Employee Hiring Matching Technical Cofounder 
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. It’s a small cost to prevent a long-term loss.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”.
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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. It’s a small cost to prevent a long-term loss.
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. It’s a small cost to prevent a long-term loss.
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?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
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.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? Jason: If I’m managing my whole business with this tool, I don’t have 100 employees. you can’t have one employee because meetings are just too easy and you don’t really have them formally. You can’t have 5,000 employees.
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