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If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. At Feld Technologies, our fourth employee (hired in 1989) did all of our accounting. At that point, we hired a woman named Stephanie Wallace to be our Controller. At 15 people, you want someone who will do all the work, but also has the ability to scale up and manage a small team. MORE
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Each person we hire contributes to not only the development of the product, but also to the productivity of the team and overall company culture. This is especially dangerous when hiring mistakes happen at a time when the company is still young and its culture is loosely defined.
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