About John Gannon

I have over 15 years of experience working in the trenches at successful startups, high growth companies, and VC firms. During that time, I've managed, interviewed, and coached hundreds of people -- and I've worked in almost every business functional role, including marketing, product management, and business development.

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 6/25/14

By on June 25, 2014 in Career Advice, Job Search Tips

Rhys Fisher writes about winning in the current job market on Medium. Uber, the startup transportation network company, is hiring a Director of Product Partnerships.  

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Startup Career Advice for 6/23/14

By on June 23, 2014 in Career Advice

Tobias van Schneider, design lead at Spotify, writes about how side projects should be stupid. Spencer Lazar, Principal at General Catalyst, writes about switchers, growers, heroes and rocketships of the startup career-navigation world.

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 6/16/14

By on June 16, 2014 in Career Advice, Startup Jobs

Tidal Labs is hiring a Sales, Operations and Recruiting Coordinator, as well as a Client Success Manager for Social Campaigns (must have LinkedIn account to view.) Kevin Epstein, marketing executive and author of Marketing Made Easy, is teaching a Stanford Continuing Studies course entitled Marketing for Non-Marketing Professionals. Skinesiology is looking for a co-founder to handle business and […]

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Startup Jobs for 6/11/14

By on June 11, 2014 in Startup Jobs

Lingo Live, a site for connecting foreign language learners with native professionals online, is hiring a Director of Customer Outreach. Fiverr, an online marketplace for services starting at $5, is hiring a Director of Category Development.

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Startup Career Advice for 6/4/14

By on June 4, 2014 in Career Advice

Jillian Ferrante writes for VMTurbo about how to get promoted faster at a startup. Ari Paparo shares a site for simulating a product management interview via Twitter.

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Startup flakes

By on June 4, 2014 in Career Advice

Now that I am a founder I am particularly sensitive to a certain type of person I’ll call (for lack of a better term) a startup flake. A startup flake does things like: Meet with a founder, ostensibly about a job with that founder’s company, but then tell them what you are really trying to do […]

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Building relationships with VCs as a startup employee

By on June 2, 2014 in Networking Tips

If the startup where you work has taken on VC or angel money and it’s a relatively early stage startup there is a good chance you will have some exposure to the investors.  Especially if you are a somewhat senior hire or one of the earliest employees at the startup. If this describes you or your company then […]

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