Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start. Pick one section each week.

Fractional CTO 195

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

Nowadays, businesses of all sizes need to adapt to new marketing channels, invest in the best technologies, and attempt to compete on a global stage. If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Future Uncertainty. Recruitment Issues.

Reputation 127

Reputation Technical Review Global Leadership 127

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For most startups the idea of hiring a CBDO is a pipedream, it’s a role that only global corporations have, right? If a startup is partner or channel heavy, those areas may be the focus of the Sales team in general. If a startup is partner or channel heavy, those areas may be the focus of the Sales team in general.

Hiring 71

Hiring Developer Due Diligence Bandwidth 71

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. This typically plays out in three ways: Often the first plan from leadership for innovation is hiring management consultants who bring out their 20th-century playbook.

Government 320

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 320

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2024

How to Hire a Fractional CMO: The Smart Way to Scale written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Are you looking at your business goals and feeling your marketing strategy just isn’t cutting it? This is where hiring a fractional CMO can make a significant difference. When should I hire a fractional CMO?

Hiring 76

Hiring Leadership Differentiation Cost 76

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The main draw for companies towards hiring a fractional chief marketing officer lies within this inherent flexibility—a godsend especially for startups or smaller firms that might not have ample resources yet require top-notch talent steering their go-to-market strategy. It’s akin to flying first-class without having to buy the entire plane.

Marketing 70

Marketing Technical Review Salary Social Media 70

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Instead of hiring from outside, my goal for 2022 is to focus on growth and provide leadership chances within our firm. 22- Allow people take on leadership roles.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Revenue Channel Technical Review 131

YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2018

million hires in 2017. While that’s good news for employers and job seekers, an increase in recruiting can also increase the risk of HR and hiring managers asking interview questions that may violate federal, state or local anti-discrimination laws. by Jeffrey Frankel, Vice President of Marketing for Traliant. there were 65.3

Hiring 140

Hiring Software Review Demand Advertising 140

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO.

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? How to they use the new distribution channels competitors have adopted? How do they make these transitions without alienating and losing their existing customers, distribution channels and partners? It meant pivoting an entire company – and its culture.

Framework 397

Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 397

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2024

How To Hire a Fractional CMO written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I go solo and dive into the trend in the marketing consultancy agency world that is: Fractional Chief Marketing Officers or CMOs. So I thought it might be interesting.

Hiring 66

Hiring Leadership Email Campaign 66

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Gaurav Bhalla, CEO of Knowledge Kinetics and author of “ Awakening a Leader’s Soul: Learnings Through Immortal Poems “ New times require new narratives… and leadership is no exception. Leadership is about action; leaders are hired to do something. Here’s why.

Leadership 140

Leadership Global Employee Government 140

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Laura has held leadership roles in product and operations with leading e-commerce companies, such as the NFL and Napster. 7:36] How is SMS as a preferred behavior channel now impacting your thinking as an email channel? [9:10] I have a lot of leadership folks in marketing and I always like to ask when I get that chance for you.

Email 92

Email SMS Marketing Channel 92

Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Many people think thought leadership is just another buzzword. But if Redshift by Autodesk , Johnson & Johnson , or MR PORTER’s Journal can successfully build brand awareness and become leaders in their area by creating thought leadership content, we need to stop and think again. What is a thought leadership brand?

Leadership 115

Leadership Audience Distribution Social Media 115

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. How do I measure success?

Metrics 271

Metrics Technical Review Leadership Framework 271

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2024

I and Michele highlight the process of crafting data-driven stories, from defining research objectives to repurposing findings across various channels for maximum impact. 04:35] Do you believe that sharing data builds thought leadership? [06:00] Questions I ask Michele Linn: [01:49] What is original research? [03:11]

Channel 65

Channel Audience B2B Social Media 65

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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.

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

by Ken Blanchard, author of the best selling “ The New One Minute Manager ” and the new “ Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results “ To me, servant leadership is the only way to guarantee great relationships and great results. Answered by Stephen M.

