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Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Business Plan Blog

One recipe for failure (business failure and capital raising failure) is building a lopsided team weighted to one function of the business. Don’t hire people with skills and qualifications similar to yours. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Hiring the right people at the right time is key.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. We had to raise some seed capital. ER : Do you know how big of a fraction of the California vaccine rollout you guys have been? I would feel most stressed in the first couple minutes of discussion.