In our second video from EconSM 2008, Social Approach’s CEO Shawn Gold moderated Getting Real: Grown-Up Start Ups with Dalton Caldwell, imeem’s founder and CEO, Seth Goldstein, SocialMedia Networks’ co-founder and CEO, Keith Richman Break.com’s co-founder and CEO, and Toni Schneider, Automattic’s CEO. In this panel covering the topic of moving start ups past the early adopters phase and finding a lucrative exit, Caldwell pointed out the importance of taking time to “suck” in order to learn from mistakes. Meanwhile, Goldstein revealed his own motto to be to “hire slow and fire fast,” getting out the employees who just don’t work out, and not being afraid to hire under-experienced people with “a lot of hustle.” Check out our coverage of this panel and watch the video (RSS readers will have to click through). All of our EconSM 2008 videos will be posted here.

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