Steve Parks

Startup Tips

There's been some interesting debate across a number of blogs today about some tips for startups. Some of them are rubbish - but some are gems.

It started with a post by Tech Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, which is mostly directed towards web startups, and I don't really agree with a lot of them.

But then Mike Arrington of TechCrunch weighed in, and he had some gems of advice. Here are some great quotes..

You must hire the right people. In particular, the early employees must be perfect. This is more important than anything else, including the product or business idea. Perfect teams can adapt to failing products or market/competitive issues and correct for that.

The most important part of hiring correctly is to not hire the wrong people. The second most important part of hiring correctly is to hire the right people. What that means is that it is better to not hire anyone at all if you can

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