Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner ”. The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner. You may be too independent to be partner material. Compatible work styles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal business partner. In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” You may be too independent to be partner material. Does not need to be managed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

There is an old management adage that says, “Hire slowly, fire fast.” Hire Slowly? I also subscribe to the views that you should always be recruiting (ABR) and when great people pop up you hire them and then find a way to make the role fit. Only Hire A+ People. Hiring at a Startup. Attitude over Aptitude.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Then it extends to the hiring process. The rest is history. Investors (and team members and partners) find that it’s more effective to assess an entrepreneur’s fit to these personal characteristics than it is to assess the real potential of an idea, or the probability of good luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. All the rest are bad risks, including problems you didn’t anticipate, competitors you didn’t know about, and customer expectations that you can’t meet. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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David Teten

JANUARY 15, 2019

Who should you hire: the superstar with great skills who feels like a poor fit with the culture, or the person with weaker skills but who fits in culturally? Even though I believe in hiring the stranger , cultural fit really matters. Every hire shapes future culture; the new person might be an infusion of useful straight talk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

Then it extends to the hiring process. The rest is history. Investors (and team members and partners) find that it’s more effective to assess an entrepreneur’s fit to these personal characteristics than it is to assess the real potential of an idea, or the probability of good luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2019

By carefully recognizing and focusing upon the very core of the business, these CEO’s are allocating their scarce cash resources to hire the best talent they can find to support that core business, and then reaching out to partners, independent contractors, and other small businesses to provide all other functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. All the rest are bad risks, including problems you didn’t anticipate, competitors you didn’t know about, and customer expectations that you can’t meet. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. How Decisions are Made After the Partner Meeting “The lead partner might also be using this opportunity to dive deeper into areas that you might not have had the chance to cover during the first/second meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2019

If AT&T, IBM and Google acknowledge these courses as a viable way to train employees, I think the rest of us can too. In fact, numerous companies partner with well-known online nanodegree programs so they can have access to graduate information. It is not an academic degree. Does a Nanodegree Prepare Me for Work?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The emphasis on the rapid development and iteration of MVP’s is to speed up how fast you can learn ; from customers, partners, network scale, adoption, etc. And that he could identify the resources needed, (outsourced contract developers who could build it for him) and he would hire a partner to do so.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Who can I hire later? Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. The answer to that question is what goes in the “Resources” box on the canvas (and if third parties outside your company are going to provide it, in the Partners box.).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Diving into the financials, dealing with vendors, the hiring process, or a variety of other tasks—no one is passionate about every facet of business operations. Find the right partners. So, you need to find mentors, partners, and employees who are. But with the added benefit of having people you trust handling the rest.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Smart hiring practices make a difference. It’s possible to take a new hire and train them to fit into your corporate culture, but it’s even better to hire people who are a good fit to begin with. which he and two partners started in 1987 to design and build offshore oil platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners. What does that mean?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. It has allowed me to restructure my company around the job that I enjoy and where I can have the most influence while delegating or outsourcing the rest. 8- Incorporate more videos.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 23, 2012

By carefully recognizing and focusing upon the very core of the business, these CEOs are allocating their scarce cash resources to hire the best talent they can find to support that core business, and then reaching out to partners, independent contractors, and other small businesses to provide all other functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

If you have had a bad day, or are in a negative state of mind, skip any tough negotiation sessions with partners and personnel discussions. Go home until your mind is rested and positive. Hire the best, and provide necessary training and tools. Do your homework on new investors, partners, and vendors.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

This will not only help you promote your grand opening, but also strategize the rest of your marketing efforts. If you aren’t savvy with design, you can hire a graphic designer for low costs on freelancer websites like UpWork and Fivver. You can also partner with other local businesses to leverage their efforts as well.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. It can be a small and nimble startup like Origin, or a company with 50 employees and hiring more every quarter. It took Alex a long time to find an engineer to partner with without the network gained from working at a startup first. Your startup becomes irrelevant. Become comfortable with rejection.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2023

Stay fit and rested. You will have more energy and think more effectively if you are in shape and rested. In addition, you’re a role model for partners and employees. Hire people who have skills you don’t have, but share your values. Real job performance is more a function of productivity than hours worked anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

We will persevere and move forward together,” to which the CEO added “The future rests in many ways on hard days like this, but we believe we owe it to the team to understand this and to move forward. Now they are partners. of Elon’s ideas to come to fruition and let him fail on the rest. I was not fried.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2021

An entrepreneur has to engage with team members, partners, investors, vendors, and customers. There is no better way to find out how engaged the rest of the team really is. Hire and promote the right behaviors. Success in a startup is not possible as a “one-man show.” It works at all levels. Focus on communication at all levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. All the rest are bad risks, including problems you didn’t anticipate, competitors you didn’t know about, and customer expectations that you can’t meet. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2012

Then it extends to the hiring process. The rest is history. Investors (and team members and partners) find that it’s more effective to assess an entrepreneur’s fit to these personal characteristics than it is to assess the real potential of an idea, or the probability of good luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2013

Then it extends to the hiring process. The rest is history. Investors (and team members and partners) find that it’s more effective to assess an entrepreneur’s fit to these personal characteristics than it is to assess the real potential of an idea, or the probability of good luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. All the rest are bad risks, including problems you didn’t anticipate, competitors you didn’t know about, and customer expectations that you can’t meet. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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