Employee Hiring Part-Time VPE Sales 
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. VP of Sales, Monetate - Philadelphia, PA A finger hovers above a mouse button. and oh would it go well with the shoes it clicked on the last time it was here. Let’s face it, most successful businesses are—at their core—sales organizations.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 28, 2014
To give you a sense of how we’ll do that, we’re introducing you to three of our speakers—all of whom are appearing for the first time at The Lean Startup Conference, and all of whom have advice you can put to work today. Note that summer sale pricing for the conference ends on Monday night, so register now for the best deal possible.
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Version One Ventures
MAY 23, 2019
And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. And she has just about completed 60 to 140 ( Ada is hiring !). Unlike “traditional” departments such as Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, BD, Customer Support/Success, People is a relatively new leadership function.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. I know a change is going to come.
Steve Blank
JULY 11, 2017
The director had complained to his boss, the VP of Engineering, who admitted his hands were tied, as this was a “facilities matter,” and the VP of facilities reported to the CFO. So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town.
Ben's Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2010
The biggest difference between being a great functional manager and being a great general manager—and particularly a great CEO—is that as a general manager, you must hire and manage people who are far more competent at their jobs than you would be at their jobs. So, with no experience, how do you hire someone good? Probably none.
Cracking the Code
MAY 2, 2019
Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. That is a very powerful statement.
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