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How to Develop and Speed Up Your Hiring Strategy After a Round of Funding

Up and Running

Startups in their infancy often face a problem when it comes to hiring. This is a problem that most startups face when hiring. If you have raised the capital that you need, you need to hire quickly to execute your plans. Questions to ask before hiring. Why is it taking so long to hire someone?

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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] 20:58] Are there any overlooked channels or platforms worth exploring? This is John Jantsch.

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6 Startup Challenges That Can Be Mitigated With Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure. More money is hard to find, and building efficient multiple processes is even harder.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. Select new hires with attention to values. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly. Jeff Bezos at Amazon credits much of his success to this approach.

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6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure. More money is hard to find, and building efficient multiple processes is even harder.

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Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Distribution Channels

Steve Blank

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Channel Cost = $350-400,000 per sales team.

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Hiring Writers at Your Startup? Scrap Your Usual Approach

View from Seed

The best writer I ever hired at a startup wasn’t a former journalist. The best writer I ever hired at a startup didn’t have a resume. The best writer I ever hired at a startup is trying to work at your startup all the time, but 99 out of 100 times, you pass. Why We All Usually Botch This Hire.

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