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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. Bringing in a senior person who’s “done it all before&# is often a mistake in a startup. Your solution?

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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We caught up with Ryan (who calls himself an "anti-VC") to hear more about his investment firm, which has invested in such companies as Heal , Elite Daily , Saucey , and FragMob. Tell us a bit of the story on how you started HashtagOne? We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. Instead of stepping back, they both leaned in.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Making The Enterprise Cloud Real: Unitas Global's Cloud Vision

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We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. The sale approach is actually very different in those markets.