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How Andela Finds and Trains World-Class Engineers in Africa [Traction #41: Christina Sass]

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Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. Channel Links: iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play. Channel Links: iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

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Will new, native distribution channels emerge? Internally at NextView, we’ve talked about this wave of innovation wave in the same breath as the internet or the internal combustion engine, or even humanity’s ability to harness to electricity. Are these features, products, or actual companies? How defensible are these businesses?

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How to Ditch the False Silver Bullets and Run a Growth Hacking Process

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Today, we talk about this notion of growth hacking and debunk some myths, then walk through a smart process you can use to start running a growth engine strategically, instead of seeking false silver bullets. Channel Links: iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play. Find their book, Hacking Growth , on Amazon.

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Gotham Alpha # 5: Skillshare’s Alex Qin on NYTech’s Diversity Gap and How To Fix It

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NYTech does not mirror the diversity of its host city… Today on Gotham Alpha, I talk to Alex Qin, Skillshare engineer and founder of Code Cooperative, about the reality of New York Tech’s diversity gap…what factors actually reinforce hiring prejudice here…and how we can all start to fix this problem, right now.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

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You might be able to get your engineering team to do some of the above, but you most likely can’t offload the strategic thinking around “what metrics/ways to look at the data is the best to answer X question” until you have someone focused on analytics full-time. dashboard, and implementing some sort of automated report generation.

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The What, How & Why of Hiring a Business Development Lead at Your Startup [Traction #35]

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This is a deep, nuanced exploration of a job role that doesn’t often fit as neatly into departmental categories as engineering, product, sales, or marketing. Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts: Channel Links: iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play. And Kristen is one of the best in the biz to discuss it.

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A Framework for Startup Traction & Pitfalls to Avoid [Traction #12: Gabriel Weinberg]

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In this episode, we talk to Gabriel Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of the search engine Duck Duck Go and author of the book, Traction , now in its second edition. There were lots of channels we found that you can use to gain traction. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher. We catalogued 19.

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