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How to Configure Your Startup Team

Both Sides of the Table

Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use. It will pay huge dividends in avoiding the CEO tied up in admin and allow him / her to focus on bigger picture items. Engineering is critical but it is not everything.

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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

Tools such as LinkedIn are obviously useful, but it can also pay dividends to use your network to find potential hires. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a world of perfect rationality. This is why recruitment is a $429 billion industry.

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The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer

Andrew Payne

But this data highlights why the debate continues: highly productive developers (10x or otherwise) are problem-solving at a much higher level. They’re designing key abstractions that will pay dividends through the life of the project.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. Often, erosion of customer loyalty has been going on for years but the company has failed to perceive it—until it’s too late. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks.

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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

But when executed right, it pays dividends. In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy. You’ve completed customer research for your product development and positioning strategy.

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

If, instead of paying dividends to shareholders, money reinvested in the right opportunities can reap enormous rewards down the line. It has never paid out dividends, and clocks around $200 billion in revenue. Venkat Ramasamy leads operations, business development, sales and marketing functions at CodeLathe.

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How To See The Distinction Between Business Objectives And Business Priorities

YoungUpstarts

When the customer team at Hershey took this approach, and understood retail partners and their respective shopper profiles, the team was able to find money to fund growth by identifying areas where investment could yield dividends – and other areas where investment was unwarranted. Fish where there are fish.

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