Onboarding your first Sales Hire as an Entrepreneur
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In today’s blogpost I would like to introduce my partner for Zero to 100, Stephanie (Schatz) Friedman. Stephanie has been an executive in 3 successful startups and was most recently the SVP of Sales and Customer Success at Xamarin…
Recruiting – The 3rd Crucial Startup Skill
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I used to believe that there were two critical startup skills:
1. Building a great product that has clear product/market fit.
2. Building a sales and marketing machine.
I would argue with my partner at Matrix Partners, Antonio Rodriguez about …