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Office hours are weekly meetings you will have with OCV partners. The goal of these meetings is to address your most pressing concerns and blockers. Individual office hours are typically 25 minutes and time-constrained to help you focus on the most important topics.

‼️ OCV Founders regularly attend group meetings with other founders, and confidential information may be shared. This information is not to be shared.

Individual Office Hours

Individual office hours are meetings you have with OCV partners. This is your meeting, and you are responsible for ensuring it is productive. Prepare your agenda in advance 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.

Agenda format

Every meeting must have an agenda attached to the meeting invitation. No agenda = no meeting. Agendas should be prepared before the start of the meeting. You can organize your agenda by date or use a rolling agenda format. Include your name ahead of each agenda item.

Preparing for your first individual office hour

At your first individual office hour, OCV partners make introductions and will briefly cover the format and cadence of individual office hours. Expect to spend most of the call discussing business-related matters. Founders should be prepared to discuss:

  1. Founder background (consider practicing your introduction ahead of the call)
  2. Project background (who owns the repo, telemetry, existing users)
  3. Growth story (what’s the north star goal that will drive the fundraising story in 12-18 months)
  4. Two-week goal (typically a growth metric, often “get first user”)
  5. Two-sentence description

By your second individual office hour, be prepared to discuss

  1. Website and company “launch” status (pricing page, signup funnel/UX, top-of-funnel metric)
  2. Product roadmap (often “MVP commercial version” and adding telemetry)
  3. Hiring and CEO sourcing strategy

To make the most of your time with OCV partners, review administrative information before your first individual office hour. Share administrative questions in your designated company channel.

Group Office Hours