Distribution Early Stage Hiring Product Development 
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 3, 2012
There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases. Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised.
Business Plan Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2013
This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. While some investors will be willing to help you build your team, they will not be willing to invest in your startup if you are not willing to distribute responsibility and bring on diversified expertise. Hiring the right people at the right time is key.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 20, 2011
There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases. Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 12, 2010
There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases. Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 22, 2012
Who should you hire? In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.” It’s basically working with potential outside partners to reach your business goals--which could be revenue, distribution, financing, product development, awareness, etc. How are you ever going to get it done?
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 6, 2022
Steve Hoffman (06:08): If you don't get the right people on board, you know, hire them really hard to succeed, marketing, getting your name out. That is the role of the CEO in an early stage company. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely. We were early on in the ecosystem in San Francisco.
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