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 Career Advice for 3/17/14

Jiyan Wei writes a guest post for Forbes about lessons unlearned while working at a startup. Lynxsy writes about startup roles for people without technical backgrounds.

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Startup Jobs for 3/12/14

Nomi is hiring a Product Marketing Manager: If you want to join a rocket ship startup and are fascinated by the Internet of Things, I’m hiring a Product Marketing Manager. We’ve raised $13M from Accel Partners, First Round Capital & Greycroft Partners. Email me if you’re interested…details below: Nomi is hiring a Product Marketing Manager. The position will be […]

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Startup Jobs for 3/10/14

Picturelife is hiring a Marketing Manager. Tidal Labs is hiring a Product Manager.

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 3/3/14

theSkimm offers its pointers on how not to get a job with its company. theSkimm  is also hiring a Business Development leader: theSkimm is looking for a lead Business Development hire. Great opportunityto head BD efforts for a rapidly growing, early stage start up. Would loveyour help in sharing this listing (see below) with your networks orreferring us any […]

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Startup Jobs for 2/26/14

The NYC Uncubed event is happening on April 17th. Want to work for NYC’s most innovative companies like *Stack Overflow,Meetup, Knewton, BarkBox, HuffPost Code, WeWork, & 70+ more*?Head to NYC Uncubed on Thursday, April 17, for the country’s most exciting gathering of hiring startups–all looking for devs, engineers, designers, & experienced business talent. Featuring talks & classes with *Founders, […]

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Startup Jobs and Career Advice for 2/20/14

Brandon Hsiao asks on Hacker News what people did to get their first 100 users for a product. 10 startup founders write about the best advice they’ve ever received on The Daily Muse. Eric Greenberg (eric@innovationinvestments.com) is looking for a UX/UI Principal Visual Designer and a UX/UI Principal Interaction Designer/Prototyper for a new stealth startup company focused on social commerce: […]

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Startup Career Advice for 2/18/14

Entrepreneur Josh Hannah writes about why MBAs can be beneficial on his blog. Patrick Ewers, executive coach of Mindmavin, writes about ways that you can help your network help you. First Round Review details the top hacks from a product manager behind Facebook and Gmail.

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