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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago I shared some important leadership lessons from Stewart Butterfield , including investing in your own growth to make sure that the founder scales as fast as the company. It requires reinventing yourself dramatically in very little time. First – choose your path: do you really want to transition into a manager? .

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. You will initially spend majority of time personally working with individual accounts and coaching sales team. You make it happen.

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What does a Head of People do? Learning from Ada’s Chelsea MacDonald

Version One Ventures

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. She was a data analyst and has been in People and leadership roles since 2011. And she has just about completed 60 to 140 ( Ada is hiring !). Reviewed data on bot conversion, had a discussion about % of future that’s managed services vs product.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. I’m not a big believer in too much hierarchy.

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A Scaling Magic Trick

Feld Thoughts

There are many things about this that are difficult, but a vexing one has to do with the leadership team. Often times, the wrong people are in senior positions. a first time founding CEO), the more likely it is a problem. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Take a simple example.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. A CTO’s real value is in finding opportunities with asymmetric payoffs. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. Autonomy to self-manage.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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