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Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook
How to convince people to join your startup
I actually researched and covered this in a previous issue, so go read that post. Here’s the high-level summary of what you need to get right:
I actually researched and covered this in a previous issue, so go read that post. Here’s the high-level summary of what you need to get right:
- Captivating vision —Make it easy for candidates to visualize what you are building toward and to feel like their work will be meaningful.
- A++ early team —The best
Lenny Rachitsky • Hiring your early team
Press cycles about million-dollar fund-raises and billion-dollar valuations are short-lived and targeted at aspiring entrepreneurs, not people like your customers. Building your audience that way doesn’t work, because a months-old startup has nothing to say, besides that a few rich people gave them some money. Trust me, I know.
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
We knew, even then, having watched how Data General financed itself, that you wanted to generate two things when you're looking for money. One is a sense of exclusivity, saying, "This is a very special kind of deal and not everybody is going to get into it." And secondly, a sense of urgency, so you can get people to make a decision.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
I try to give back now and help other people try to sort through stuff. I'm also much clearer about my values, and have been for quite a while now. I think business at all costs is just wrong. I think there are certain things that you just don't do, and that acting with integrity and decency in business to me is just a given. I simply don't comprom
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