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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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Gnip Is On Fire

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Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. Oh, and they are hiring as fast as they can find great people ; across the spectrum (business, sales, & engineering). At this point, the other co-founder, Jud Valeski, stepped up to be the CEO.

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The Three Machines

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The focus of each person is on a specific functional area (finance, marketing, sales) and traditionally scoped. Naturally, you will have a product or engineering leader for Product, you will have a sales, marketing, or operations leader for Customer, and you will have a finance or admin leader for Company.

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Title Inflation Emerges With A Vengence

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I’ve seen more business cards or email sigs lately with adjectives like “executive&# or “senior&# or “senior executive&# or “special&# or “chief&# in front of more traditional titles (e.g. “vice president&# ). I’ve never paid much attention to titles.

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