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ESG • 5 cards
* “The 10 Club is a group of 10 people you want to work with later in life, and every member should be kind, ambitious, and generous.”
David Perell • The Fruits of Friendship - David Perell
Hire friends and friends of friends. Go after these people like crazy to get them to join. Some other candidate sources are ok, but I always got bad results from technical recruiters.
Sam Altman • Startup Advice
Livingston: What advice would you give to a young programmer who's thinking of starting a startup? Levchin: Try to have a good cofounder. I think it's all about people, and, if you are doing it completely alone, it's really hard. It's not impossible, in particular if you are a loner and introverted type, but it's still really hard.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
awards, trade publications, and shared vendors. Your prospects want to learn from each other, so they network in different ways.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Pallet — Hire from the most talent-dense networks on the internet.
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Entrepreneurs often describe building a company as a harrowing experience and doing this alongside a peer group serves as an emotionally powerful initiation for many founders, similar in some ways to the initiation and bonding rituals for groups ranging from college fraternities to military recruits. Graham has said that bringing cohorts of entrepr... See more
Increasingly, building a successful startup involves not only building a product that people can’t get enough of, but also building an engaged, loyal community around that product.
The people who interact with your product generally fall into one of four buckets: Customers/users buy and/or use your product. Evangelists tell everyone they know to buy... See more
The people who interact with your product generally fall into one of four buckets: Customers/users buy and/or use your product. Evangelists tell everyone they know to buy... See more
Future • To Start Building a Community, Master These Two Concepts
Knowledge as an addictive drug—an investor’s guide to the expert network industry
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