Office Hours

Office hours are weekly meetings with OCV partners. The goal of these meetings is to help you make meaningful week-over-week (WoW) progress.

Office hours with OCV partners should be highly leveraged. Make every minute count by being highly prepared and specific.

OCV schedules all recurring meetings and creates company agenda docs. OCV companies at any stage can request additional office hours as needed. All requests for meetings or changes to existing meetings (time, format, agenda) should be made through OCV.

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 (IOH) are 1:1 meetings with OCV partners. This is your time to explore high-priority topics in depth.

You should review onboarding tasks before your first IOH and ask any administrative questions in your company's Slack channel, so you can make the best use of the OH time.

Group Office Hours

Group Office Hours (GOH) are meetings with OCV partners and other OCV company founders. GOH focus on growth and goal setting. Company CTOs and CEOs are invited to join; don't add additional team members to GOH.

GOH includes 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. Topics that require more time should be moved to the next IOH agenda.

Meeting etiquette

1. Always have an agenda prepared ahead of the meeting. OCV will help prep and review agendas for your first few meetings.

2. Ensure all meeting attendees have access.

3. Add a header for each new meeting that includes the meeting date and lists attendees.

4. Use a numbered list for agenda items. A numbered list makes it easy to reference where you are in the agenda.

5. Answers to common questions will be provided via links to the handbook or blog post. Read the provided material before the meeting and adjust your questions to address any follow-up questions or company-specific nuances you’d like to cover.

6. Founders and any additional meeting attendees are expected to take notes in the doc during the meeting. This helps clarify understanding in real time.

7. Founders should confirm takeaways, action items, and timelines before the end of the call.

Meeting format

Pre-Seed companies attend weekly Office Hours, which alternate between OHs (25 minutes) and GOHs (45 minutes). Each company has ~10 minutes to cover agenda items during GOH.

Office Hours meetings follow a standard format:

1. Read your two-sentence description

2. Review growth updates

3. Open discussion

Companies that have successfully fundraised (Post-Seed companies) move from a weekly cadence to a monthly cadence and follow the standard meeting format. Post-Seed companies don't have regularly scheduled IOHs, but may request ad-hoc 1:1s.

Agendas

Every meeting must have an agenda attached to the meeting invitation. No agenda = no meeting.

Agendas should be prepared a day before the meeting. Use the "By Date" agenda format to track Office Hours meetings in your Company Office Hours document. All OH agendas are kept on a single page, so it's easy to review and reference past meeting agendas.

Each week, the agenda for both IOH and GOH should start with week-over-week goal progress, including the week-over-week growth rate: # WAUs / % WoW growth

1. Previous week’s goal: 1,200 WAUs / 20% WoW growth

2. Previous week's performance: 1,100 WAUs / 10% WoW growth

3. Next week's goal: 1,320 WAUS / 20% growth

Goal progress should focus on a single, measurable goal and be tracked weekly. Post-Seed companies will report month-over-month progress.

Include any additional goals/metrics in a separate section titled “Secondary metrics” when relevant. Evaluate progress as either achieved or missed. If it’s unclear whether the goal was achieved or missed, you may need to reframe your goal. OCV will pressure test your next goal during office hours (i.e., is it the right goal, is it ambitious enough).

Agenda template

Use this template for all OH agendas. Always format your agenda as a numeric list. Don't add extra headers or tables. Images/screenshots are added as a line item.

Date | Group Office Hours

1. Goal Progress

   1. Previous week's goal (what you said you would do at the last meeting)

   2. Previous week's performance (if missed, include % achieved)

   3. Next goal (singular, binary, measurable)

2. Growth Plan (how will you achieve your next goal)

3. Open Discussion

Example

Reporting Dashboard

Every company has a Reporting Dashboard pinned at the top of its Company Office Hours doc. Update your dashboard at the start of the month. Use the standard Reporting Dashboard template:

Category	Number	Last updated
Cash on Hand	$950K	2025-11-13
Cash burn	Nov: $52K Dec projection: $65K	2025-11-13
Runway	12 months	2025-11-13
Team	Name, Title, LinkedIn	2025-11-13
KPIs	MRR / WAUs Oct: $10K / 5,000 Nov: $20K / 10,000 Dec: $40K / 20,000 Next Month Goal: $80K / 40,000	2025-11-13

1. Cash on hand: Utilize the month-end Accounting financial statements via the Bank Recon tab for the latest “Total Bank" statement balance. Round to the nearest $10k.

2. Cash Burn: Utilize the month-end financial report via the Month CF for the latest “Net cash provided by operating activities.” Use this as the latest month's burn. Provide a projection for the next month's burn by accounting for changes in hiring or spending (e.g., new contractor starting or new ad campaign launching). Round to the nearest $5k.

3. Runway: Current runway is calculated as (Cash on Hand - $200K) / Cash Burn. We include assumed dissolution costs of $200k.

4. Team: Include each team member's full name and job title/function (e.g., SWE, designer, writer, etc.) and link to LinkedIn profile. Include contractors and link to the contract in the Shared Drive.

5. KPIs: Latest North Star metric for growth, and any secondary metrics that may be helpful. Include the last three months' official numbers once books are closed, and the projection/goal for next month.

Quick Fire Sessions

Quick Fire Sessions are monthly portfolio-wide meetings with OCV partners. They cover a single startup topic and include a demo and Q&A portion. Demos should be <5 minutes and show an implementation of the discussion topic, and questions should be specific and actionable. For example:

1. If the topic is pricing, demo your pricing page and ask questions about unit economics.

2. If the topic is mid-funnel conversion, demo your signup flow and ask questions about the user experience.

3. If the topic is repo structure, demo your repo and ask questions about integrating open source and proprietary code.

The forum is curated for Pre-Seed companies, but Post-Seed companies are welcome to join.