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The Problem with Startup Advice

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I have one failed attempt at a startup under my belt as a founder and I don't have any particularly usable skills that anyone would pay for like selling, designing, building, etc. Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball.

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Dear MBAs who want to work at startups

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and since your lifelong dream of being a banker doesn’t seem like a viable route anymore, you’re thinking that a startup might be the place for you. Well, let me break the news to you bluntly—most of you are going about this startup thing completely ass backwards and no early stage startup that I know of is really dying to hire an MBA.

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Careers in Tech Startups & Innovation: What will I learn?

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I've had the privilege of working not only for investors like Josh Kopelman and Fred Wilson, but for an institutional LP that had been invested in venture capital since 1980. 3) Build a peer network and get in the flow of best practices. Find the best startup CMOs while also branching out to your peer group to learn as a cohort.

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

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Actually, startups tend to drop the ball on recruiting the same way they mess up in PR. Startups need to aim for a constant buzz in the media in the same way that they should be bringing in a consistent flow of high quality talent--there's rarely a time when a growing company is out of the market for either. Talent Acquisitions.

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10 Things for Startups to Do in August While Everyone Else is on Vacation

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First off, I couldn't actually afford to go anywhere on a startup salary. So what's a startup to do during these two weeks? Chances are, they're not on vacation if they're thinking about leaving, or if they're at another startup that just isn't going anywhere. Second, there was way too much to do. Start reaching out.

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Experienced Heads and Cheap Legs: How to Leverage Mentoring and Advisers at a Startup

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Among the 99 problems that startups have, here are a few: - I have advisors and don't know how to make great use of them. - Frankly, it's not cost effective to pay a senior person to run a Twitter account anyway, and in the beginning of a startup, it's not clear you need a full time senior person. Hire someone cheap who can hustle.

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How to Get into Venture Capital - An Update

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About seven years ago, I wrote a post on breaking into venture capital and I continue to point the five or six people a week who ask me how to break into venture. And no, analyzing startups is not a portfolio company benefit. but in a city like New York, with it''s access to capital, "getting in" shouldn''t be the hard part.