Does an Ivy League degree give you a better shot at cracking into the executive ranks at a startup? Most people, including me, would probably tell you that fancy book learnings don’t matter much at a startup – you just need to have a ‘JFDI‘ mentality to be successful. If that’s the case, maybe you wouldn’t […]
About John Gannon
I have over 15 years of experience working in the trenches at successful startups, high growth companies, and VC firms. During that time, I've managed, interviewed, and coached hundreds of people -- and I've worked in almost every business functional role, including marketing, product management, and business development.Author Archive | John Gannon
10 ‘table stakes’ tech skills for non-technical startup employees
The cries of “Learn to Code” are drowning out the reality of the situation at most early stage startups – that not everyone has software development skills and that it’s not practical to just pick up these skills while working 60+ hours a week at a startup. That being said, there are a bunch of […]
Senior Product Manager at Proofpoint (SF / Bay Area)
StartupCareerAdvice.com contributor Kevin Epstein is looking to add some bandwidth to his product marketing team at Proofpoint. If you read his post on StartupCareerAdvice, you’ll get a sense for the types of candidates he prefers to hire into marketing roles (hint: hands on marketers with great communication skills and some technical acumen) . After reading that […]
3 ways to aspire to startup work life balance
When I was an early stage startup employee I was frequently pulled between the intense, always on demands of our company (which weren’t unique by any stretch) and the intense, always on aspects of being a husband and loving father of two little girls. Lots of folks in the community write about managing startup work […]
3 startup career links you’ll love
I’m constantly scouring Twitter and my RSS feeds for the best startup career content I can find so that I can pass it on to you. On that note, here are three gems I stumbled across this week: Aspiring product managers should give Satya Patel’s recent product management manifesto a look. Satya was an early […]
Work-Bench (NYC) is hiring a Director of Business Development
I assume if you’re reading this post and this blog that you want to work in the startup ecosystem. Perfect! Because I just heard about this really interesting Director of Business Development job over at Work-Bench, a new accelerator for enterprise startups based in NYC that’s backed by the good folks at RR Donnelley. In […]
VMTurbo (Boston) hiring an Inside Sales Executive
Want to join one of the hottest enterprise software startups in Boston? VMTurbo (where I worked previously and where StartupCareerAdvice.com contributor Dmitry Shkliarevsky leads the customer success team) is looking for an Inside Sales Executive to join the team. Here’s what they’re looking for in potential hires: Minimum of 2-3 years direct sales experience Proven track record […]
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