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Assembling the Avengers (Or How Startups Evolve Their Team Structures to Scale)

March 28, 2016 by Ben Yoskovitz

Who doesn’t like the Avengers, right? The first movie was awesome. The second one was…still fun. And the Avengers are heroes. They saved the world. As startups scale they go through a few phases of team building. Where companies end up varies, I’ve been a part of a few different structures and spoken with many […]

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The Manager’s Job in a Scaling Startup

March 21, 2016 by Ben Yoskovitz

As a startup matures people’s roles change. In product, you might start out working on every little detail, triaging bugs, helping design UIs, deciding on how every feature should work and more. In engineering, you’re coding and building stuff every day. Over time if you move into a “management role” you get away from the […]

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Responsibility, Accountability and Levelling Up

March 15, 2016 by Ben Yoskovitz

In hierarchical organizations, levelling up is fairly clear–it means moving up the ladder from one position to the next. Those interested in doing so have a clearer path (although it’s not easy) to more responsibility. Hierarchies with lots of levels have all sorts of issues, but they do make levelling up more obvious. Startups are […]

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Structure Matters (Scaling Startups)

February 8, 2016 by Ben Yoskovitz

When you first start a company there’s very little structure involved. You have a couple founders, an idea and (hopefully) a ton of passion for the problem you’re trying to solve. Lean Startup provides a methodology for how to do things, but generally the work and overall experience is pretty chaotic. And that’s totally fine. […]

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Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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