Office hours are weekly meetings you will have with OCV partners. The goal of these meetings is to help you with your most pressing concerns and blockers. Meetings are typically 25 minutes and time-constrained to help you focus on the most important topics. You will have one 25-minute meeting per week rotating between Individual Office Hours and Group Office Hours.
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Individual office hours are meetings you have with OCV partners. This is your meeting and you are responsible for making sure they are productive. Prepare your agenda ahead of time and take notes during the meeting. OCV’s Group Partner will work with the founders to schedule individual office hours. You can request additional ad hoc office hours as needed.
There is no set agenda for Individual Office Hours. You can prepare your agenda in any way that works for you. Include the current meeting date and a few bulleted topics to cover at a minimum.
<aside> ‼️ NDA Consent: By joining an OCV meeting, Founders expressly agree to the terms of this non-disclosure agreement.
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Group Office Hours are meetings you have with OCV partners and other OCV company founders. The objective of Group Office Hours is to learn how to set appropriate goals at your current stage and to develop good hygiene around communicating goals and measuring results. The meeting will include 3-4 companies at a time to encourage peer learning. Group pairings are loosely based on the company’s stage of development and/or industry focus. Additional topics can be discussed during Individual Office Hours.
Group Office Hours are automatically scheduled by OCV. Company CTO and CEOs are invited to join; please refrain from adding additional team members to the group bi-weekly call.
Read Goal Setting ahead of your first office hours meetings to best prepare for setting your first goals.
Each meeting will follow the same meeting format. Companies will be asked:
Goal setting and progress are captured in the Group Office Hours Goals spreadsheet. At the start of each meeting, founders will be asked if they achieved (green) or missed (red) the previous 2-week goal. It’s important for founders to evaluate their goals within the binary of achieved or missed and avoid classifying progress as “yellow.” If it’s unclear whether the goal was achieved or not, you may need to define the goal better. Nuances can be covered during the office hours discussion.
See the Meeting & Communication page for guidelines on meeting etiquette and scheduling.
Write down the two-sentence company description that you will recite at every Group Office Hour. Building the habit of being able to effectively and succinctly describe your company will benefit you for the entirety of your tenure as a founder. Even CEOs of well-known public companies typically lead with some version of a two-sentence description when introducing their themselves.