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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

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by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. While additional personnel is crucial to scale the product, misaligned hires will increase burn rate without a concurrent jump in productivity and meaningful growth. Avoiding churn is also key in monitoring burn rate. At Women 2.0 At Women 2.0

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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