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Seedcamp, the interview
Transcript from my mentoring sessions at seedcamp, London.
- alain94040 17y agoDirect, but great at getting to the point. If you are about to do your own startup, read this. It's quick to read (but will take a while to really impact how you think).
- betashop 17y agoMe: thanks.
- ankeshk 17y agoDon't agree with his point about not hiring any sales guys early on. If you personally are not good with sales, you definitely should look to hire / partner with someone who is. Product development and sales should get equal prominence. As Peter Drucker says "the business enterprise has two - and only two - basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs."
- betashop 17y agoMe: Of course, sales and marketing are important functions. The question is when do you need them? I would argue that for most early-stage tech companies these days priority #'s 1 through 10 should be product, product, product ... product. Get as far as you can as fast as you can with the product, then once you have gained some decent degree of user feedback and user demand, then focus on go-to-market, not before.
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