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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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How Startups Can Develop a Positioning Strategy To Create a Lasting Brand with Rosabel Tao

Mucker Capital

In this Mucker Growth session, Rosabel Tao from Fire & Bridge delves into the critical field of startup positioning strategy and its crucial role in shaping enduring brands. The precision and authenticity of your positioning define your startup's identity and resonance. What is positioning? How do we develop positioning?

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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. Image: State of Startups. And with sales being a top priority for founders…. Image: State of Startups. …hiring a qualified sales leader is getting harder by the day.

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5 Missed Revenue Growth Opportunities of Second-Stage Startups

Sales Hacker

While every entrepreneur dreams of scaling their startup into a multi-million dollar company, many do not understand all that goes into that dream. Strict sales volume does go a long way in achieving long-term revenue growth, but processes and cross-department alignment are what allow sales volumes to scale in the first place.

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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?

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Set Yourself Up for Success with These Podcasts

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I subscribe to numerous podcasts that help me learn more about business and marketing, but also those further afield, in the hope that I can apply a learning or glean insight that can be leveraged in my sales enablement role. Recommended episode: Before the Startup - Paul Graham. I want to maximise each minute on my commute.