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Alex Iskold

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VC | Lead Pre/Seed @2048vc | 2048.vc | Coach @HarvardHBS | Blog startuphacks.vc | Systems Thinker

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15 Tips for Scaling your Startup’s Hiring Process — Startup Hacks by Alex Iskold

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By Alex Iskold
| Startuphacks.vc
First, a little bit of history… (If you are impatient, just scroll down to the tips). D.E. Shaw & Co. (aka DESCO) was one of the pioneers of modern quantitative trading. The firm was famous for being super secretive and super selective in its hiring. The firm’s success was predicated on bringing on board the smartest, most talented, and ultra-competitive people — from PhDs at top schools like MIT and Harvard to Putnam Medal winners. The place was as elite as it gets.
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The Deadly Sin of BURNING Money

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By Alex Iskold
| Startuphacks.vc
Startups fail for many, many reasons. This is just what happens. Paul Graham famously observed that most die from suicide, not from homicide, meaning that it is not the competition that kills, but typically the founders themselves destroy the business. Founders can break up or execute poorly. More often than not, founders can’t build the product that’s good enough for the customers to buy. If the founders are technical but not commercial, they may build a product but struggle to sell it.
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The Unfinished Business Founders

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By Alex Iskold
| Startuphacks.vc
VCs obsess with repeat founders, but there is a great difference between them and we 2048.vc gravitate towards a specific type of a repeat founder - Mission Driven founder working in the Same Space. We call them the Unfinished Business Founders. A lot of these founders are in Healthcare or Fintech or many other verticals where deep domain expertise, knowing the customers, knowing the problem, knowing how to sell really matters.
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