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How to Make Better Reference Calls

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Reference calls. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Don’t worry about the fact that these are the references that the candidate has hand-picked – that’s part of the process.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. ” So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. An obvious example would be in sales. You’re also learning directly about the skills of your sales staff by observing them in action.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. I was working hand-in-hand with my close friend and associate Stuart Lander who was running our UK office and with one of our local sales reps.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. I was working hand-in-hand with my close friend and associate Stuart Lander who was running our UK office and with one of our local sales reps.