16 June 2014

Startup Tips From a Former Googler



Thomas Korte worked at Google for almost 9 years and he's now running AngelPad, a startup incubator. Thomas shared some of the things he learned at Google and could be useful for a startup:






* hire great people

* hire for the company, not for the job

* ask "why not?" instead of "why?"

* use data, not opinions

* put users first, money last

* share company information with employees

* build a culture that lasts

* give a license to dream (Google's 20% time - the permission from the company

to do things that are outside the normal scope of what you are doing)

* ask for forgiveness, not for permission (Google Books started as a service for scanning catalogs and Google didn't ask for permission to scan them).





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