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Have a Board Meeting, Even Without a Board
Why all early-stage founders should have quarterly "board" meetings
Aug 7, 2025 • Rishi Taparia
Negotiating your startup job offer
Tippets by Taps #158: Offer negotiation, mini-cars, Xinjiang, and more. Enjoy!
Feb 28, 2021 • Rishi Taparia
Measuring Time-to-Trust
When customers stop checking your work is when you win
Mar 11 • Rishi Taparia
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Negotiating your startup job offer
Feb 28, 2021 • Rishi Taparia
The Ant that Poked the Dragon
Nov 17, 2020 • Rishi Taparia
Teaching the AI Generation
Mar 19, 2025 • Rishi Taparia
Startup ecosystems in APAC
Aug 17, 2022 • Rishi Taparia
AI in Action
Jun 12, 2025 • Rishi Taparia
Why Isn't the Car Driving?
Jan 7 • Rishi Taparia
The AI Brush
When transformation and correction blur together
Feb 28 • Rishi Taparia
FDE Should Mean Forward Deployed Executive
What real customer partnership actually looks like
Jan 28 • Rishi Taparia
When Insurance Admits AI is Safer Than People
When better data forces markets to reprice reality
Jan 22 • Rishi Taparia
Celebrate the Wins
Your team needs to see the wins you've already moved past
Jan 14 • Rishi Taparia
Why Isn't the Car Driving?
Four weeks from magic to mundane
Jan 7 • Rishi Taparia
My Year in Books - 2025
Turning the page on another year
Jan 1
When Great People Leave
How to react when a key employee tells you they are moving on
Sep 25, 2025 • Rishi Taparia
Taps' Notes
Taps' Notes
My friends call me Taps, and these are my notes! You'll get a lot of what's on my mind as an early-stage startup investor, as well as a weekly roundup of interesting tidbits (aka. Tippets) from around the web.
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