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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

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There are times where your solution should work but it just doesn’t. It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. There’s a saying in startups that “being too early is the same as being wrong” and that’s true.

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

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Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine. How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? I've always worked on financial systems. READ MORE>>.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.