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jbg331 | 12 years ago

One of the most interesting comments during the Q and A was Aaron recommended people don't be blinded by resumes (paraphrasing) "Just because people work at google, they might have 10k people there, doesn't mean they all [google employees\ are qualified or a good fit to join an early stage start up"

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SteliE|12 years ago

Agree! Also love the "Hire Builders not Growers". Lots of founders make the mistake to hire sales people in the very early stages of their startup that have no experience in doing sales for a 4 person startup team (and came from a tech company they joined as employee #400)

tmcneal|12 years ago

I can't imagine you'd come across many folks with the experience you described looking for a sales role at 4 person startup. If a salesperson was employee #4 at a startup, and that startup was successful, I would imagine he or she would pursue a Senior Sales / VP of Sales role at a more established startup vs. a lateral move.