Why Early Startups Need to Be Quick to Fire

Sometimes founders start off with great friends who make lousy employees

Joe Procopio
Marker
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6 min readDec 9, 2019

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LLast week, one of the founders I’m advising cleaned house. She let almost everyone go and put the few who remained on a different compensation and equity plan. The thing is, her startup wasn’t in trouble — in fact, it was financially sound and growing.

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Joe Procopio
Marker
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Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com