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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Lab

In navigating the transition from founder-led sales to a structured approach, the pivotal question arises: when to hire a Sales Development Representative (SDR) or an Account Executive (AE) ? Leveraging perks and discounts within founder portals for such tools can optimize expenses. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). Misconceptions When I talk with founders and VCs there are often quite a few misconceptions around the choice of language and framework. Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby.

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Attend DivInc Demo Day on December 8

Austin Startup

More specifically, DivInc offers immersive programming, weekly “accelerate your growth” workshops led by notable tech founders and investors, pitch coaching and investment readiness. Attend their Fall 2017 Demo Day on Friday, December 8 to learn more about some of the founders who are participating in this program.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Many founders confuse the two as they both involve lots of numbers. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

Twyla’s Design Sprint Journey Douglas Ferguson , Founder and President, Voltage Control Main take-away — Don’t sweat a failure or a failed win. Think clearly of whether or not you have discovered significant authentic demand that can be met. Quickly and inexpensively as possible, test your theories by conducting interviews with 20–100 people.

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The art of hiring a data scientist

Version One Ventures

Most founders don’t know where to begin the search, who to look for – not to mention how to bring a data scientist on board so he or she can make valuable contributions to the company. Just because most academics work in Matlab or R, this doesn’t mean that they aren’t capable of translating their skills to Python, SQL or MongoDB.

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