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To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows

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We’re coming up on our 5th birthday; we have ~250 employees with offices in New York, SF, and London; we have contracts with 70 large customers, including most of the biggest in our space; our investors are [three top Silicon Valley firms].But No one has ever been promoted onto the management team, only hired in from outside.

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What I Learned from the TapCommerce Founders

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Subsequently, through learning first-hand via their own experimental shopping app called TapSave -and- attending to conferences to specifically speak to potential customers about painpoints, they focused in on an initial offering which was true to their ad-tech backgrounds. Prioritize the right customers.

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