So, You Want to Join a Startup

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Bussgang, a venture capitalist who teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, knows from personal experience and having funded many startups that there’s more than one way into that world. You don’t have to have a technical background. Excellent communication skills and a high emotional IQ are startup skills, too. Bussgang, the author of “Entering StartUpLand,” walks through the process of finding your dream job in a new company.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.2	I'm Kurt Nickish in for Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:37.1	One way to see how the economy is changing is to go to a city's commercial district and just see who's there.
0:47.0	100 years ago, this spot in downtown Boston was home to leather manufacturers.
0:53.6	Ten years ago, financial institutions.
0:56.4	And those are still here, but today the asset manager Fidelity is just blocks away from
1:01.4	startup incubators and co-working spaces.
1:04.4	You're just as likely to bump into a banker as you are a coder.
1:08.0	Deborah Hines works at a startup here.
1:10.0	But we manufacture and import goods from China and it's solely in e-commerce play.
1:14.8	Heinz used to work at a 150-year-old insurance firm nearby.
1:19.8	She left the corporate world to be part of a small team and own some equity in our
1:24.3	company. There's a real value to being passionate about what you're doing and
1:28.0	to feel like you're contributing and actually making a difference or moving the ball forward in a big way.
1:35.0	Another corporate transfer here is Tim Lozo.
1:38.0	Do you work down here?
1:40.0	I just started today.
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