Version One Ventures
APRIL 11, 2019
This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. And she has not only been instrumental to Shippo, but also an extremely valuable resource to other engineering leaders in the Version One family. Functional quality.
Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2018
The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry – at startups and venture capital firms – and the interaction between men and women in the two. Among other things the book reminded me how important leadership is in setting startup culture – both consciously and implicitly. It was both eye-opening and cringe-worthy.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. .&# I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. Context here.)
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 16, 2018
In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. And my answer always is, “Recruiting”. Recruiting has to be a top-three priority for any CEO, for any size organization. But they don’t know that.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. The company was going to hire a VP of Marketing.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 28, 2014
A well-known startup innovator, he’s co-founder of the leading VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and author of a new book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers , which brims with unusually direct, useful advice for new and seasoned entrepreneurs alike. The firs step is to write down what you want.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 9, 2013
I’ve written before about hiring for cultural fit, and about the importance of prioritizing cultural fit over competence when hiring at startups. I started thinking about it again when I saw this Dilbert comic , because it pokes fun at the culture of startups and their propensity only to hire people who fit into them.
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