October 2017
Beginner
240 pages
5h 26m
English
As I noted in chapter 1, the startup universe is a large one and can seem overwhelming and impenetrable to the uninitiated. And that’s why I’m often asked by freshly minted graduates and seasoned professionals alike how they should go about getting a job at a startup. They know that StartUpLand has all these magical, positive attributes, but they’re afraid of it because they don’t know how to break into it. Often they have functional experience; they may come from the marketing department at IBM, for example, or the product management department at Staples, or the finance department at GE. Yet, they do not know quite how to apply those functional skills into a startup role. Also, they may have trouble knowing how to find ...