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Hefetz: Headcount Is a Flawed Vanity Metric for Startup Growth
“Isn't the best case scenario that I've hired no employees and my revenue has 10 X'd? Like, why is the mark of a growing and successful company the number of employees they have? Which to me seems rather off.”
Hefetz: Early-Stage Startups Cannot Afford to Let Employees Learn From Mistakes
“With a startup, you're living year to year. I mean, this isn't a, I have 10 years to build a company, because maybe if you're cash flow positive as a startup, you do, but today with Divi, you know, we're a capital intensive business. We are kind of managing in…”
Hefetz: Diminishing Paid Returns Require Startups to Build Proprietary Distribution
“So I'd say paid is hard because I think that there's definitely diminishing returns. And the way you adjust that is by finding a proprietary distribution channel that really lets you scale up with lower costs.”
Hefetz: Investors Help With Networking, Not Solving Operational Problems
“Well, they definitely help with their network introductions and generally just being a cheerleader of what you do on a day to day basis. What maybe people are surprised, or at least my perception of what maybe they're not as helpful with is no one's going to k…”