Let's vote! As a startup founder or CEO, what's the ONE area you wish you had more knowledge and skill in?

Helpful: Hiring the right people for corporate functions I myself have no experience with.
Smart: Marketing
Uplifting: Managing/leading people
Funny: Finance/Accounting

Comment if you have a different answer!

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I voted marketing. When I first built my business, marketing was such an opaque world with squishy metrics. With experience, marketing is no longer the black box it was, nor is it my primary focus. While marketing is often a core business need, mine is around building brand and heritage in service to clients. Marketing naturally evolves from the branding.

What I really wish I had more knowledge and experience in or even a co-founder would be biostats/system and data analytics/engineering.

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