202 CLEARING THE HURDLES: WOMEN BUILDING HIGH-GROWTH BUSINESSES
Building a High-Potential Team
Chances are you launched your venture on your own or with a team of
people that included family members or people you already knew as
coworkers in an earlier job.
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Like most entrepreneurs, you used your
social framework as a starting point. At the next stage of growth, you
work within the networks you and your founding team know well and
begin to reach beyond those boundaries.
How do you get started in identifying additional individuals who
meet the criteria set forth by investors at the beginning of this chapter?
One way to consider the pool for team members is to think of the pos-
sibilities of three concentric circles of candidates for teams: family,
others ...