Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 3, 2022
In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. Recovery from a surprise bad hire is expensive.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 5, 2023
Even if they realize that they need real technical strength at the top, they are not sure how to attract and select the talent and expertise they really need. That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. Don’t fall for a technical pitch you can’t fathom.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 29, 2019
In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. Recovery from a surprise bad hire is expensive.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 15, 2017
In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. Recovery from a surprise bad hire is expensive.
bizthoughts.mikelee.org
MARCH 8, 2012
BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Especially since VC pattern matching may inappropriately label people this way (can’t sell) who are merely nervous or new to their environment. A hire or two that you should have been able to close won’t join. Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it?
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