3 Mistakes Every Startup Makes - The Startup Tapes

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Dale is VP of Portfolio operations at VC firm Scale Venture Partners - he’s seen the number and met the teams at dozens of startups, and he’s here to share the 3 universal mistakes he sees almost every startup make once they enter their growth phase - from hiring to metrics, and more.
Guest: Dale Chang
VP Portfolio Operations at Scale Venture Partners
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Host: Tim Anglade
Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners
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The Startup Tapes chronicle the highs & lows of building a startup, through candid interviews with founders, operators & advisors. Tim Anglade, an Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners and formerly with Realm, Apigee, and Cloudant leads the project with the goal to de-mystify the process through which startups emerge, grow & succeed. His unfiltered interviews transcribe the conversations we often hear in the boardroom, amongst our portfolio community and with entrepreneurs and partners we engage with every day.
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[@RonVillejoConsulting]

3 mistakes:
(1) Copying and pasting what you did in the previous company
(2) Using metrics without first thinking things through
(3) Hiring people who are basically the same as you

[@rudhisundar]

Thanks!

[@anamericanentrepreneur]

My experience has shown the number one mistake is not having a strategy.

[@Spartacus547]

Please tell me how to hire for diversity in an engineering software company where there's only an applicant pool of 3000 women to get engineering degrees a year in the United States anyone got a solution for this?...

[@yousifhela]

wow that low seriously

[@hasantarek6521]

hire from Udacity

[@ozzyfromspace]

@@yousifhela I thought he was trolling so I looked it up, and about 11500 students got a postdoctoral engineering degree in 2017. About 24% were women... about 2700, or 3000 for a nice round number. I’m shook because the stars are actually worse at undergrad. A positive disclaimer is that these numbers are yearly so great over year, we have more women engineers joining the workforce 👏🏽. Source: www.asee.org/documents/papers-and-publications/publications/college-profiles/2017-Engineering-by-Numbers-Engineering-Statistics.pdf