This is a huge one, which won’t work in the best startups, but is a great strategy for someone trying to break in —- leverage a position at a cool tech, bad market fit, middling or even failing startup.

When my Mountain View startup disbanded, most of the team dispersed into Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and other large soon-to-IPO companies. Almost everyone ended up in a better place, and many of us would’ve had a hard time doing so before we joined.