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How to Configure Your Startup Team

Both Sides of the Table

My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. Don’t hire a homogenous team.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Oh, you got me there right in the first question! In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. free weekly Infochachkie articles!