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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

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It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. 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? when is the right time to hire your first sales employee?

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. Don’t hire a homogenous team.

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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. Endless market research, late nights, more than one launch, bottomless coffee pots, and a grueling seed round have led to this. 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.

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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 . It has a price.

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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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The Disappearing Face Of Mainstream Retailing Setting

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The internet has revolutionized human life by being able to provide instant and quick access to information. It has also improved the everyday services that we usually encounter—from banking, booking plane tickets, and even conducting business and the bigger picture of retail marketing. Trending: #OnlineRetailing.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face.