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. Team managers in a hurry to hire often skip references, assuming they won’t get the real story anyway. Have multiple team members do their own two-way interviews, and compare notes.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
What To Look For When Reference Checking Polarizing Entrepreneurs There are certain words I don’t want to hear when doing backchannel references on a startup CEO. Do they have a cofounder who can balance them out? Sketchy would be one. Unmotivated another. Make sure to talk with this person as well.
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www.virtuosimedia.com
MARCH 8, 2012
Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Basically these sayings are referring to people who talk a big game but then can’t back it up with action. Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? You’ve heard the expression “All sizzle, no steak?” Or the Texan equivalent of “All hat, no cattle?” Yes and No.
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. Team managers in a hurry to hire often skip references, assuming they won’t get the real story anyway. Have multiple team members do their own two-way interviews, and compare notes.
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. Team managers in a hurry to hire often skip references, assuming they won’t get the real story anyway. Have multiple team members do their own two-way interviews, and compare notes.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 31, 2019
Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. When founders are wrong (which happens often), that initial seed round runs out quickly, requiring another round of funding — typically referred to as a bridge round.
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