Wayne Barz manager of Ben Franklin TechVentures posted the third installment in his Keystone Edge series, “Lessons from Incubating Innovation.” He observed that in an early-stage firm, if you’re the founder, you hire the next person, and then you and that person probably hire the third person, and so on. Good people hire good people. Even after the founder is gone, there is a genetic culture that creates the core of the corporate culture. Read more via Keystone Edge.
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Lesson #3: Your Corporate DNA Evolves With Every Person You Hire.
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