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Is the Future of Healthcare a Telehealth Company for Every Condition?

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By removing physical boundaries, the care delivery modality provides an obvious advantage to more efficiently match geographically unbalanced provider supply with patient demand. . Affordability . Patient-facing cost is a key driver of healthcare accessibility. Scalable Go-To-Market .

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Highlights from NextView’s inaugural Hiring Bootcamp

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Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages. Tracking your recruiting process provides you insights around the two most important aspects of hiring: Conversion.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

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Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. When to make your first analytics hire. So when should you start thinking about your first analytics hire? What to look for in your first analytics hire.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

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I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We hire generalists because the company wants to be able to dissolve one division one day if it’s not working, and then move those same people into something else that’s new or already working.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

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Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. It’s also important to match the marketer to the company. So I want to give it a month to match what we believe to be our sales cycle.

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Founders: Here’s the Most Powerful Way to Align with Potential Investors (Hint: It’s Not About Sector)

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When entrepreneurs think about approaching VCs to cultivate a relationship for a round, they often try to match their company with the sectors in which the VC has invested in the past. So, I think it’s sometimes tough to pattern-match based on sectors. That’s pretty rational.

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

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His solution was to cut a block of wood to match the intended size of the device and use paper sleeves to simulate various user screens and functionality. ” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. Another success.

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