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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

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The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Here are just a few things you might look for: Reducing risk in young companies Bringing innovation to the enterprise Designing and running experiments Customer development strategies All conference passes are on sale right now, and you can compare them here.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Check your assumptions, what went wrong?