other markets. Web3 compliments Web2 in many ways: there will be new classes of apps that will be purposefully decentralized for a variety of reasons and kinds of decentralized systems and apps will leverage functions like compute, indexing, or telecommunications.

‎Panic with Friends - Howard Lindzon: Kyle Samani of Multicoin on Accelerating the Adoption of Sovereign Software, Designing Token Systems that Capture Value, and Why Composability is the Key to Crypto on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Panic with Friends - Howard Lindzon, Ep Kyle Samani of Multicoin on Accelerating the Adoption of Sovereign Software, Designing Token Systems that Capture Value, and Why Composability is the Key to Crypto - Mar 9, 2022

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/panic-with-friends-howard-lindzon/id1460734936?i=1000553516157

WATCHING

YouTube | Ali Abdaal

One of the questions Ali is often asked is how working full-time as a doctor, running a YouTube channel, podcast, and other businesses, does he do it all? The answer is a defined workflow for turning out videos, podcasts, blogs, and newsletters. He uses the free version of Notion to capture, organize, and produce content. 

WHAT WE'RE READING

Here's what caught our eye over the past week.

JOB BOARD

Explore openings at our portfolio companies:

Social Leverage Job Board

Search job openings across the Social Leverage network.

https://jobs.socialleverage.com/companies

Featured Jobs:

Secfi - Senior Product Designer

About the Team We’re passionate about design, everything-tech-and-finance geeks and value a healthy work-life balance. We have a tight-knit culture, supporting our design goals as a team, and we bring our authentic selves to work. The following are guidelines, not hard requirements. We like to work with friendly, smart and driven design professionals, so if that’s you and our product excites you; please feel free to stop reading and hit Apply! Stock options can be pretty complex, that’s actually why we exist. But we don’t necessarily require everyone to have a background in finance or fintech. Because of this complexity though, we value curiosity and collaboration. It helps if you have a few years of experience in defining and shipping digital products. Bonus points for B2C products. About the Role As a Senior Product Designer, you'll rely on your craft to design delightful user experiences—from ideas to hand-off. You'll collaborate with your design peers to refine the Secfi design

https://jobs.lever.co/secfi/a2e66aa7-e602-4862-ad71-856a302ab514#content

1upHealth - Sales Operations Manager

We are looking for a Sales Operations Manager to support 1upHealth in this critical growth period through collecting and analyzing data to improve our organizations sales operations. As a Sales Operations Manager reporting directly to the VP of Sales, you’ll use your passion for technology and analysis to assist with the administration of our sales technology stack and support the development and optimization of new and existing sales programs. This position is especially great for someone who has strong analytical skills and also loves working with others.

https://jobs.lever.co/1up-health/274c9015-5f10-434d-974e-fc0ef3f174e7#content

Strategic Finance Manager

New York, New York, United States

https://boards.greenhouse.io/nayya/jobs/4386228004#content

Consumer Experience Specialist

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer, to work in a very friendly and relaxed environment and be part of a well-motivated, talented, and growing team. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of work experience developing in Shopify/Shopify Plus. This is an opportunity to have direct input into the creation of foundational processes and systems that shape the future of the business and scale our e-commerce platform globally.

https://www.veloklub.com/careers/consumer-experience-specialist#content

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