Leadership 100

Leadership Tennessee Cofounder Dallas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution.

Bandwidth 262

Bandwidth Distribution Agile Social Media 262

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

One of the greatest ways to do so is hiring a CMO or Chief Marketing Officer, an experienced, result-driven executive responsible for all your marketing efforts. But if we focus on strategy and implementation, the choices you’ll come across are hiring a marketing agency, a marketing coach, a marketing consultant, or a fractional CMO.

Fractional CTO 60

Fractional CTO Small Business Metrics Revenue 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases. Don’t hire your friends and family, don’t assume they can learn on the job, and don’t assume that cheap is best. To get competitive leadership, you can’t be an industry follower.

Advisory Board 240

Advisory Board Forecast Early Stage Product Development 240

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2022

Learn more about sales team leadership with these tips… 1. Learn to Sell Before Hiring. Essentially, getting involved and understanding how to sell can make you a much better manager and teach you sales team leadership skills. Keep Channels of Communication Open. Having sales team leadership means being flexible.

Sales 169

Sales Startup Leadership Hiring 169

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership — an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

Leadership 100

Leadership Hiring Salary Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. How do I measure success?

Startup 253

Startup Metrics Technical Review Leadership 253

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

The first step is to break the legacy silos and underground channels in the current organization, which usually means realigning executive leadership and roles. Integration of all groups is the key to an optimal customer experience, starting from the hiring process to pay for performance.

Customer 434

Customer Social Media Demand Aggregator 434

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start. Pick one section each week.

Fractional CTO 70

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

The proactive solution is to hire sparingly, and spend the time and effort needed to hire existing experts in all cases. Don’t hire your friends and family, don’t assume they can learn on the job, and don’t assume that cheap is best. To get competitive leadership, you can’t be an industry follower.

Advisory Board 232

Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 232

View from Seed

AUGUST 9, 2016

In our podcast series together, Reboot and NextView will focus on communication and leadership challenges facing startup founders specifically. The post Announcing NextView & Reboot’s Founder Communication & Leadership Series appeared first on NextView Ventures. Deal with it!”) Thanks for listening!

Leadership 120

Leadership Founder Cofounder Channel 120

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

If you want a sense of their content, an example is their “Epic Rap Battles of History” channel including Stephen Hawkins vs. Einstein , Napoleon Bonaparte vs. Napoleon Dynamite and my favorite Mr. T vs. Mr. Rogers [this last one NSFW]. Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs.

Technical Review 295

Technical Review Employee Germany Software Review 295

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2014

They take the time to groom capable employees into leadership roles for each and every company function. Executives should not be afraid to over-communicate the same message multiple times; providing the same information via different channels increases the likelihood that employees will actually remember what you tell them.

Cost 160

Cost Detroit Leadership Retention 160

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

You’d likely outsource or hire an expert to handle areas of your business you have no experience in, right? Pixar was at the forefront of 3-D animation and storytelling but had no knowledge of the movie industry or distribution channels. Share resources and expertise. Take the original partnership between Disney and Pixar for example.

Small Business 153

Small Business Reputation Partner Revenue 153

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. ABM is a full-court press to build powerful engagement with contacts on the channels that they’re most active. If your company isn’t properly aligned, work on opening channels of communication and data sharing. Make sales leaders part of your ABM leadership team. Do they get along?

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution.

Startup 120

Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 120

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2019

Similar to the longer form posts, try to think of sharing something meaningful that you want people seeing when they search for you—like why you started your company, what’s important to you about this business, or something specific about your leadership style. you’ll cross post across your various channels.

Social Media 113

Social Media Leadership Media Founder 113

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick. I don’t want to put all my trust just into one channel because that’s too risky.

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

Version One Ventures

JUNE 13, 2013

On one end of the spectrum, many start-ups think that great products sell themselves, while the other camp argues that it’s the channel and monetization that define a company’s success. Sales is more of an execution game, meaning a start-up can hire senior executives to shape and refine the sales and distribution strategy.

Sales 144

Sales Product CTO Hire Sales Cycle 144