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How To Raise Your Seed & Series A with Brian Ascher, Venrock

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Founders, You Can Have Any Title, Doesn't Matter

As a founder, you are an individual contributor. But when you get the shiny object interem and hire big company exects in c capacities, you end up abstracting from being individual contributor to sea sweet. So don't do that. Higher slow do those extra ten, 15 interviews, back channel references. Would you work for this person? Would you come here? A big red flag is if an executive can't, doesn't have direct experience, rolling their sleeves in the vay thing they're taking on,. They can't ing other people with themand so those things are very important. Founders will always be the most important person of the company. No one knows the business

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