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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

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by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. But to get to the finish line successfully, there are several key company milestones that leadership must identify and address. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. Avoiding churn is also key in monitoring burn rate. Seed to Series D: Collaboration. At Women 2.0

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

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Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Cunningham’s term was coined to identify a specific problem in the tech industry, but the fundamental concept is universal — Ben Horowitz, for example, took Cunningham’s concept and applied it to management structures. .

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. It was all technical. She was paid much more than me and no matter how technical I was, they saw me as the business guy because I graduated with a degree in economics. Technical founder. You’re 42.

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