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by Laura Roeder
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Introducing Ropig: More Signal, Less Noise
Introducing Ropig: More Signal, Less Noise
Learn more about Ropig
Laura Roeder
Feb 21
Opening Up Our Internal Handbook
Opening Up Our Internal Handbook
We’ve decided to share some of our internal documentation for other companies to model and learn from.
Laura Roeder
Feb 6, 2017
Why I quit trying to make it work.
Why I quit trying to make it work.
Does something you’re doing for your business feel really hard? Like a constant uphill battle? Like you have to hustle your face off before…
Laura Roeder
Jan 13, 2017
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How “Empowering” Your Team Is Stressing Everyone Out
How “Empowering” Your Team Is Stressing Everyone Out
There’s a big trend lately of giving people total freedom at work. Makes sense on paper — the people on your team are grownups who can make…
Laura Roeder
Oct 25, 2016
How Founder Bias Is Poisoning Your Team
How Founder Bias Is Poisoning Your Team
The Danger of “Single Point of Failure” Hiring
Laura Roeder
Aug 19, 2016
MRR is a vanity metric.
MRR is a vanity metric.
The Surprisingly Complicated Math Behind Being Profitable
Laura Roeder
Jun 24, 2016
Distributed Teams Don’t Have to Be Asynchronous Teams
Distributed Teams Don’t Have to Be Asynchronous Teams
Our team is at MeetEdgar is remote, AKA distributed, AKA work-from-home (if you’re not into startup jargon.) That means we don’t have any…
Laura Roeder
May 26, 2016
Why I Trust My Remote Team Completely (And What To Do If You Don’t Trust Yours)
Why I Trust My Remote Team Completely (And What To Do If You Don’t Trust Yours)
When I launched my first software startup, MeetEdgar, I was pregnant with my first child. As a new mom I had no idea what to expect as far…
Laura Roeder
May 13, 2016
How to Customize Slack So It Stops Murdering Your Productivity
How to Customize Slack So It Stops Murdering Your Productivity
Not gonna lie — dumping Slack can be a pretty tempting idea. My social media startup relies on it a lot (and I mean a lot), but it can also…
Laura Roeder
Mar 7, 2016
I’m a Woman in Tech, But Even I Didn’t “Get It” Until This Week
I’m a Woman in Tech, But Even I Didn’t “Get It” Until This Week
After 10 years as a business owner, I encountered a specific kind of sexism this week that I’ve actually never come across before.
Laura Roeder
Jan 25, 2016
Why I Don’t Want My Startup To “Go Viral”
Why I Don’t Want My Startup To “Go Viral”
The Enticing Fantasy of Viral Marketing
Laura Roeder
Dec 14, 2015
Stop Insulting Your Team by Making Everyone Do Customer Service
Stop Insulting Your Team by Making Everyone Do Customer Service
Here at Edgar, every new hire designs and rolls out a new feature for our app in their first month, whether or not they’ve ever seen or…
Laura Roeder
Nov 16, 2015
Honesty in Search Results: Why We Decided Not to Offer an Affiliate Program
Honesty in Search Results: Why We Decided Not to Offer an Affiliate Program
For a lot of businesses, choosing to offer an affiliate marketing program is pretty easy.
Laura Roeder
Aug 17, 2015
Why We Stopped Assigning Deadlines — and Started Getting More Done Because of It
Why We Stopped Assigning Deadlines — and Started Getting More Done Because of It
If you’ve ever missed a deadline, you’re not alone.
Laura Roeder
Aug 14, 2015
Why Zirtual’s Demise Makes Me Glad I Turned Down Millions in Funding
Why Zirtual’s Demise Makes Me Glad I Turned Down Millions in Funding
When I launched my social media software company in 2014, I had to make a very important decision: to self-fund, or go out for funding?
Laura Roeder
Aug 13, 2015
How Being Nice is Killing Your Shot At Success
How Being Nice is Killing Your Shot At Success
(And how I changed my nice girl ways.)
Laura Roeder
Jan 28, 2014
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