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7 Staffing Strategies That May Cost You Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. Marty Zwilling.

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7 Ways To Hire Your Way To Failure In A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. Marty Zwilling.

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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

Both Sides of the Table

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Interview with John Hanna, FunnelSource

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One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. Coming out here, I wanted to focus on what my specialty was, which is driving sales as a VP of Sales. What opportunities are hot, or cold?

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How to Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes with a VC — “Land and Expand”

Both Sides of the Table

controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. This is Sales 101. If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling The “A’s” typically don’t have investment authority and Principals it depends firm to firm.

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Fonality: More Than A Business Phone System, with David Scult

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In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company? Typically we have one owner, and they have three offices, and lots of really young sales people. We spoke with David Scult , the company''s CEO, to learn more about what the company is doing nowdays. Our best vertical is insurance.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

The power of large screen real estate. They are more likely to be the “bottom end of the sales funnel” or in other words close to “point of purchase.” I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites.

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