Symptoms That Something Is Seriously Wrong at a Startup
For most of my professional career, from 1999-2007 I worked at large corporations (Conde Nast, John Wiley & Sons) and had almost no experience with either startups or small companies. There are huge differences in these work environments and for me, the most troubling was not knowing which problems were normal and which were signs of systemic problems that could kill the company. While working at one small startup I reached out to a VC friend with the following question:...