Onboarding your first Sales Hire as an Entrepreneur
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…
The Close: New Rules for Hiring Executive Candidates
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.
When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about how to run a company, and immediate personal rapport. Yet …
Executive Hires: The Case for Extreme Referencing
Hiring a strong executive management team is one of the most proven ways to ensure startup success. Yet, hiring executives is a very different undertaking than hiring for other roles in your company and requires a different process, skill-set, and …
Having Success With Code Bootcamps: Where To Work As A Bootcamp Grad
The following is part three of a guest post series by Rob Gonzalez. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution …
Having Success With Code Bootcamps: Hiring Lessons For Employers
The following is part two of a guest post series by Rob Gonzalez. You can find part 1 here and part 3 here. Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution …
A Guide: Successfully Hiring Code Bootcamp Grads
The following is part 1 of a guest post series by Rob Gonzalez. You can find part 2 here and part 3 here. Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution …
12 Tactics to Perfect your Interviewing Process
“Talent is the limiting resource in everything we do right now.” If that observation rings true, you’re not alone. Despite every effort, most startups struggle to hire the best people.
My partners and I believe developing a competency in hiring …
How Startups Can Build a Recruiting Machine (Webinar)
The competition for hiring the best top talent in startups has never been higher. The best people are almost never on the market, so it’s imperative to develop recruiting processes to find and sell passive candidates. It may take months …
Recruiting – The 3rd Crucial Startup Skill
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 …
Hiring Scorecard Example
The following is an example of a Hiring Scorecard, which was put together as an example for a blog post on recruiting. It shows the scorecard that was used to hire a Matrix Partners Associate.
Mission
Lead proactive research, …
