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Fred WilsonPhil Sugar left a great comment on last week's MBA Mondays about Turning Your Team: Do not think that the reason you aren't scaling is because you need to bring in outside management. That will kill a team. This is the biggest worry I have because some will read this and think, I'm not growing […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
We live Chelsea, which is a mostly residential neighborhood in Manhattan and theoretically one of the world’s leading cities. Yet I have a choice of exactly one true broadband provider: Time Warner Cable. Verizon at my address offers DSL only, not FIOS. My Time Warner speeds are download at about […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThis has been a theme of mine since Roelof Botha put it in my head a few years ago. He said that entrepreneurs should approach building a company with the same passion that they have for building a product. I've been thinking about scaling the team a lot this week. There are parts of building […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
I have written before on Tech Tuesday on how to grow engineering teams but wanted to tackle this issue again from a slightly different perspective: what is the role of experience? Startup engineering teams often start out skewing very young as young founders tend to hire more young people. The […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA serial entrepreneur I know tells me "you will turn your team three times on the way from startup to a business of scale." What he means is that the initial team will depart, replaced by another team, which in turn will be replaced by yet another team. I have been closely involved with over […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys Last winter someone gave me a Nexus Android device they got at a Google event. It didn’t have phone service so I gave it to my son to play with. He took to it immediately, especially […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
