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Highlights from NextView’s inaugural Hiring Bootcamp

View from Seed

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. Intense discussion on what are the right metrics to track around recruiting. Metrics, metrics, and metrics! Without metrics you cannot manage (and improve).

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. 3) Developer Driven Sales. Related articles. Scaling is Hard.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.

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See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework

Occam's Razor

Then there is Agile for engineering. My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). You are B2C or B2Q or Non-profit or an Adult-oriented business. And really the list is too long.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

It created awesome companies, but the army doesn’t do ecommerce, or much mobile, which are now the biggest growth engines in startups. when I wrote people a big cheque, they stressed out on metrics from day 1. The VC typically owns 25% of the value of its portfolio, so he needs to exceed $1.2 They were sporadic.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #24: Obsess About Real Business Profitability

Occam's Razor

Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. And what metric should you focus on in this proper end-to-end view? or other digital channels … The specific description of each step will be a little different for each Danaher portfolio company. They do everything.

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