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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. There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above. The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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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. There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above. The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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Sell More Faster

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A new book in the Techstars Series is Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Startups written by Amos Schwartzfarb , the Managing Director of Techstars Austin. When he took over the role of MD for Techstars Austin, he quickly became one of the go-to resources for other MD at Techstars for sales related advice.

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Gnip Is On Fire

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Gnip has been adding customers at rate that any investor would be proud of, is executing flawlessly on the product and operations side as it scales up, and is posting month over month growth numbers that put it in the “they are killing it&# category. I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

CTO Hire 131
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Help a Denver Food Bank Stay in their Home

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If you have an office in Denver, just five miles away from you is a food bank operating out of a warehouse month to month just so it can help anyone who comes through their doors. But, the building and land that Community Ministry has leased for decades is up for sale.

Denver 92
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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

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The people on the sales side don’t feel they can charge for it yet because who’s going to take out their wallet for something that isn’t perfect. At month six, one of the early hires leaves, a developer who turns out wasn’t a good fit. There is $350k left in the bank. Seven months in, there is a beta product.

Burn Rate 152
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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.