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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Ethan in 2005. Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I loved working for start-ups, except for the being laid-off part, as a result of acquisition or pivot. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. No legal muck.