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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

www.ere.net

The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. WWW search engines. Sales and Guest Relations Manager for CIS, Eastern Europe & Greece. Direct contacts, competitor known. No contacts, competitor known.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. Having an engineering or scientific background is what makes you more attractive for investment, not an MBA. The good part of failure. Changing the mindset.

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