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The relevance of some of this advice seems like it best serves an VC track company dealing with SV ecosystem pros and cons - especially commentary around invest
by crsv 8y ago
The relevance of some of this advice seems like it best serves an VC track company dealing with SV ecosystem pros and cons - especially commentary around investor behavior and availability.
Some of the points around distractions, planning, and tactics do apply outside the bay, but in general the term "High Growth" feels like "early high valuation large cash infused startup", which while interesting, isn't terribly relevant to an extremely large portion of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Given that - does anyone have any recommendations for reading in this space that are a bit less "valley flavored"?
- eladgil 8y agoThanks for the feedback and for taking a look. Outside of financing and M&A, most of the topics in the book are core to most fast growing companies - Silicon Valley or not. They key is whether the company needs to grow rapidly, or is a rapidly growing division of a company. "Grow rapidly" means "scaling revenue (and if the right time for the company, profits), and growing headcount and organizational complexity". If it is a 12 person org that is not going to grow, only a smaller subset of topics apply. Key topics include things like hiring and managing an executive team, your role as CEO, organizational topics (re-orgs, choosing what executive owns what etc.), marketing and PR, product management, managing your board, building a recruiting pipeline and recruiting organization. Many of these are reasonably universal topics. To your point, what I know best is silicon valley technology companies, and the book reflects that experience (versus that of an industrial company). Thanks again for taking a look!