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Stop Hiring the Wrong People! (Or How to Hire for Growth, Not Skills)

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Would you have been 10X your size or growth rate with different people ? A growth mindset has to be part of every person you bring in. We treat hiring as an afterthought or a bother instead of the greatest chance to improve our organization and growth rate. Step one is defining “growth,” not some arbitrary growth “team.”

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

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Finally, day three covered all things customer success and growth. Pay them upfront so they don’t try to say X to get the money. Chris Goward: The Better Way to Optimize: How to Get Business-Impacting Insights from Your Growth Program. Design your experiments so you maximize for growth and insights. Image Credit.

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Top 5 Insights from Every Speaker of Digital Elite Camp 2018

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Hana Abaza: Thriving on Change, Driving Growth and Lessons Learned at Shopify. Chris Out: How to Build a Top 1% Growth Team 3 times faster than your Competition? The growth system is broken: product, marketing and sales are siloed. Growth hacking is not only top of the funnel. A high impact teams needs top skills.

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How to Use Smoke Tests to Validate Your Product or Feature Ideas

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There, a smoke test is the process of running test cases involving the “important functionality of a component or system, to ascertain if crucial functions of the software work correctly” Using this definition, smoke tests address questions like… Does the program run? Does clicking the key functionality do anything?

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Coaching Maturity Model: How to Take Your Coaching Culture from Good to Great

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There’s a person at your company that can… Make or break your growth round. I was responsible for onboarding hundreds of salespeople, training the entire BDR, AE, CS, and Support functions. 7) The Sales Enablement function is being asked to deliver visibility into the actual impact their coaching has on the team.

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Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures (Video + Transcript)

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Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. Monetization had 4X the impact compared to acquisition. If you value speed, you might up in for an Uber X.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

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We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. That doesn’t mean to say, you’re going to do away with the functions. Jay Snyder: We think about low touch to some degree as low impact and I think that paradigm shift can change.

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