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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

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It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. 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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Final startup grind from msuster. 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. identify gaps.

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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. Hiring Too Fast . What’s the way to counterbalance a few too many sloppy hires?

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10 Ways Startups Can Reduce Expenses in 2016

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The good news is we know what attributes successful startups tend to have in common: they produce a product or service that meets a specific need, they thrive on the uncertainly of startup culture, and they don’t run out of cash. Hire freelancers, temps, or college students. Hire freelancers, temps, or college students.

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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. Let me start with an example. Middle Men. Middle People? Recruiters. You name it.

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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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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Oh, you got me there right in the first question! Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? That’s what we’ve started to tackle and the mission RightScale is on. 9) The story of how you started RightScale is classic.