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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

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The video link is here and quick time-coded show notes at the end of the post in case you want to jump ahead to just one section. The video link is here and quick time-coded show notes at the end of the post in case you want to jump ahead to just one section. When & Whom should you hire? What is your sales process?

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. So I naturally spend much time with the companies in which I invest helping them: recruit. Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. Don’t hire a homogenous team. and so forth.

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6 Pain Points Any Fast-Scaling Startup Needs to Know

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So you’ve finally got your startup up and running. But as you have probably realized at this point in your startup journey, the learning process is constantly changing as your startup reaches new stages. The next stage after a successful seed round is to start proving that your business model can scale. Scared yet?

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6 Hiring Lessons from Vince Lombardi

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The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment . Success is like anything worthwhile.

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A Dozen Team-Building Tips Inspired By The Dirty Dozen

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The classic phases of team-building, Forming, Storming and Norming were first identified by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. The interviews also help him assess whether or not each prisoner has an appropriate personality to become a productive member of a close-knit team. That is exactly what Major Reisman is forced to do in E.M. Think Again.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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They’re essential in helping us get our jobs done because they specialize in something we do not. And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. I said, “If I start with your position I have nowhere to go but down. Middle Men.

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10 Ways Startups Can Reduce Expenses in 2016

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We can’t give you a recipe for success, but here are 10 ways to lower your startup’s expenses and free up capital in 2016. Hire freelancers, temps, or college students. Your startup may require a few full-time employees, but hiring freelancers, temps, or college students for specific tasks can considerably reduce payroll expenses.

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