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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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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. Similarly I liked to keep myself apprised of the technical decisions we were making. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres.

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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. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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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. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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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. I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Please call our references.

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Embrace Losing

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It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). We helped the write out their requirements for a system. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. You are most vulnerable right after it has been announced that you won (I will write a separate post on this).

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5 Attributes Of People Who Will Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Next comes the more arduous process of reviewing every applicant, looking for key attributes including the following. On a business team, the ability to communicate verbally and in writing is more important than technical depth. Get it reviewed and approved by peers, including salary and perks. Good communication skills.