I joined a startup right out of college. But I’m getting old(!) so I’m probably not the right person to write a post about why new grads should think about working at startups. The good news is that my team dug up 10 awesome posts from students who have interned at startups or who joined […]
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The 4 mistakes I’ve made negotiating startup job offers
Although it’s not quite as hard as negotiating cab fare, negotiating a startup job offer can be pretty tough, too. The good news is that you can learn from 4 of my past negotiating mistakes to help you quickly reach agreement on your startup job offer. Optimizing for cash rather than equity If you’re going […]
2 unconventional tips to help you succeed in your transition to startup marketing
Today’s post is from Healy Jones. I met Healy years ago when we were both working as VC’s and now he is a VP of Marketing at an education technology startup. Keep reading if you want to learn about what skills were most important in his career transition and the interview question he asks experienced […]
How do you move from SEM to VC to Mobile Startup? We asked Eric Friedman of Foursquare
Eric Friedman has had a diverse career that’s taken him from ad and SEM agencies to a venture capital firm and most recently to a mobile startup (Foursquare) where he leads the revenue operations team. Below Eric talks about why he made these career moves and shares his thoughts on why one might choose a […]
Do you need an Ivy degree to be a startup VP of marketing? Here are 4 data points to help you decide.
Does an Ivy League degree give you a better shot at cracking into the executive ranks at a startup? Most people, including me, would probably tell you that fancy book learnings don’t matter much at a startup – you just need to have a ‘JFDI‘ mentality to be successful. If that’s the case, maybe you wouldn’t […]
10 ‘table stakes’ tech skills for non-technical startup employees
The cries of “Learn to Code” are drowning out the reality of the situation at most early stage startups – that not everyone has software development skills and that it’s not practical to just pick up these skills while working 60+ hours a week at a startup. That being said, there are a bunch of […]
Don’t kid yourself – working at a startup is nothing short of chaos
It’s a common misconception that there is a fixed formula for startup success when in reality working at a startup is completely chaotic. Take it from my friend, entrepreneur Tejpaul Bhatia, who started and ran a seed funded startup for several years before successfully merging it with another startup. In this post he dispels two […]
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Don’t kid yourself – working at a startup is nothing short of chaos
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The 4 mistakes I’ve made negotiating startup job offers
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How do you move from SEM to VC to Mobile Startup? We asked Eric Friedman of Foursquare
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