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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

There are plenty of companies poised to serve your needs in Bangalore, the Philippines, and across Eastern Europe. Hire anyone who fits the culture and mission of your company wherever they live. Hiring local talent will force you to pay more than you can afford. Hiring is what enables you to execute your product roadmap.