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Borrow the Tactic the San Francisco 49ers Used to Go from Laughingstock to Super Bowl Contender

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When general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan were brought on board in 2017 to right a severely listing ship, John employed a lesson he’d learned in a class at Stanford. The Niners clearly have a winning playbook, filled with wily offensive schemes and staunch defensive stratagems.

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Matt Bachmann & Ben Gordon of Wandering Bear Coffee: “Hire people before you need them”

Thrive Global

We learned this early on, and then we’ve re-learned every six months or so. The best learning you get is by doing and the power you hold as an early stage company is the ability to test things quickly and cheaply without huge repercussions. Ben Gordon: Hire people before you need them. like, say, bookkeeping?—?and

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Matt Bachmann and Ben Gordon of Wandering Bear Coffee: “Just get started”

Thrive Global

The best learning you get is by doing and the power you hold as an early stage company is the ability to test things quickly and cheaply without huge repercussions. Less talking and more doing; this one could sometimes be a struggle for me and Ben early on. That’s often your only advantage. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”?

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Robin Kovitz of Baskits: “Rely on your team”

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Prior to acquiring Baskits in 2014, Robin worked in private equity on the buyouts of mid-sized companies and as a Summer Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group where she led a part of a large-scale cost reduction project at a Canadian bank. Robin Kovitz is the President & CEO of Baskits Inc., They felt happy and safe.