Don’t Show Up Empty-handed’ and Other Tips for Finding the Right Job at a Startup
Plenty of books offer advice about how to start a business, interview for a job, or develop a career, but Jeffrey Bussgang’s work offers something else: a methodological approach specifically on how to find work at a startup.
Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job explains the unique opportunities and challenges that can come at a new company. Are you cut out to be an effective contributor in a chaotic and pressure-filled atmosphere? How does a career progress in a quickly developing enterprise? How do you find the right job? What are startup owners looking for in job candidates?
Bussgang is a good person to listen to on the subject. In addition to experience as an entrepreneur and consultant, he is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. He studies lean startups and the strategy and management challenges faced by founders. Bussgang also teaches the Launching Technology Ventures course.
Originally published at hbrascend.org.
