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7 strategies for learning new skills

The Zapier Blog

If you've been wanting to learn a new skill or even strengthen existing ones, here are the seven tried-and-trued strategies I used to boost my expertise—and how you can, too. Now that we're on the same page, let's dive into the seven strategies you can use to learn a new skill or enhance the ones you already have.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it? And then I also think with references, founders are typically showing up with their 5 to 7 reference questions.

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How to Make a Tough Hiring Decision

ExactHire - Startups

When considering how to make a tough hiring decision, develop a data-driven hiring process that artfully mixes objectivity with sound intuitive judgement to choose the best candidate. Recruiters often find the internet brings mixed blessings in their search for top candidates. Stellar candidates can easily get lost in the mix.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I use Wordpress and am very happy. In this genre there is also Typepad although I find less people using it these days. They’re more light weight, easier to use and more social. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media.

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The Doom Loop

Entrepreneur's Handbook

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) It is trivially easy to spot a policy that uses confidence intervals rather than outcomes at the extreme.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. option grants). Managing Your Board. Meeting Schedule.

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

TechCrunch

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.