The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters. It emphasized to us that we need to make versatile hires with a focus on talent and ability to learn over experience.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. A strong advisor can walk you in the door to the same number of companies as 2–3 new sales hires. As for compensation, stock options in the range of 0.1%

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Advisory Board Sweat Equity Marketing Vertical 48

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. If you do, hire him! He even added retail stores.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78