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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. And you need to be careful about giving up control to cofounders as much as VCs. Don’t hire a homogenous team. identify gaps.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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And yes, VC’s, too. And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. I said, “If I start with your position I have nowhere to go but down. They do a routine task over-and-over again all year long that we do only periodically.