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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How are you today? Working sessions.

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The Rise of Fractional Executives

Reforge

Table of Contents What are Fractional Executives? The “Expertise as a Service” Spectrum How Fractional Executives Differ The Emerging Full-Time Fractional Executive Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of a Fractional Executive Why Companies Should Consider Hiring a Fractional Executive Fractional Executives are having a moment – and for good reason.

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The Product Founder’s Dilemma: Balancing Passion and Practicality

Entrepreneur's Handbook

They pour their hearts and souls into their work and often sacrifice everything else to pursue their vision. They may struggle with key aspects of business such as fundraising, marketing, and leadership, and, as a result, they either need too much time to launch or never launch at all.

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ViralGains’ Mulderrig on Revolutionizing Zero Party Data Generated Audience Creation for…

Jason Malki

Under his leadership, the company achieved 93% Y/Y revenue growth from 2020 to 2021. Prior to joining ViralGains in 2016, Mulderrig was National Sales Manager for OwnerIQ (acquired by Inmar) and Regional Sales Manager, Northeast for Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) What motivated you to launch your startup?

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Learnings of a CEO: Snapdocs’ Aaron King on navigating market cycles

Y Combinator

After we closed the round, our lead investor revealed how capital efficient we had been compared to our peers. Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Snapdocs is the leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry. Even after YC, we didn’t raise much immediately.

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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale

Y Combinator

Engineering is typically the function that grows fastest at a scaling startup. It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale. We’ve learned a lot about pace of execution in the past five years at Faire.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

That’s how much Invoca raised and we’re announcing it today. So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. $30 million. But the story started more than 6 months ago.

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