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.

Individual 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.

Meeting format

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.

Preparing for your first individual office hour

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

  1. Founder background (consider practicing your introduction ahead of the call)
  2. Project background (who own’s 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 (see First Weekand First Month onboarding materials) prior to your first individual office hour. Share administrative questions in your designated company channel.

Group Office Hours

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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.