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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

You were the shoulder I would go and cry on anytime I would have some sort of executive-level problem or executive recruiting problem. We’re coming at it from the lens of not being recruiters. And when you’re in the executive recruiting process, feeling is not scientific. Tell me what the priorities are.”

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One Call to Make Before Picking Your Startup's Headquarters

Tom Tunguz

If you must choose a long term headquarters for your startup, call an executive recruiter who focuses in that city. VP Engineering, VP Product, VP Sales, VP Customer Success, VP Marketing, or VP Operations. After establishing product market fit, the startups grow their management team to scale.

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Founders Shouldn’t Hire a VP of Sales—Here’s Why

OpenView Labs

According to First Round’s 2019 State of Startups report , sales leadership is the most difficult hire to make. And with sales being a top priority for founders…. …along with it getting harder to recruit top-quality talent… Image: State of Startups. Know how to construct a hiring process that works well.

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The Expectation of Winning

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Those doing the work are obviously talented, but it’s often the management which are responsible for creating the environment for people to thrive. However, Indeed.com is still some way off displacing LinkedIn – and the recruitment space is only going to get more competitive and exciting now Google has entered the fray.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Persona and market insights come in here – even though we’re at an early point in the sales process. But what are these insights that will transform the conversations salespeople have?

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Tech-Based Communication Solutions to Improve Sales and Marketing Processes

InsightSquared

With communication taking on digital forms, tech-based tools and solutions are lucrative to the success of a modern sales and marketing strategy. The same survey determined that millennial managers are the most concerned at 51%. Invest in a human capital management (HCM) solution, like this option , to do just that.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?