A community manager should be one of the first hires – right after a solid engineering group and before you invest in corporate marketing people.

“A community manager should be one of the first hires – right after a solid engineering group and before you invest in corporate marketing people.”
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Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers? – ReadWriteWeb
I don’t quite subscribe to this .. but just couldn’t resisting adding this simply cos I know this will get the goat of many [...]