Little bugs in the way founders are wired as they move from seed to Series A

https://johnwdanner.medium.com/10-little-bugs-in-the-way-founders-are-wired-as-they-transition-from-seed-to-series-a-b94538855c1b

by rmason • 5 years ago

19 3 5 years ago

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justwalt• 5 years ago

This title was very hard for me to parse. I think I reread it almost ten times.

Uhhrrr• 5 years ago

It's an artifact of the posting guideline:

If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

It probably really should have been just "Bugs in the way founders are wired as they move from seed to Series A". Still a little hard to parse (But the actual article was good I thought, and resonated with my experience!).

dwohnitmok• 5 years ago

The article talks about hiring and firing and the hiring section is basically just a link to another article written by the same author: https://johnwdanner.medium.com/hire-fast-fire-fast-7af0e6c46...

There he says "You are going to be firing about 50 people in that first year to get to 70 amazing ones." That's a 42% attrition rate in the first year from firing alone (not counting resignations or layoffs). Has there been any successful company that has intentionally fired (i.e. not mass layoffs because of lack of funds) 42% of its staff in its first year?

Little bugs in the way founders are wired as they move from seed to Series A

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