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• ♠️ How Taylor Crane went from poker player to VC-backed founder to fractional head of product

• 🤝 How he found his first clients as a fractional

• 🤑 Strategies for maximizing take-home pay

• ❌ Biggest challenges and mistakes in fractional job searches, what to do about them, and the crucial mindset shift required to succeed

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🎯 Fractional job search | Taylor Crane

Taylor is a 2x founder with a 10+ year background as a PM for early-stage startups. Currently he's founder of Fractional Jobs, the hiring marketplace for startups looking to hire expert fractional talent. Previously he was founder of Clubs Poker, backed by Village Global, scaled to 100k+ users, and acquired by KHK Games in 2023.

Tell us about your career journey.

I was an online poker player in college when it was suddenly banned in the USA my senior year. I quickly switched focuses out of necessity from poker to startups after graduation (probably for the best). I spent about 10 years as a PM across a wide range of industries like mar-tech, insure-tech, prop-tech, and more.

In the second week of covid, I took a chance to start what became Clubs Poker, an online poker app for friends to play over video chat. I raised venture capital, and rode that roller coaster for a few years. We weren’t able to raise our seed round in the market downturn, and instead got acquired by KHK Games to launch a real-money poker company in the US market.

After a much-needed sabbatical in Bali, I jumped back into the game as a Fractional Head of Product for early-stage startups, the thing I know best. My experiences in the fractional world led me to start my next company way quicker than I expected, Fractional Jobs.

Recently, you exited your last startup, Club Poker, before becoming a Fractional Head of Product for early-stage startups. What made you decide on pursuing a fractional career?

It was a direct result from building Clubs Poker and being absolutely desperate for expert-level help on the areas of the business I was less skilled at (e.g. marketing). After Clubs, it felt very natural to want to offer that expert help to startups.

I also had the intention of starting another company at some point, and felt like the flexible lifestyle and money from doing fractional work was a great way to bootstrap.

Many professionals don’t know how to get started as a fractional operator. How did you design your first offer and find your first 2 clients?