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Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Business Plan Blog

This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. Don’t hire people with skills and qualifications similar to yours. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Early Stage.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T. I had just watched a master of the consultative sale. Help them?!!