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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

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Each company approaches this challenge uniquely, but there are a few features consistent in every workplace that are hard to leave. In Silicon Valley, the average tenure for an engineer is eighteen months, and one-third of new hires leave after only six months. Focus on retaining your engineers from day one. Career Growth.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

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When we benchmarked ourself, when we started this company, we didn’t say we wanted to be the biggest company in Raleigh. We didn’t say we want to be the biggest company in North Carolina. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. This is never going to work.”

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Customer Interviews: The Most Insightful B2B Marketing Technique Marketers Often Ignore

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We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. And most of the time, the unseen features will provide a better product positioning or marketing message against competitors. As people or members of the same team, we’re biased.

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Customer Interviews: The Most Insightful B2B Marketing Technique Marketers Often Ignore

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We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. And most of the time, the unseen features will provide a better product positioning or marketing message against competitors. As people or members of the same team, we’re biased.