saas | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:22:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/wallstreetdealmaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pitbullgif.gif?fit=32%2C22&ssl=1 saas | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com 32 32 155119938 VPs https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2020/09/vps/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2020/09/vps/#respond Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:22:32 +0000 https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/?p=2247 I’m going to link today to a post on Saastr about VPs (Vice-Presidents) from Jason Lemkin and what that job entails. I’ve been following Jason since 2016. “This is job #1 for all your VPs.  Recruiting. “ Jason Lemkin Don’t just check who they managed at their last company.  Check … Continue ReadingVPs

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I’m going to link today to a post on Saastr about VPs (Vice-Presidents) from Jason Lemkin and what that job entails. I’ve been following Jason since 2016.

This is job #1 for all your VPs.  Recruiting. “

Jason Lemkin

Don’t just check who they managed at their last company.  Check who they hired.  Not inherited as a manager.  But hired themselves.  And make sure they hired at least 2 good folks.  And ask to talk to both of those 2 great hires.  And figure out if they really are great

Jason Lemkin

If you work in venture capital, make sure you read Bessemer Venture Partners Memos. There’s a wealth of information there about the investment process in their targets: Twitch, Shopify, Mindbody, Linkedin, Pinterest, etc.

And the Quote of the Day comes from Friedrich Nietzsche:

aesthetischen Sokratismus…dessen oberstes Gesetz ungefähr so lautet: “alles muss verständig sein, um schön zu sein”; als Parallelsatz zu dem sokratischen “nur der Wissende ist tugendhaft.”

aesthetic Socratism, the chief law of which is, more or less: “to be beautiful everything must first be intelligible” — a parallel to the Socratic dictum: “only the one who knows is virtuous.”

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